a new studio offering comprehensive architectural services in the us piero lissoni is pleased to announce the establishment of lissoni architecture, a dedicated new york-based studio offering comprehensive architectural services for the united states.
led by renowned architect piero lissoni and ceo stefano giussani, the mercer street studios will now integrate interior and architectural expertise, providing a distinct and unique approach to projects.
previously focused on interior projects for the luxury hospitality and residential markets in the americas, lissoni new york has now expanded its operations to include lissoni architecture, marking a significant milestone in lissoni’s interdisciplinary history and presence in the us market. the new architecture studio aims to offer a 360-degree service, transforming the scale of lissoni’s operations in the us.
“here we are america, we’ve arrived! we can finally be architects here too!” remarked piero lissoni.
stefano giussani adds, “this achievement, eight years after the interiors studio was founded, represents both a remarkable milestone and a crucial challenge in this market. with new resources and boundless inspiration, we are poised to provide innovative solutions to our existing and future clients who share our design philosophy.”
the launch of lissoni architecture reinforces lissoni new york’s commitment to delivering exceptional design solutions, now encompassing both interiors and architecture.
chicago architect joesph (joe) fujikawa‘s home recently sold. this news was startling because i was in this house a long time ago. joe was my second client in my own newly formed business in the late 70s, my first client being chicago mayor michael (j) daley. joe, asked me to create an identity and an award for the world trade council in chicago. there i met the president of the association, robert s ingersoll. mr. ingersoll was chairman and chief executive of the chicago-based borg-warner corporation as well as former ambassador to japan. this began an enormous run of commercial real estate projects. and i picked up mentors in joe and jerry (johnson).
i asked joe if he loved art. he said, “ron i love it ! i just don’t have a place to hang it.”
fujikawa was a californian who studied architecture at illinois institute of technology in the 1940s and 1950s under ludwig mies van der rohe and then worked in mies’ chicago firm, becoming a partner.
after mies’ death in 1969, fujikawa was a partner in the successor firm, fujikawa conterato lohan associates. in the 1980s, fujikawa founded a new firm, fujikawa johnson. fujikawa contributed to mies’ crown hall at illinois tech and other buildings, and his later firm designed the chicago mercantile exchange on wacker drive, the metcalfe federal building in the loop and one illinois center, among others.
along with his wife, grace, and two children, fujikawa lived in hyde park until building this house around 1971, his son, steve fujikawa, told crain’s before putting the house on the market in october. the architect died in 2004, and grace fujikawa died in 2016.
steve fujikawa told crain’s that when the family moved in, he was in high school and didn’t quite apprehend that the house was anything special compared to the colonials and other traditional-looking homes in the neighborhood. he grew convinced when his friends at new trier township high school, about six blocks south, “always told me i lived in the coolest house.”
the house is the latest in a series of midcentury suburban homes to sell quickly this year. among the others are houses in riverwoods, indian head park and chicago heights.
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381 fairview avenue, winnetka, il 60093
$765,000
modernist trophy in east winnetka. brilliant architectural design and engineering by noted mies van der rohe associate joseph fujikawa built as his own private residence. open floor plan that is terrific for entertaining or peaceful enjoyment. metal floating stairs are reminiscent of mies’ arts club stairs, one of chicago’s famed design icons. large continuous balcony off bedrooms that overlook tiered garden and private backyard. built-in cabinetry, terrazzo floors and more.
above > lew with daughters l>r sharon & roberta circa early 90s courtesy greg samata
i can’t think of one designer who was practicing in the 60s thru 2000 or even later that didn’t know lew. he was engaged in everything designers were engaged in. he could have been a father figure for me. but let’s here it from renoun chicago designer greg samata who delivered the following at lew’s services.
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I loved Lew Asher!
A week ago Pat and I told him as he lay in his hospice bed. He smiled and heard us.
Thursday I will turn 72 years old. One of my first clients was Nuclear Data,it was 1976.
I was 26 years old and Lew Asher walked into my office and my life.
He was hired by the company to do the printing of the book I designed.
My first all color brochure!!!!
Ruth, his wife, was in the car. She would go to meetings with him and stay outside in the car.
Afterwards they would go to lunch or spend the afternoon together. He was a great father, husband and friend.
I would have sat in that car too. It was BMW 2002, silver, black top and red interior. It happened to be my all time favorite car at the time. He was instantly my hero!
He came into the office, I laid out my art boards to go over the job with him. Lew stood there quiet and very professional, looked at me with a serious tone and said “I can’t print this”.
I said “well why not” the young, not to be denied kid that I was.
It was my first lesson from Lew Asher, although I did not realize it at the time.
He said every book printed is multiples of four pages , you can’t bind 19 pages..
I knew nothing.
We went on to do volumes of work in multiples of four. After that he taught me
everything I know about the business, and he was the best at it.
Back then designers and service providers could put mark ups on goods and
products that you re-sold. It was common then but now no longer in favor.
And designers were always trying to get their own books and posters and marketing
materials printed. Of course there was never enough money.
So Lew and I created a system we called “put it on the wall”. Every job that was
marked up, the mark up would go “on the wall” and we used it to pay for personal projects.
My dad died in 1981. Pat and I were married 3 months before he died.
And Lew was passed the mantle to be my second father… It just happened.
A natural unspoken progression for two people who cared about each other.
I needed advice. Lew was there.
I needed to be talked off the ledge, constantly,…Lew was there
The issues ran from things that had nothing to do with printing.
Things like…honesty, loyalty, morality, family, friendships, business and yes even
sometimes ink on paper.
Together, professionally, we set a new standard in printing in Chicago, with
IPP Lithocolor doing the film back them, and Lew’s company Great Northern Design Printing
leading the way with all the best designers in the city.
Printing was taken to an art form and we never looked back.
Lew was generous, smart, sincere, honest to the end, and the best damn friend
and father anyone could have.
as richard rogers retires from the practice he founded more than 40 years ago, former colleague sarah gaventa considers his legacy.
richard rogers’ greatest achievements, to me, are not the buildings to which his name is attached – and whose design is often the work of others – but his contribution to the role and value of architecture in our society.
his highly effective activism, which is what it would be called now – lobbying and steering politicians and decision-makers, advocating for improving our cities and public spaces and the lives of citizens through quality design – seems far more important.
this activism applies to the practice too. he spotted and nurtured great talent; some who stayed to be his partners and others who went off to start their own successful practices – and whom he happily recommended for work.
above> millenium dome // below> 3 world trade
above> senedd cymru, welsh parliament // below> industrialized housing
above > chicago mayor lori lightfoot and illinois governor j.b. pritzker team up. lightfoot warns residents to expect the statewide stay-at-home order to extend ‘deep into april’ / ap photo
illinois is one of many states taking control of keeping their citizens safe. constantly in national news, pritzker and lightfoot have turned out to be outspoken leaders in person and on twitter. president donald trump takes heed, as he does with new york governor andrew cuomo and califormia governor gavin newsom. along with lightfoot, another strong mayor is san francisco’s london breed.
above > 13 december 2018 / governor-elect j.b. pritzker, center, talks with president donald trump during a meeting with newly elected governors in the cabinet room of the white house. gubernatorial fashion in illinois gets a lot of attention. during his first six weeks in office, pritzker’s appointment calendar includes 70 “attire” recommendations for events as varied as bill signings, a state police officer’s funeral, a white house dinner, surveying flood damage, and cocktails with legislators at the illinois governor’s mansion / ap photo/evan vucci
president donald trump has the biggest megaphone, but it’s governors and local officials who will decide when to begin reopening their economies after shuttering them to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. the constitution largely gives states the authority to regulate their own affairs.
trump has set easter, 12 april, as a goal for reopening the u.s. economy, though he also has said he will be guided by his public health experts. unless americans continue to dramatically limit social interaction by staying home from work and isolating themselves, the number of infections will overwhelm the health care system, many health experts have warned.
some questions and answers about the legal authority for shutting and reopening the u.s. economy.
q > does the president have the authority to override state and local orders?
a > no. under our constitutional system, states have the power and responsibility for maintaining public order and safety. as we’ve seen since the outbreak began, decisions about limiting social interactions by ordering people to shelter in place, closing businesses and shutting schools are being made by governors and local officials. those same officials will make the call about when to ease up, no matter the vehemence of trump’s exhortation to have businesses “opened up and just raring to go by easter.” trump’s comments “are just advisory,” said john malcolm of the heritage foundation.
maryland governor larry hogan, has ordered all nonessential businesses and schools to close, and he said thursday on twitter that he does not see a quick end to the restrictions. “this battle is going to be much harder, take much longer, and be much worse than almost anyone comprehends. we have never faced anything like this ever before, and i continue to urge the people of our state to stay in place at home and stay safe,” hogan wrote.
q > but the president has set a 15-day period in which all americans are being urged to drastically scale back their public activities. doesn’t that amount to a national order?
a > no. the guidelines are voluntary, and they underscore the limits on trump’s powers. he can use daily briefings and his twitter account to try to shape public opinion, and he has not been reluctant to do so. “when donald trump selects a narrative and begins to advance it, especially through his twitter account, it has a remarkable effect on those who trust him. the more the president speaks against more robust forms of social distancing (such as shelter-in-place rules), the more noncompliance we are likely to see on the ground level from citizens sympathetic to the president,” robert chesney, a university of texas law professor wrote on the lawfare blog.
q > still, trump has invoked some federal laws to address the virus outbreak, hasn’t he?
a > yes, he has. the stafford act allows the expenditure of tens of billions of dollars in emergency assistance. the defense production act allows the president to direct private companies to produce goods or acquire raw materials. trump has yet to actually order companies to do anything, over the objection of some local officials who have a desperate need for ventilators, masks and other equipment. but trump can only assert powers that congress has specifically given him. “there are real limits on the president and the federal government when it comes to domestic affairs,” berkeley law professor john yoo said on a recent federalist society conference call. at the same time, the federal government has the power, under laws aimed at preventing the spread of communicable diseases, to quarantine people when they arrive in the united states and travel between states.
q > is it clear that state and local governments have authority to impose the severe restrictions we’ve seen?
a > lawsuits already are challenging state actions on religious grounds and as seizures of property for which the government must pay compensation. but for more than 100 years, the supreme court has upheld states’ robust use of their authority, even when it restricts people’s freedoms. in 1905, the court rejected a massachusetts pastor’s complaint that he should not be forced to get a smallpox vaccine or pay a fine, malcolm noted.
hayward robert blake. 94, born in west haven, connecticut. he died of natural causes on 13 march 2020.
husband of simone louise (nee roussy), for 58 years; loving father of paul (kim), christopher (anita), and yvonne (brian); proud grandfather to andrew, meredith, anaïs, anikó, hayward, tawny, and kiera. hayward met his wife in france during wwii while serving as a sergeant in the signal corps., after which he studied design at institutions including, the cambridge school of design and illinois institute of design. he began working in the early 1950s as a package designer in new york city and later moved to chicago where he worked with raymond lowey, the container corporation, sears, ecko-alcoa, and low’s, inc. in 1961 he founded, hayward blake and co., and in 1967 incorporated with jack weiss. together they worked with designers in the design partnership which served as a model for similar collaborative efforts elsewhere. his design projects included the signage system for o’hare airport, identity designs for wait radio, titles for the film bang the drum slowly, catalog design for the block gallery, and identity program for the newspaper the rapid city journal. hayward taught at northwestern university’s, medill school of journalism, and lectured and judged at communication exhibitions nationwide. he was an active member of the 27 chicago designers, the american institute of graphic arts (fellow), society of typographic arts (president), the caxton club (president), design evanston, evanston art center (board member), and the porsche club of america. hayward was an amateur race car driver, loved sailing, scuba diving and was an avid squash player. the words above are provided by hayward’s son, christopher a designer in his own right, currently an adjunct professor in the interactive arts and media department at columbia college chicago.
i owe a great deal to hayward. he was responsible for my first chicago design hire at his firm, the design partnership. an advocate of thinking differently his concepts were engaging and caught your eye. his penchant for details was no secret as everyone knew he always carried a small screwdriver lining up screws in the lighting fixtures, something i tend to do myself now. in his mid-80s he was still working the audience at local design happenings. regarding the amateur race car driver thing, he looked and played the part.
memorial services will be announced at a later date.
above > galileo on trial was forced to renounce his beliefs in copernican theory and the motion of the earth.
summoned to rome by the inquisition on september 23 1632, he was put on trial and following the verdict of the inquisition ( 13 february 1633) was forced to renounce his beliefs in copernican theory and the motion of the earth. the original verdict condemned him to life in prison, but was amended the following day to house arrest, a sentence that remained in force until his death. his book (dialogues) was banned by the catholic church and only in the 1990s did the church recant its condemnation of galileo.
galileo galilei’s observations strengthened his belief in copernicus’ theory that earth and all other planets revolve around the sun. most people in galileo’s time believed that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun and planets revolved around it.
above >thunberg skipping school in august 2018, sitting in front of swedish parliament to demand climate action / michael campanella—getty images
starting in august 2018, a swedish 15-year-old greta thunberg began a global movement by skipping school. she did so by setting up shop in front of the swedish parliament holding a sign painted in black letters on a white background that read skolstrejk för klimatet: “school strike for climate.” her question for adults, for people in charge: if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should i care about my future in school?
by now you know the time magazine 2019 person of the year is greta thunberg. the runners up were: hong kong protesters (won the readers poll), nancy pelosi, donald trump, the whistleblower in trump-ukraine scandal.
winning does come with controversy. but we won’t talk about that at this time. here.
on the first day of her climate strike, thunberg sat alone. she posted about her strike on social media, and a few journalists came by to talk to her, but she spent day one alone.
on day two a stranger joined her. “that was a big step, from one to two,” she recalls. “this is not about me striking; this is now us striking from school.” within a couple of days, a handful more joined in. then they became a group – from one person pushing back became two, then 10, then 50, then hundreds. then thousands
by september, enough people had joined her climate strike in stockholm that she announced she would continue every friday until sweden aligned with the paris agreement.
at the end of 2018, tens of thousands of students across europe began skipping school on fridays to protest their own leaders’ inaction. in january, 35,000 schoolchildren protested in belgium following thunberg’s example. the movement struck a chord. when a belgian environmental minister insulted the strikers, a public outcry forced her to resign.
a year later in september 2019, the climate strikes had spread beyond northern europe. in london, 100,000 swarmed the streets near westminster abbey. in new york city, 250,000 reportedly marched in battery park and outside city hall. in germany, a total of 1.4 million people took to the streets, with thousands flooding the brandenburg gate in berlin and marching in nearly 600 other cities and towns across the country.
on 20-27 september 2019, a global climate strike brought an estimated 4 million people of all ages to protest. their signs told a story. in london: the world is hotter than young leonardo dicaprio. in turkey: every disaster movie starts with a scientist being ignored. in new york: the dinosaurs thought they had time, too. hundreds carried images of thunberg or painted her quotes onto poster boards. make the world greta again became a rallying cry. the 20 september protests were likely the largest climate strikes in world history. more than 2,000 scientists in 40 countries pledged to support the strikes.
in a little more than a year, one frightened, angry, defiant 16-year-old, became a game-changer, became an icon who brought climate to the forefront. after noticing a hundredfold increase in its usage, lexicographers at collins dictionary named thunberg’s pioneering idea, climate strike, the word of the year.
bravo greta !
greta is the z generation – ages 7 to 22. in 2050 she will be 46. in 2080 grandchildren will be 25. according to a december amnesty international survey, young people in 22 countries identified climate change as the most important issue facing the world. they know how much adults are failing them.
above> greta thunberg smiles during a press conference / lito lizana/sopa images/shutterstock
[ time person of the year ] the tradition of selecting a man of the year began in 1927, with time editors contemplating the news makers of the years. the idea was also an attempt to remedy the editorial embarrassment earlier that year of not having aviator charles lindbergh (see guinnes world records below) on its cover following his historic trans-atlantic flight. by the end of the year, it was decided that a cover story featuring lindbergh as the man of the year would serve both purposes.
in 1999, the title was changed to person of the year. since the list began, every serving president of the united states has been a man or person of the year at least once with the exceptions of calvin coolidge, herbert hoover, and gerald ford.
record-breaking american aviator charles lindbergh became the first person to be named time man of the year in 1927
[ guinness world records ] thunberg takes the crown of youngest time person of the year from us aviator charles lindbergh (1902–74). he received the accolade at the age of 25 years 332 days as of the 2 jan 1928 issue.
[ quotables ]
“we can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow, that is all we are saying.” – greta
“i want you to panic, i want you to feel the fear i feel every day. and then i want you to act.” – greta to the annual convention of ceos and world leaders at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland, in january.
“people are underestimating the force of angry kids. we are angry and frustrated, and that is because of good reason. if they want us to stop being angry then maybe they should stop making us angry.” – greta
“for sounding the alarm about humanity’s predatory relationship with the only home we have, for bringing to a fragmented world a voice that transcends backgrounds and borders, for showing us all what it might look like when a new generation leads, greta thunberg is time’s 2019 ‘person of the year.” – time’s editor-in-chief edward felsenthal penned a column explaining the choice.
brilliant decision for @time to choose @gretathunberg as its person of the year. greta embodies the moral authority of the youth activist movement demanding that we act immediately to solve the climate crisis. she is an inspiration to me and to people across the world. – @algore
“don’t let anyone dim your light, like the girls i’ve met in vietnam and all over the world, you have so much to offer us all.” – the former first lady michelle obama wrote on twitter
“so ridiculous,” “greta must work on her anger management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! chill greta, chill!” ~ donald j. trump
when i was old enough to begin an understanding of the world, my hometown was burned down. across the shore, the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima, so i grew up near ground zero. it was in complete ruins, and there was no architecture, no buildings and not even a city. only barracks and shelters surrounded me. so, my first experience of architecture was the void of architecture, and i began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities.
[ jury citation ]
arata isozaki, born in oita, island of kyushu, japan is known as a versatile, influential, and truly international architect. setting up his own practice in the 1960s isozaki became the first japanese architect to forge a deep and long-lasting relationship between east and west. possessing a profound knowledge of architectural history and theory, and embracing the avant-garde, he never merely replicated the status quo but challenged it. and in his search for meaningful architecture, he created buildings of great quality that to this day defy categorizations, reflect his constant evolution, and are always fresh in their approach.
over the more than 50 years isozaki has been practicing, he has had an impact on world architecture, through his works, writings, exhibitions, the organization of important conferences and participation on competition juries. he has supported many young architects from across the globe to have a chance to realize their potential. in such endeavors as the fukuoka nexus world housing project (1988-1991) or toyama prefecture’s machi-no-kao (“face of the city”) program (1991-1999) he invited young international architects to develop catalytic projects in japan.
isozaki’s oeuvre has been described as heterogeneous and encompasses descriptions from vernacular to high tech. what is patently clear is that he has not been following trends but forging his own path. an early exploration of a new vision for the city is seen in the project city in the air, from the early 1960s, for a multilayered city which hovers over the traditional city. his first works in his home country of japan include a masterpiece of japanese brutalism, the oita prefectural library (1966). such projects as the kitakyushu central library (1974) and the gunma prefectural museum of modern art, opened in 1974, reveal an exploration of a more personal architecture. in the museum, the clear geometry of the cube reflects his fascination with void and grid as it seeks to attain an equilibrium in which to display changing works of art.
arata isozaki’s reach and repertoire have expanded over the years to include projects of many scales and typologies and in numerous countries. in the united states, isozaki is probably most well-known for undertaking the museum of contemporary art in los angeles (1986) and the team disney building in florida (1991). the first is a study of the vault or what he calls “rhetoric of the cylinder” and the second is evidenced by a more playful use of shapes with a postmodern flair.
above> museum of contemporary art, los angeles / 1981-86 / photo – yasuhiro ishimoto // bottom> team disney building, orlando / 1987-90
many know his work through such significant buildings as the sant jordi stadium for the 1992 olympics in barcelona. he has undertaken exemplary works in china such as the cafa (china central academy of fine arts) art museum in beijing opened in 2008 or the shenzhen cultural center (2007) in shenzhen, guangdong.
isozaki has shown extraordinary dynamism in recent years with such works as qatar convention center (2011), the traveling inflatable ark nova (2013) designed with anish kapoor for regions in japan affected by the 2011 tsunami, and the powerful yet elegant allianz tower in milan, opened in 2018. once again, it is a testimony to his ability to understand the context in all its complexity and to create a remarkable, well-crafted and inspiring building that is successful from city scale to the interior spaces.
above> qatar national convention centre, qatar / 2004-11 /// below> allianz tower, milan / 2003-14
clearly, he is one of the most influential figures in contemporary world architecture on a constant search, not afraid to change and try new ideas. his architecture rests on profound understanding, not only of architecture but also of philosophy, history, theory and culture. he has brought together east and west, not through mimicry or as a collage, but through the forging of new paths. he has set an example of generosity as he supports other architects and encourages them in competitions or through collaborative works. for all these reasons, the pritzker architecture prize jury has selected arata isozaki the 2019 laureate.
[ jury members ] stephen breyer (chair)
u.s. supreme court justice
washington, dc
andré aranha corrêa do lago
architectural critic, curator, and brazilian ambassador to india tokyo, japan
richard rogers
architect and 2007 pritzker laureate
london, england
sejima kazuyo
architect and 2010 pritzker laureate
tokyo, japan
benedetta tagliabue
architect and educator
barcelona, spain
ratan n. tata
chairman of tata trusts
mumbai, india
wang shu
architect, educator and 2012 pritzker laureate hangzhou, china
martha thorne (executive director)
dean, ie school of architecture & design madrid, spain
[ biography ]
2019 laureate arata isozaki was born in oita, island of kyushu, japan in 1931 prior to the onset of world war ii. he was 14 years old when hiroshima and nagasaki were bombed, and builds with the theory that while buildings are transitory, they should please the senses of the users presently passing through and around them.
“when i was old enough to begin an understanding of the world, my hometown was burned down. across the shore, the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima, so i grew up near ground zero. it was in complete ruins, and there was no architecture, no buildings and not even a city. only barracks and shelters surrounded me. so, my first experience of architecture was the void of architecture, and i began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities.”
isozaki graduated from the department of architecture in the faculty of engineering at the university of tokyo in 1954, and began his career with an apprenticeship under the guidance of 1987 pritzker prize laureate kenzo tange.
he established arata isozaki & associates in 1963, after the allied occupation when japan had regained its sovereignty and was seeking physical rebuilding amidst political, economic and cultural uncertainty from the decimation of wwii. “in order to find the most appropriate way to solve these problems, i could not dwell upon a single style. change became constant. paradoxically, this came to be my own style.”
his work began locally, with many buildings in his hometown and fukuoka, and quickly expanded to gunma, osaka and tokyo. in the 1960s, isozaki envisioned city in the air (1962 tokyo, japan), a futuristic plan for shinjuku consisting of elevated layers of buildings, residences and transportation suspended above the aging city below, in response to the rapid rate of urbanization. although it was unrealized, isozaki went on to plan cities in accelerating economies, with his most recent developments in china and the middle east.
isozaki demonstrated a worldwide vision that was ahead of his time and facilitated a dialogue between east and west. he emerged as an international leader in architecture in the 1980s,
through his critical writings, and as a jury member for important architecture competitions, he has played a significant role in bringing to realization the concepts of young architects around the world. six decades of his work include philosophy, visual art, design, music, films, and plays, alongside his iconic buildings.
isozaki has served as a visiting professor at several u.s. universities including: columbia university, harvard university and yale university.
[ about the pritzker architecture prize ]
the pritzker architecture prize was founded in 1979 by the late jay a. pritzker and his wife, cindy. its purpose is to honor annually a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.
vogele died at his home in burr ridge, illinois, on friday morning. he was 89.
visionary chicago design entrepreneur and mentor, robert vogele, is known for founding two of chicago’s most significant design consultancies. he’s remembered as challenging a long list of designers, business leaders, and anyone who would listen, to consider ‘big d’ design a valuable source of inspiration and goal attainment.
bob was gifted with an eye for creative talent, passion, and focus. he believed that the average person operated at less than 40% efficiency and his goal was to be twice as efficient. he would leave for the office at 4am and leave at 3p to avoid traffic. as much as he loved design though, he spent most of his time finding others to make things happen…a more efficient process to spread big d.
arguably a defining moment for bob was found at the first international design conference in aspen (1951) themed design as a function of management. designer ralph eckerstom (a unimark international founder) had hired vogele in 1949 while bob was studying advertising and graphic design at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign. eckerstrom ran the school’s press department and the two of them went to the conference. design’s relationship with management became a cornerstone of bob’s professional career.
in chicago, vogele’s professional and managerial presence was evident. in 1974 bob and patrick whitney founded the design foundation to promote chicago as a design capital and they collaborated with the international icograda congress to create a conference themed, design that works!
again, wanting a more national platform, vogele lobbied for installing an american institute of graphic arts (aiga) presence in chicago which did come about in 1986, under bart crosby and wendy pressley-jacobs. between 87-90 while i was president aiga restructured creating official chapters and we became aiga chicago. vogele served on both its board of directors and advisory board.
in 1989, the society of typographic arts (sta) found bob moving forces again to rename and reposition the sta to the american center for design (acd), essentially turning a local organization into a national. the acd shut down in 2002 and one wonders today if the internet could have saved it. and the sta is back in business again.
among his many professional achievements he was recently awarded the graphic design community’s most prestigious award, the 2011 aiga medal for being a business strategist and visionary.
bob also passionately loved architecture and art. he and his wife ruth were avid collectors of modern, native american, and folk art.
since 2002, bob among others, helped me create designapplause. he has been an official advisor since 2004.
he is survived by his beloved wife of 65 years ruth gorman vogele; his children and their spouses tom and jennifer vogele, mark and lisa vogele, bruce and tammy vogele, and nancy vogele and lynn feenan; his grandchildren, britta, margit, patrick, taylor, ross, adam, felix, mikkel, lucas, alex, ariel, and lily; and his great-grandchildren, maddox, bo, warren, jude, aidan, olivia, amelie, and link.
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The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
