March 10, 2014

Gould Hall will house new studios, galleries

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The second floor will have secure gallery space.

The University of Washington College of Built Environments will repurpose the corridor at the east end of Gould Hall into instructional and gallery space that will be called Gould Pavilion.

A 1,000-square-foot studio classroom will be added on the ground floor of the double height corridor and 1,300 square feet of secure gallery space will go on the second floor.

Also, the northeast entrance to Gould Hall will be transformed into the main entrance to the building and pavilion.

The Miller Hull Partnership is designing the $1.4 million complex. Construction is slated to begin in June.

The College of Built Environments is in Gould and Architecture halls on the Seattle campus.

It is made up of the departments of architecture, landscape architecture, construction management, and urban design and planning.

The college hopes the pavilion will give it more visibility and be an incubator for ideas across disciplines, with lectures, research, studios, seminars and exhibits held there.

Edgar S. Gonzalez, assistant dean for advancement and external relations for the college, said it has not had the secure gallery space needed to attract traveling exhibits and share the work of students, faculty and alumni. Additionally, he said, the classroom will give the college flexible educational space that can showcase research.

The new spaces will be named for local people prominent in architecture and urban planning.

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Gallery space will overlook the street.

The northeast entrance will be named after Myer (Mike) Wolfe, a UW urban planning faculty member from 1949 to 1989, dean of the college from 1979 to 1982, and a founder of urban design program at the university.

The classroom will be named for David McKinley and his wife, Jeannette McKinley. David McKinley is an alumnus of the college who worked in Seattle as an architect, and with his partners at Kirk Wallace McKinley helped establish the region's modern design directions, the college said.

The north gallery will be named after Jim Olson of Olson Kundig Architects of Seattle. The UW alumnus practices around the world. He is known for designing houses, but he has also designed museums, religious spaces, and commercial buildings.

The south gallery will be named after George Suyama of Seattle firm Suyama Peterson Deguchi. The college said the UW alumnus “forges an evolving architecture that reveres nature, takes cues from context, and dissolves the division between architecture and applied art.”

The center gallery will be named for UW graduates Norman Johnston and Jane Hastings. Johnston is an emeritus faculty member of three departments in the College of Built Environments, a former associate dean and former chair of the architecture department.

Hastings was the only female architecture student in her class in 1952 and was the eighth woman architect licensed by Washington. She was an architect in Seattle and the first woman chancellor of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.

The college is $130,000 short of its fundraising goal for the pavilion. Go to http://tiny.cc/sx6ccx if you want to donate.