I was invited by the Emmanuel Lutheran Church Building Committee to discuss design issues related to adding on to an historic structure.

1. Emmanuel Lutheran Church Designing in an Historic Environment

4. “Different styles of architecture – asset” (West Central Plan)

5. “Encourage new construction designs to be complementary to the historic nature of the neighborhood.” (West Central Plan)

8. Looking old

9. An inability to interpret the history of the street

10. Structures indistinguishable as being of their own time (A new building or addition should seek to contribute to the resource’s future evolution just as the existing building shows its past development.)

11. Superior Ink Condos and Townhouses, NYC

12. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN

13. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN

14. St. Joe River Pump Station, Fort Wayne, IN

15. Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN

17. Crandal Public Library, Glen Falls, NY

18. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

19. Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

20. J.P. Morgan Library, NYC

21. Carl A. Fields Center, Princeton University, NJ

22. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME

23. Boston Public Library, Bryant Park, MA

24. Farnsworth Art Museum, Maine

25. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

26. Maine Historical Society Library, ME

27. Burke High School and Library, Boston, MA

28. Casa Mila, Barcelona, Spain

29. Rensselaer Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Sciences, NY

30. 475 Greenwich Street, NYC

31. Shaw Center for the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA

32. National Women’s Hall of Fame, NY

33. Prado Museum Annex, Madrid, Spain

34. Hayden Planetarium, NYC

35. Hearst Tower, NYC

36. The Porter House, NYC

37. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England

38. Victoria Hall, Staffordshire, G.B.

39. Le Carred’Art, Nimes, France

40. The Louvre, Paris, France

41. One Canal Street, Fort Wayne, IN

42. St. John’s Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN

43. Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN

44. Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN

45. Avoid “Jarring” Preservation philosophy suggests that successful additions be sufficiently distinct from the buildings to which they are being added to avoid confusion or false history. But the distinction need not be jarring; indeed, compatibility often demands otherwise.

46. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

47. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

48. Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C. In approving the wildly modern design for the Corcoran gallery addition, the Historic Preservation Division staff report noted that, “[W]hile the historic preservation guidelines stress … compatibility … it does not necessarily serve the purposes of preservation (to say nothing of design) to oppose attempts at very fresh, contemporary architectural expressions in the urban environment, especially when they can read from the exterior as essentially separate structures … Adding a watered-down classical background addition would be a legitimate alternative, but the present proposal is arguably as good an option, and undoubtedly a more interesting one.” In Re 500 17th Street, NW, (Corcoran Gallery) H.P.A. No. 02-284 (Sept. 19, 2002).