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University Daily Kansan, February 13, 1981
Architects design in discomfort
Page 11
By BOB MOEN Staff Reporter
Above a door that is off its hinges,
"LEEANENN" is inscribed in large
blue letters and written below it is
"What's on the other side?"
On the other side is Landley Annex, its inner walls covered with graffiti, its pipes exposed, its restrooms out of date and its lockers dented.
Here, KU architecture and urban design students work on projects and attend classes.
The acting dean, Dean Domer, said the building was of "World War II vintage." Stephen Glauben, associate professor, said it was "embarrassing" to wear a hat and tie. "I get over the irony of design classes being held in such a bad environment.
THE SCHOOL requested in its budget that Lindley Annex be renovated, but whether the building will be completely renovated has not been determined.
"There are improvements for Lindy Annex being considered and when it is considered what those might be, then we will determine what to do." Keith R. Lawton, director of facilities planning, said.
Architects have looked at the building, he said, but what will be done and how to fund it, has not been determined.
Domer stressed the need for space and the upgrading of the annex's environment.
"We must put 144 students in there next year," he said, "and currently that is almost impossible."
Marvin Hall, the main architecture and urban design building, is under renovation, forcing the school to divide its students and offices among Robinson Center, Lindley Annex, the Art and Design Building, Carruth.
O'Leary and Blake Annex. The Marvin renovation is expected to be completed sometime next fall.
WHILE ADMINISTRATORS decide what to do, the teachers and students must work under deplorable conditions.
Grabaw told it was hard to teach in the annex "especially when teaching architecture design and environment in school." And even then everything around you is deciancing."
He said it was a kind of "Catch 22" of architecture.
Another professor, Curtis Besinger,
said his classes were getting along, but
it was not an ideal working environment.
"It's a bad environment for design," Diane Chaney, Springfield, Mo., freshman, said.
She said, looking at the south wall behind her, that when it rained, the
water came in like a waterfall and flooded the floor.
Scott Ballard, Overland Park freshman, also said the water and mud coming through the floor were problems.
"It's liveable," he said, "you don't have to watch out if you drop stuff on the floor."
CHANEY SAID SHE expected a studio with her own desk and locker when she came to KU.
"If they had shown me this place," she said, rolling her eyes around the room, "right."
"They could make it the best building on campus," Ballard said of a renovation.
Jeff Hayes, president of the architecture and urban design student council, said Lindley Annex was a
pretty bad place, but it had the possibility of becoming a good place.
Grabow said that the building was "imminently salvageable" and that he asked another professor, Daniel Hobbin, had submitted a request for fixing the annex.
HE SAID THE INITIAL request called for $40,000 but was later changed to $25,000 or $30,000, the minimum amount for renovation.
"We need to put in eight studios by fall," he said, "and make it habitable."
"We need a nice studio so we can fix it up and be proud," Chaney said. "Now, people just don't care."
Her statement was magnified by three lines written on the wall of one room at the museum. The graffit read, "We Don't Care. We Don't Have to, We're Architects."
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