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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 19, 1991
ONTHEHILL
Late Night at Lindley Annex
Second-year architecture students find isolation creates special bond
By Mauricio Rios Kansan staff writer
It is 3a.m.at Lindlev Annex
Fluorescent light shines out the windows of the one-floor building behind Lindlev Hall.
The sound of saws cutting and sandpaper smoothing wood mixes with a light melody from a radio on the floor.
To the rhythm of the music, students draw designs, cut wood and glue pieces of wood and paper.
Inside, Lindley Annex looks like a train station with its white pillars and triangular roof. It was built to be a temporary cafeteria in 1947.
Lindley Annex now accommodates second-year architecture students. There is not enough room at Marvin Hall, the School of Architecture building, says Stephen Grabow, professor of architecture and urban design.
Second-year students, who work almost every day and night in the wood-frame building, say they sometimes feel separated from third-, fourth- and fifth-year students who work in Marvin Hall. But the separation also creates a special bond among the 126 second-year students.
Long and late hours spent designing models and sharing work with other students make Lindley Annex a special place, some students say.
"I try to come here almost every day," says Aaron Altman, a second-year student. "There is no way to leave things for the night before."
Craig Patterson, a professional architect and a 1979 KU graduate, said he could not remember how many nights he stayed up working on projects, but he was sure there were plenty.
That has not changed, he said.
The time students spend with their classmates in the studio creates a "professional contract." Interaction with other peers is crucial, he said.
"You live there. Your family lives there, so to speak." he said.
Patterson said he had many fond memories from his second year, but the best memories came from working with his peers.
Grabow said it was traditional for students to stay up all night working on their projects.
"Everything takes a lot of time," he said. "It's very easy to stay up all night."
Second-year architecture students meticulously prepare models and drawings in their cluttered work space in Lindley Annex.
Grabow compared architecture to music.
"If you play slightly out of tune, everybody notices it." he said.
Architecture constantly oscillates between the microscopic and the macroscopic view, which is why details are crucial. Grabaw said.
Coming to studio can be pleasant and relaxing or it can be tedious and boring, especially when a student is drawing tiny bricks for two hours, Grabow said.
But nobody seems to complain
"I like working here because you are focused on your work." Altman says as he sands a piece of wood. He spreads glue on the piece and presses it firmly against a second piece. Then, he carefully puts the combination on top of his model building.
Rick Catron, another second-year student, says he often looks forward to spending time at the studio.
Catron stands up, walks around the table, looks at his model, bends down and looks at the model again, and then sits.
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The ritual is repeated two or three times
"I don't hate it," Catron says. "I don't think anybody hats it here."
Still, there is a desire to move into Marvin Hall
"It it's strange to be far away from the real building." Altman says, sitting on a bar stool as he glues a piece of bass wood to the roof of his new model.
The idea of moving into Marvin Hall sticks in the minds of several second-year students.
Dennis Domer,associated dean of the
"I glued my finger to this," he says.
"I hate glue."
School of Architecture, said the school would like to have an addition to Marvin Hall.
But because the University lacks financing, it cannot afford to build such an addition, he said.
"We believe that all of our students will be much better off working under the same roof," Domer said.
He said he did not think that Lindley Annex was a bad place by any means. But it is not optimum, he said.
Ian Hurst remembers how he looked forward to moving to Marvin Hall when he was a second-year student.
Now Hurst, a fourth-year student,
looks back at Lindley Annex with nostalgia.
He said he knew what his friends were doing. There was a social atmosphere, an atmosphere Hurst cannot easily find in his fourth-year studio, he said.
"There is no need for all these walls," he said, referring to the separate rooms in which students work on their projects.
The idea of mixing students from different years at Lindley Annex is constantly present in Hurst's mind.
"It's an idea we have discussed for a while," he said.
"We never hear from them, and they never hear from us."
Hurst said he would like to go back to Lindley Annex.
"I feel isolated uphere," he said.
"It will be nice to have more comfortable chairs," he said.
But Campbell said that studios at Marvin Hall were more modern and nicer than Lindley Annex.
"You get nice studios up there," he said about Marvin Hall. "It's something to look forward to."
Patterson also remembers how he looked forward to each new year.
"Architecture is order," he said. "There is a sense of progression. You look forward to moving from floor to floor."
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