Home  News and Events Mary's House, David Niland Architect, Tour Oct. 6, 5 to 8 pm
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Mary's House, David Niland Architect, Tour Oct. 6, 5 to 8 pm |
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Mary and David were great hosts and all of the CF3 members that came got a real treat. The Nilands were offered a donation to the charity of their choice but David only requested that we keep up the good work with CF3 and make the donation to the group.
I also got a chance to thank Dawn Schwartzman, of Enriching Designs, for their donation of the printing of our recent poster additions for the traveling display.
Photos by Chuck Lohre from the event Oct. 6, 2009.
Excerpt from CINCINNATI Magazine May 2001: "The Coach Retires," by Rosemary Seidner.
"Home, As Niland Sees It, 'No really great architect refuses to learn whateveer he could from hisotry,' says David L. Niland. 'All architects draw from historical architecture for ideas.' And though his houses, including his own home, 'Mary's House', shared with wife Mary Krohn Niland, certainly appears modern, the historic referneces are there, with subtle homage paid to Greek Temples, Palladian Villas of the Itailian Renaissance, and to the eraly moderns like Cobusier.
Typically Niland's structures are pristine and all-white, crisp interplays of geometric forms; acutely angled, symphonically symmetric studies that are a visual shock on the same landscape that their design celebrates. Sophisticated, their apparent simplicity belies the years of intense thought and planning that goes into each of these extraordinary homes, making them both works of art and comfortable living spaces that embrace the site, the outdoors and the needs of the client. Over the period of his practice, there is a noticeable consistancy to his designs. GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE remarks how Niland explores a wide variety of concerns with the same basic elements.
An East Side client who commissioned Niland to completely redesifn an existing 'cottage' on a spectacular wooded site says of the nine-year-old home with its vast windows, 'Every day in a house like this is a new day. Everything changes depending on how the light come in. You notice the time of day and you're more in tune with nature because you're looking at it all the time. It's open and honest and bright.
'I really don't want to have to go anywhere else."
From Jayne Merkel, Architecture in Cincinnati, 2006: "No Cincinnati citizen has had a greater impact on the city's physical environment in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and thereafter than David L. Niland. Although his own architectural work is largely confined to private houses, he served on the city's Urban Design Review Board throughout the period and was its most influential and articulate critic. A professor at the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning in charge of the sixth-year architecture program throughout this period, Niland's influence was so great that students used to call the final year the 'David Niland School of Architecture.' The only Cincinnati architect whose work was published internationally, he made important contributions to the art of architecture in the area of handicapped accessibility, an area that became important during this period as a result of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which affects almost every aspect of design. In two important houses, for the Irwin Hanensons in Bond Hill and for the Hugh Hawkins family in Indian Hill, Niland proved that aesthetics not only need not suffer but can actually be advanced in buildings designed for clients who depend on wheelchairs. In 2003, the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati gave him its Apple Award." |
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