The Regents Hill residential complex, also known as Regents Hall , is a residence hall located on the main campus of Washington State University in Pullman , Washington . Designed by Paul Thiry and completed in 1952, it was the first International Style building on the Washington State University campus. It is one of the many dormitories on the Washington State University campus available to undergraduates. Variously called "Regents Hall" and the "Regents Hill Halls," the complex (originally named the "New Women's Dormitory" and officially renamed the "Regents Hill Dormitories" on December 4, 1951), consists of two, four-story linked residential wings, McGregor Hall and Barnard Hall, and Stearns Hall—a free-standing dining hall and common space. Together with Scott Coman Hall just to its northwest (completed in 1958), the complex ushered in a new era of campus design featuring large, technologically sophisticated, light-filled concrete buildings for research, teaching, and residential life.
21-615: Regents Hill was also the first residential hall built following World War II at what was, in 1952, still called Washington State College (WSC). The college became Washington State University in 1959. Perched on a hilly rise at the northeastern edge of the campus, the 400-student residence was promoted as a "dream dormitory" for women and may have been the first residential hall in the Pacific Northwest with evident ties to European modernism. However, its interior connections to its local region and its Japanese-infused landscape reveals
42-831: A Modern Monument", 18 articles by Hubert-Jan Henket , Ton Idsinga, Wessel de Jonge , Jan Molema, Bruno Reichlin et al., Rotterdam 2010. (English Edition) Authority control databases [REDACTED] International VIAF National Germany United States France BnF data Artists ULAN RKD Artists People Netherlands Deutsche Biographie Other SNAC Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jan_Duiker&oldid=1250745605 " Categories : 1890 births 1935 deaths Architects from The Hague Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Zonnestraal (estate) The estate Zonnestraal
63-425: A loose "pin-wheel" design that created separation between patients' rooms, giving each of them the adequate amount of sunlight needed for therapy. The distribution of space in this manner created the ability for every patient to have a sunbathing balcony that was unobstructed by any other patient's room or building. The design of this architecture can be referred to as Heliotherapeutic Architecture ( Light therapy ) and
84-609: A small pond suggests the architect's travels to Asia in 1934 and his awareness of the Japanese work of Czech-American architect Antonin Raymond . An open, metal sculpture, built with the original design, still stands and adds to the overall effect. Several large rocks are scattered loosely about the landscape, yet their seemingly random placement might have been intentional to reveal the connections between eastern and western cultures; broadly suggestive of Washington state's geography on
105-587: Is a former sanatorium in Hilversum , the Netherlands . The building was designed by architects Jan Duiker Bernard Bijvoet and Jan Gerko Wiebenga, and is an example of the Nieuwe Bouwen . In 1995, the estate was submitted to UNESCO 's list of World Heritage Sites , but it was ultimately not listed. Hubert-Jan Henket (Bierman Henket Architecten) and Wessel de Jonge Architecten were awarded
126-1756: Is one of the most important representatives of the Modern movement,'Het Nieuwe Bouwen'. He is buried at Zorgvlied cemetery . Notable work [ edit ] Town houses in The Hague (1919-1922): J.v.Oldenbarneveldtlaan, Imhoffplein, Jacob Catslaan, Eikstraat, Ieplaan, Thomsonlaan, Thomsonplein etc. "Meer en Bosch", residential area with villas in The Hague - Kijkduin (1921-1923). Single-family house in Aalsmeer (1924-1925). " Zonnestraal ", sanatorium in Hilversum (project studies since 1919, construction 1926-1928). Nomination for UNESCO World Heritage . "Nirwana", residential building in The Hague (1928-1930). "Openluchtschool", open air school in Amsterdam -South (1929-1930). "Derde Ambachtschool", third technical school in The Hague - Scheveningen (1930-1931). "Cineac", cinema in Amsterdam (1934). "Winter", department store in Amsterdam (1934-1935), demolished. "Gooiland", hotel and theatre in Hilversum (1934-1936), finished by Bernard Bijvoet in 1936. Literature [ edit ] Jan Molema, "Jan Duiker", works and projects, preface by Kenneth Frampton , Barcelona 1991. (English/Spanish) Jan Molema et al., ir. Jan Duiker, constructeur in stuc en staal,Stichting BOUW, Rotterdam 1982. Suzy Leemans and Jan Molema, Bernard Bijvoet, cher maître van de Nederlandse architectuur, Vantilt, Nijmegen 2014 (English ed. JAPSAM ed. 2025) Paul Meurs and Marie-Therese van Thoor (eds.), " Zonnestraal Sanatorium - The History and Restoration of
147-556: Is organic, sat in a rolling terrain amidst a dense forest. With the construction of sanatoriums worldwide, the public began to see the importance of increases hygiene in their homes. The principle established in Zonnestraal, however, was repeated throughout the world. Also, it did not take long for architects to start designing homes following the spacious sanatoriums. These buildings include Sir Arthur Bliss ' house built in Surrey or
168-492: The "sun porch") with "flower garden and lawn." The magazine boasted of the building's common sewing and typing rooms and considered the design, overall, to mark a significant advance in campus housing because of its "home and small-group living." The residential complex, including Scott Coman Hall , was Thiry's first and only work at WSC—or in all of eastern Washington. A noted architect whose residential designs in Seattle were
189-662: The 2010 World Monuments Fund / Knoll Modernism Prize for their restoration of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium. Deitrich Neumann, from the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University , Providence, one of the members of the jury, stated "this careful restoration does full justice to the subtleties of the original building, its particular handling of light, and the seeming weightlessness of its composition. In this project, practical conservation and thorough scholarship reinforced each other in finding
210-506: The Pacific Rim. The design's relationship to the landscape as a whole—from its sensitive relationship to the ground (by raising it up on stilts) to its expansive windows permitting views from its hilly site—earned it a place among Architectural Forum 's five best college buildings in 1951. 46°44′4″N 117°9′46″W / 46.73444°N 117.16278°W / 46.73444; -117.16278 Jan Duiker From Misplaced Pages,
231-515: The architects were recommended by Hendrik Berlage . Bijvoet's first wife Jacoba Ezerman was closely related to the'grand man' of Zonnestraal, Jan van Zutphen. Bijvoet left the Netherlands in 1925, where after some time, he started to work in Paris with Pierre Chareau for projects such as Maison de Verre et al. Meanwhile he continued to collaborate with Duiker and returned in 1945. Jan Duiker
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#1732787846356252-527: The avoidance of superfluous decoration. The building is mostly made of transparent materials to allow as much light as possible to enter the patients' rooms. With this transparency, the building runs a large risk of overheating. However, the architects understood these risks and incorporated a cooling system in the building; something that was not common at this point in time. The surfaces that are not transparent are very sterile and smooth in appearance making very hygienic surroundings. The buildings are arranged in
273-437: The best approach to the preservation of one of modern architecture's most important buildings." Zonnestraal was built as a tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1920s and 1930s. The building features the classic design of the sanatorium, which focuses on as much open space and fresh air as possible. However, it still embodies the definition of the modern architecture by the immense amount of repetition, bold geometric shapes and
294-559: The building's overall hybridity within an otherwise monolithic postwar architecture palette beginning to take hold around the United States for public and private buildings alike. Regents Hill includes several notable design features. Connecting the growing college to mainstream trends in European architecture, the principal residential wings of Barnard and McGregor Halls feature an open-air stair-and-balcony tower that joins them at
315-451: The building's structural deterioration could not be solved by demolition and rebuilding. Instead new techniques of concrete repair had to be used. The presence of tuberculosis and the sanatorium played a large role in modern architecture. Though it was not the first building to feature a nearly all glass architecture, after the sanatorium period, the style of all glass buildings stayed a constant in modern architecture. It has been said that
336-494: The campus-facing corner, reminiscent of Dutch modernist Jan Duiker 's Open Air School in Amsterdam. The wings, too, feature strip windows suggestive of modern machinery and are elevated above the ground level by small reinforced concrete columns, resembling the "pilotis" of Le Corbusier's architectural experiments of the 1920s. Thiry had once met Le Corbusier , and likely would have been aware of his architectural theories. At
357-460: The famous Paimio Sanatorium in Finland by Alvar Aalto was greatly influenced by Zonnestraal; it is known that Aalto had visited Zonnestraal in 1928 just prior to the design of Paimio, and its organization of space is based on the same heliotropic arrangement of white concrete volumes, with a central building and off-shooting wings, but Zonnestraal is completely symmetrical in layout, whilst Paimio
378-603: The first to explicitly demonstrate European modernist ideas, Thiry would cement his legacy with his role as principal architect of the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle (1962). He also designed the Seattle Center Coliseum—now Climate Pledge Arena —for that exposition. Regents Hill features the university's only Japanese-influenced garden. Tucked behind McGregor Hall on a slope, a small, informal landscape of trees, shrubs, moss, stone pathways, and
399-465: The 💕 Dutch architect (1890–1935) [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Zonnestraal Sanatorium by Jan Duiker (and Bernard Bijvoet) in Hilversum , 1926-1928 Jan Duiker (also Johannes Duiker ) ( The Hague , 1 March 1890 – Amsterdam , 23 February 1935) was a Dutch architect. Partnership with Bernard Bijvoet from 1917 until 1935. For the commission of the Zonnestraal project
420-685: The same time, Thiry's design attempted to link the building to local conditions: the lobby of Stearns Hall, for example, features a sculptural spiral staircase, curved walls, and a wavy, stainless steel banister; originally, Stearns included carpets and furniture that Thiry considered "emblematic of the Palouse country" because their wavy designs suggested the rolling hills of the surrounding landscape. An alumni magazine celebrated McGregor Hall and Barnard Hall for their spacious, double rooms with picture windows and floors featuring kitchenettes, laundry units, and an outdoor lounge area (what later became known as
441-417: Was actually a short lived style in its purpose for therapy because of the discovery of the cure for tuberculosis. However, this style focuses on the engineering required to satisfy the patient's needs. In fact, the architects preferred to refer to themselves as building engineers. After abandonment in the 1980s the building was submitted to UNESCO 's list of World Heritage Sites . However, with this submittal,
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