A TURNING POINT FOR ARCHITECTURE IN NORTH CAROLINA

001 The Condoret House, entry, Chapel Hill, NC, 1965, Jon Condoret. 002 The Condoret House, interior, Chapel Hill, NC, 1965, Jon Condoret. 003 The Condoret House, Chapel Hill, NC, 1965, Jon Condoret. 004 The Larson House, Durham, NC, 1973, Jon Condoret. 005 The Larson House, Durham, NC, 1973, Jon Condoret. 006 The Larson House, entry Durham, NC, 1973, Jon Condoret.

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TURAN DUDA

BORN ANKARA, TURKEY, 1953 EDUCATION BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE, NCSU SCHOOL OF DESIGN, 1976 MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE, YALE UNIVERSITY, 1980 INFLUENCES PETER EISENMAN, CESAR PELLI, JAMES STIRLING, FRED KOETTER, DUNCAN STEWART, VINCE FOOTE, JOHN REUER, FRED EICHENBERG, JAY RANDLE

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Born in Ankara, Turkey, into an academic family, Turan Duda spent many of his formative years traveling through Europe, experiencing a wide variety of cultures and urban environments, which instilled in him a profound appreciation of and understanding for the role of public space in the architecture of urban environments. Duda earned his undergraduate degree in architecture at NCSU, where he studied under and was influenced by Duncan Stewart, Vince Foote, John Reuer, Fred Eichenberg, and Jay Randle from the College of Design. His time at NCSU was highly informative, with professors who, he noted, “provoked [stu dents] to think and develop our own unique process for designing everything from a chair to the universe.” Duda went on to study at Yale University under James Stirling, Fred Koetter, Peter Eisenman, and Cesar Pelli, who would later become a mentor. At Yale, Duda explains, he was able to genuinely explore ideas about how architecture can be made influential and meaningful.

Upon earning his Master of Architecture from Yale, Duda worked for Pelli, gaining a deep understanding of the skyscraper typology. At Pelli’s office, Duda designed numerous public buildings and spaces. His first assignment was the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center in New York, a glassand-steel public centerpiece for the six-million-square-foot office-building complex. This pivotal project prefigured the focus of his current work, in which he advocates for all large-scale projects to dedicate space for public use. Also while in Pelli’s office, Duda met Jeffrey Paine. After working together for fifteen years, the two left Pelli’s office for Durham and started Duda|Paine Architects in 1997. Now, after twenty years in practice, their work is found throughout the United States and Mexico and has received numerous design awards. Duda is an educator as well, teaching at Yale University, NCSU, and is a frequent speaker and reviewer at architecture schools around the country.

The architecture of Duda|Paine covers a wide range of typologies. For each project, they apply a specific singular approach while adhering to design ideas that are at once local and modern. Every design gains its unique identity and responds to its specific site and local culture. The work also adheres to modern principles, such as a belief that innovative solutions in architecture reside in exploring and challenging the essence of a building’s purpose or mission. Duda|Paine has completed a number of large-scale projects in North Carolina. Their most notable works include the Talley Student Union in Raleigh, the Gateway Village Technology Center in Charlotte, and the Trent Semans Center for Health Education at Duke University in Durham. These projects have in common a design sensitivity to both the large-scale urban context and the smaller-scale pedestrian experience.

In the Gateway Village Technology Center, public space is given a central design role. The classic courtyard form is fragmented and opened to public access from the street, a simple gesture that invites neighborhood interface. Exterior facades are clad in red brick, a regional preference that provides con tinuity and respects the site’s residential neighbors. Within the courtyard, glass and steel reflect the complex’s spirit of activating technology-based work.

The Duke University Faculty Club (2016) project looks at the movement and patterns of daily use and circulation. This 12,000-square-foot building includes a wide range of uses including recreational spaces, a fitness center, a snack bar, and other relaxation spaces. The wood-structured design uses an articulated spine to give order to the building. Slim, red cedar, vertical slats create a screen around the building expressing the verticality of surrounding pine trees and bringing a seamless path between inside and outside. Pine harvested from the adjacent Duke Forest covers the entry wall while a clear pressure-treated pine is used for shade structures both horizontally and verti cally throughout the building.

The public-focused Talley Student Union (2015) on NCSU’s campus is intended specifically for the busy college student looking for a space to socialize, rest, or study. The building creates a landmark and crossroad for the campus, a place where students can collect from all areas of the university. Duda studied pedestrian patterns and responded with an interactive and interdisciplinary design that met a need for NCSU’s identity. It is a “place-making” design that centralizes and organizes students coming from many different places. There are flexible spaces as well as structured formal spaces like the theater. Modern form, regional materials, and local attitudes come together to create a building that responds equally to context and climate. This Leadership in Engineering and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver-certified building redefines spatially what a student center means to individual students while creating a campus crossroads of iconic public spaces.

Turan Duda believes passionately about place-making and the important role that architects hold in inspiring the future. He also believes in the importance of travel and experiencing the world to better educate not only ourselves but also to bring these experiences back to the communities we live in to inspire others.

Cited: Duda, Turan. “Triangle Modern Architecture.” Interview at seminar taught by Bryan Bell, North Carolina State University, College of Design, February 2017.

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