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HISTORIC DESIGNATION SOUGHT FOR SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY BUILDING
Fashion and fun at this year's LJIFF SEE PAGE 16
Chef Bernard Guillas departs The Marine Room SEE PAGE 7
The Munk Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego.
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Munk Laboratory considered a classic of mid-century modern design By ROBERT MONROE | UCSD
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has nominated the Munk Laboratory, a post-and-beam structure at the center of its oceanfront campus, for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. Nominators cite the redwood building’s organic character and mid-century modern post-and-beam style but also its significance as a locale at which history-making scientific discoveries took place. The building, completed in 1963, is named for iconic geophysicist Walter Munk, who was the
first leader of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) center in La Jolla. Munk made fundamental observations of ocean waves, tidal forces, and acoustic properties that have influenced generations of scientists. Other researchers made significant contributions to plate tectonics theory working in the IGPP complex while still others created the first digital seismograph and ocean-bottom seismograph there. Carmen Pauli, an architect with San Diego’s Heritage Architecture and Planning, said the push for historic designation began last year when her firm
oversaw renovations to the complex. The building, she said, is special not just because of its association with Munk but also with its architect Lloyd Ruocco, one of the most prominent in San Diego in the mid-20th century. Other Ruocco buildings include the Design Center in the Bankers Hill neighborhood of San Diego, built in 1949. The Modern post-and-beam design, materials, and workmanship remain intact to date, exemplified through the redwood exterior, flat roof with overhanging eaves, and floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding See SCRIPPS, Page 9
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