PCAD - The Artists and Architects Group (TAAG)

Exterior view of the Nuclear Reactor Building before demolition, Seattle, 2016; photo by Tyler Sprague

Exterior view of the UW Nuclear Reactor Building, Seattle, 2009; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Joe Mabel

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Wendell Harper Lovett, Spencer Moseley, Daniel Michener Streissguth, Gerard Rutgers Torrence, Gene Kapiton Zema

Active 1958-1961

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This group of University of Washington professors in art, architecture and engineering formed to design the new UW Nuclear Reactor Building in the late 1950s; it was completed in 1961.

PCAD id: 3517

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Nuclear Reactor Building, Seattle, WA	1961	Seattle	WA

Publications

"A teaching Reactor in a Glass Pavilion [University of Washington, Seattle]", Architectural Record, 134: 182-183, 1963-09. "Strong Lines Lead Students to Nuclear Learning", Architecture / West, 18-19, 12/1962. "Nuclear Reactor Building", Arts and Architecture, 80: 22-23, 01/1963. Beekman, David, Clarridge, Christine, "State court rules UW must follow city's landmarks law", Seattle Times, B1, B3, 2017-07-21. Perry, Nick, "It's hot, but is it historic?", Seattle Times, B1-B2, 2008-03-04.

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An historic hot house Fate of UW Campus in Hands of State Supreme Court Should the UW's Brutalist Nuclear Reactor Building be Saved? The Nuke Building could get nuked UW regents vote to demolish old reactor building listed as historic UW suing Seattle over control of historic campus buildings

The Artists and Architects Group (TAAG) (Partnership)

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