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Raymond
Viner Hall
Architecture
Raymond Viner Hall, son of famed Port
Allegany builder of Falling
Water Walter J.
Hall, was a master builder who believed that an embryonic architect should
enjoy direct acquaintanceship with plane and wood, trowell and mortar, pliers
and wire. His youthful but assiduous excursions into the exciting philosophies
of Wright, Sullivan, Ruskin, Locke, Whitman, and the spiritual Prophets were
complemented by basic apprenticeships in the major building trades. This atypical
exposure to both the poetic and prosaic conditioned his building concepts. Raymond
Viner's practice on an individual basis has required a staff varying from three
to nine, supplemented by outside consultants, as required by work in hand. His
isolated office location dictated an unusually complete complement of office
equipment and machines; including a private aircraft for speed and flexibility
of transportation. The principal areas he served include Pennsylvania, New York,
and the U. S. Virgin Islands. Since 1939, the beginning of his architectural
career, Raymond Viner used Radiant Panel Heating. Although it was relatively
unknown in 1939, panel heating was intriguing and the installation of 36 of
the first 54 systems in this country involved an emperical approach and a resolution
of required design formulae. These were followed by some enthusiastic additions
to the literature, including two technical manuals on panel heating and one
on snow melting. Ray's similar protestant attitude toward public school buildings
resulted in membership on a Governor's Advisory Committee for revising the obsolete
school planning code. He was involved with a wide variety of building types
with the major occupancy classifications of 121 residential, 27 educational,
23 commercial, and so on. His concepts and designs are original and admired,
while remaining subtly natural and prove the wealth of environmental variety
that is properly integrated with the broad stream of Man's effort in this direction.
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