Robert Mosher
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Robert Mosher was an apprentice
to Frank Lloyd Wright
who worked on Fallingwater
, and is mentioned in Wright's diary's of Fallingwater. [NOTE: there are TWO Robert Moshers. One worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, ONLY, the other designed the Coronado Bridge, among other buildings and structures, and met with Frank Lloyd Wright when working with House Beautiful Magazine.
"Every material has its own eloquent message, its own lyrical song, and no one has made them sing so beautifully as Frank Lloyd Wright."
He is also known for his own works which include the San Diego-Coronado Bridge
on which he was the principal architect .
Mosher also was the architect of the University of California, San Diego
's John Muir College
which was built in the late 1960s, and whose powerful concrete architecture represents the focal point of San Diego's modernist
design heritage, which has won a recently won a $100,000 grant from the Getty Foundation
to protect its distinctive buildings.
"Even at a relatively young age of 40, the college still finds it necessary to devise a program to protect its signature cluster of buildings and connecting courtyards, which have strong ties to local architects," said Susan Smith, Muir College provost.
Smith said the grant will allow UCSD to hire an outside consultant to survey Muir College's architectural heritage and to devise initial steps for a long-term preservation plan. The award is part of a wider Getty program focused on preservation of important architecture at colleges and universities nationwide.
San Diego-Coronado Bridge
Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or protégés build their careers from apprenticeships...
to Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
who worked on Fallingwater
Fallingwater
Fallingwater or Kaufmann Residence is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh...
, and is mentioned in Wright's diary's of Fallingwater. [NOTE: there are TWO Robert Moshers. One worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, ONLY, the other designed the Coronado Bridge, among other buildings and structures, and met with Frank Lloyd Wright when working with House Beautiful Magazine.
"Every material has its own eloquent message, its own lyrical song, and no one has made them sing so beautifully as Frank Lloyd Wright."
He is also known for his own works which include the San Diego-Coronado Bridge
San Diego-Coronado Bridge
The San Diego-Coronado Bridge, locally referred to as the Coronado Bridge, is a "prestressed concrete/steel" girder bridge, crossing over San Diego Bay in the United States, linking San Diego with Coronado, California...
on which he was the principal architect .
Mosher also was the architect of the University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...
's John Muir College
John Muir College
John Muir College is one of the six undergraduate colleges at the University of California, San Diego . The college is named after John Muir, the environmentalist and founder of the Sierra Club. It has a humanitarian emphasis focused on the "spirit of self-sufficiency and individual choice"...
which was built in the late 1960s, and whose powerful concrete architecture represents the focal point of San Diego's modernist
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
design heritage, which has won a recently won a $100,000 grant from the Getty Foundation
Getty Foundation
The Getty Foundation, based in Los Angeles, California, at the Getty Center, awards grants for "the understanding and preservation of the visual arts". In the past, it funded the Getty Leadership Institute for "current and future museum leaders", which is now at Claremont Graduate University. Its...
to protect its distinctive buildings.
"Even at a relatively young age of 40, the college still finds it necessary to devise a program to protect its signature cluster of buildings and connecting courtyards, which have strong ties to local architects," said Susan Smith, Muir College provost.
Smith said the grant will allow UCSD to hire an outside consultant to survey Muir College's architectural heritage and to devise initial steps for a long-term preservation plan. The award is part of a wider Getty program focused on preservation of important architecture at colleges and universities nationwide.
San Diego-Coronado Bridge
- Principal architect: Robert Mosher
- Opened on August 3, 1969
- In 1970, it won the Most Beautiful Bridge Award from the American Institute of ConstructionAmerican Institute of ConstructorsThe ' , is a not-for-profit 501 trade organization founded in 1969 for the advancement of professionalism and ethics in the Construction industry....
- 2.12 miles (11,179 feet) long
- cost $50 million to build
- retrofitting will cost $70–150 million
- 20,000 tons of steel (13,000 tons in structural steel and 7,000 in reinforcing steelRebarA rebar , also known as reinforcing steel, reinforcement steel, rerod, or a deformed bar, is a common steel bar, and is commonly used as a tensioning device in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures holding the concrete in compression...
) - 94,000 cubic yards of concrete
- 900,000 cubic yards of dredged fill
- some caissonsCaisson (engineering)In geotechnical engineering, a caisson is a retaining, watertight structure used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, or for the repair of ships. These are constructed such that the water can be pumped out, keeping the working...
for the towers were drilled and blasted 100 feet into the bed of the San Diego BaySan Diego BaySan Diego Bay is a natural harbor and deepwater port adjacent to San Diego, California. It is 12 mi/19 km long, 1 mi/1.6 km–3 mi/4.8 km wide... - 4.67% grade from CoronadoCoronado, CaliforniaCoronado, also known as Coronado Island, is an affluent resort city located in San Diego County, California, 5.2 miles from downtown San Diego. Its population was 24,697 at the 2010 census, up from 24,100 at the 2000 census. U.S. News and World Report lists Coronado as one of the most expensive...
to San Diego - side railings are concrete blocks only 34 inches high
- over 50 people work 24 hours a day, seven days a week to maintain the bridge and take its tolls
- the grade and the 90-degree angle turn is to create clearance for an empty aircraft carrier to pass beneath it
- the bridge is the third largest orthogonal box in the country - the box is the center part of the bridge, between piers 18-21 over main shipping channel
- 2,850 of curved steel is contain the largest such segments in the country