Stephen Carter (architect)

Stephen J. Carter, AIA, NCARB, LF'82 (born 1945 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American Architect.^[1]

Biography

Carter was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He received degrees from the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning and Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was Loeb Fellow in 1981 and 1982.^[2] As a student Carter won a design competition held in 1968 for the memorial to Henry Hobson Richardson's Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce building. The memorial was completed in 1972 and resides in Burnet Woods.^[3]

Carter taught and/or lectured in the Architectural programs at Ohio State University, The University of Cincinnati, Harvard University and Miami University of Ohio where he was a Graduate Design Studio Head for 19 years.^[4] His teaching experience accrued while he practiced full-time at Lorenz and Williams Incorporated (LWI) in Dayton, Ohio.^[5] Carter became an LWI partner in 1982 and CEO/Chairman of the Board from 1999 to 2005.^[6] He is now a Partner Emeritus.

Carter has worked on projects as the LWI team member in association with other notable architects including; Charles Willard Moore, Michael Graves, Peter Eisenman, Thom Mayne and James Ingo Freed. These associations provided an opportunity to participate in a wide variety of philosophical design approaches enriching his practice and teaching.

Carter has designed project types including; Corporate Headquarters, Restoration & Adaptive reuse, libraries, medical centers, public spaces and civic centers, cultural facilities, education, K-12 and universities.

Some of his most notable designs include; The National Aviation Hall of Fame, NCR Corporation World Headquarters (Dayton, Ohio) master plan, MetLife Midwestern Headquarters, Ohio State University Main Library, Eli Lilly and Company HQ Historic Restoration, Xavier University Graduate Student Housing, SCC Center for Integrated Learning, SunWatch Indian Village Interpretive Center, Carillon Historical Park and River Design Dayton. His latest project is Schuster Heart Hospital for Kettering Medical Center.

Carter won the Progressive Architecture Award twice (1975, 1977), the American Institute of Architects Ohio Honor Award twelve times, the American Institute of Architects Dayton Honor Award ten times, Operation Resurrection a monument to Henry Hobson Richardson and numerous other awards and honors. His work has been featured in articles in French, German, Japanese and American magazines and periodicals including; Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, Urban Design, JA, Baumeister, Architecture Intérieure Créé and Rizzoli International Publications.

Carter has served in the various officer positions of American Institute of Architects. He was President of the Dayton Chapter of the AIA in 1982, served on the AIA Ohio Board and was in charge of the AIA Honor Awards Program at the State Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.^[7] He is President-Elect of the Hilton Head Island American Institute of Architects.^[8] He resides and practices on Hilton Head Island, SC. His practice is focused on design/master planning consultation on a wide variety of project types.

Selected projects

The following are projects in which Carter's main role was designer/principal in charge.

CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS

• Metropolitan Life Midwestern Head Office, Miamisburg, Ohio 1977
• NCR Corporation World Headquarters Planning and Programming, Dayton, Ohio 1977
• NCR Corporation Regional Office, Cleveland, Ohio 1982
• L. M. Berry (Yellow Pages) South Central Area Headquarters, Birmingham, Alabama 1984
• The Children's Place Headquarters & National Distribution Center, Montville Township, New Jersey 1986

RESTORATION & ADAPTIVE REUSE

• Old Post Office, Restoration for Lorenz & Williams Incorporated Office, Dayton, Ohio 1979
• Arcade Square (Dayton Arcade), Retail Center, Dayton, Ohio 1980
• Chemineer Incorporated, Corporate Headquarters, Kuhns Building Renovation, Dayton, Ohio 1981
• Eli Lilly & Company, Remodeling Building 13/21, Indianapolis, Indiana 1987

LIBRARIES

• Ohio State University William Oxley Thompson Library, Columbus, Ohio 1977
• Middletown Public Library, Middletown, Ohio 1981
• United Theological Seminary Learning Resource Center Design, Library/Faculty Office Building, Dayton, Ohio 1985
• Clark County Public Library, Springfield, Ohio 1989

MEDICAL

• St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio, 1974
• Sycamore Medical Center, Miamisburg, Ohio, Master Plan, Programming, 1975
• Dayton Children's Medical Center, Dayton, Ohio, Master Plan, Phases I & II, 1977

PUBLIC PLACES

• River Corridor Plan, Dayton, Ohio, Miami Conservancy District, 1977
• Montgomery County Courthouse Square, Dayton, Ohio 1978
• River's Edge Park, Dayton, Ohio, Miami Conservancy District, 1980
• Carillon Historical Park Master Plan, Dayton, Ohio: Wright Hall Addition, Dicke Transportation Center, Kettering Education Center, Culp Cafe

RETAIL

• Federated Department Stores, Columbus, Ohio, Lafayette Square, Lafayette, Indiana; New Division of Department Stores, Chicago, Illinois 1970-1974
• Rouse Company, Dayton, Ohio: Multiple Retail Projects. 1983
• The Home Company, Chicago, Illinois: Furniture Store, 1985

CULTURAL FACILITIES

• Dayton Natural History Museum, SunWatch Indian Village Interpretive Center, Miamisburg, Ohio 1987
• The National Aviation Hall of Fame Design, Fairborn, Ohio 1989

HIGHER EDUCATION

• Village Housing at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio 1989
• Sinclair Community College Center for Interactive Learning, Dayton, Ohio, 1998
• Sinclair Community College Food Court, Dayton, Ohio 2000
• Ohio Northern University College of Business Administration, Ada, Ohio, 2003

OTHER

• NCR Worldwide Service Parts Distribution Center, Peachtree City, Georgia, 1972
• U.S. Postal Service: Trotwood Branch; West Carrollton Branches, 1974
• NCR Corporation World Parts Distribution Center, Atlanta, Georgia 1974
• Dayton Children's Medical Center Master Plan & Phase I, Dayton, Ohio 1975-1978
• Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences, Cincinnati, Ohio 1986
• Mainstreet Division of Federated Department Stores, 22 Stores of 2 Prototype Designs, Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota 1984-1988

References

Notes

Sources

BOOKS

• Stephen J. Carter/ J. P. Chadwick Floyd, Riverdesign Dayton: A Pioneering Design Process Results in this Catalogue of Opportunities for a Great American River, 1977, River Corridor Committee, Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, Ohio
• Laurence A. Alexander, Editor, “Courthouse Square/Arcade Square/River Edge, Dayton, Ohio,” * pp. 28–33 in Winning Downtown Projects: A Photographic Case Study Report of Outstanding Downtown Developments, 1981, The Downtown Research & Development Center, New York (Article is about nominee’s design projects)
• Peter Arnetll /Ted Bickford, Editors, “Lorenz & Williams Incorporated and Michael Graves, Architect,: pp. 71-89* in A Center for the Visual Arts, The Ohio State University Competition, 1984, Rizzoli International Publications, New York (* includes two profiles of designers: Stephen J. Carter and Michael Graves)
• James M. Wood, Editor, A New Generation Looks at Downtown Housing, 1983, The Ohio Arts Council, Architects Society of Ohio Foundation, GRAPHCO Printing, Cleveland, Ohio (* includes a description of Warehouse District Team Leader, Stephen Carter, p. 5)

SELECTED ARTICLES

Newspaper articles

• “Metropolitan Life Midwestern Head Office Building”, critique by Jane Merkel, The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 24, 1979.
• “National Aviation Hall of Fame”, by Ben Kline, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, July 30, 1989.
• “Local Award Winning Designer Receives Fellowship From Harvard”, by Walt McCaslin, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, July 30, 1989.
• “Critique of Wright Health Building”, by Ben Kline, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, September 6, 1992.
• “Carillon Park Master Plan and First Phase Construction” by Ben Kline, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, July 26, 1999.
• “LWI Relocation Office Design”, by Lynn Hulsey, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, June 22, 2000.
• “Jewish Federation Project Quotes” by Katherine Ullmer, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, March 30, 2000.
• “Oakwood Chooses LWI Stephen Carter”, quoted on selection and design process, by Mara Lee, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, November 29, 2001.
• “Stephen Carter Receives Award from AIA Dayton for CHP Dicke Family Transportation Center” by Ben Kline, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, February 13, 2002.
• “Arcade Square” article with Stephen J. Carter quotes, Ben Kline, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, February 19, 2004.
• “Stephen Carter Selected as First Architect Superstar in the Dayton Business Journal Superstars Award Program” by Lisa Morawski,

Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, September 5, 2005.

• “MetLife Midwest HQ Wins AIA Ohio Honor Award”, Ben Kline, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, November 13, 2006.
• “Old Post Office Wins Honor Award”, Mike Loy, Dayton Daily News, Dayton, Ohio, February 22, 2009.

Magazine articles

International

• “The Ohio State University Main Library”, Jury: Peter Eisenman, Peter Chermayeff, Paul Rudolph, Eberhard H. Zeidler, Lee Copeland, Joyce Whitley, Michael Brill, Clare Cooper Marcus, Progressive Architecture, January 1975, Reinhold Publishing Company, Inc. (Penton), Cleveland, Ohio
• “Arcade Square: Dayton, Ohio”, Architecture Interieure Cree, April–May 1978, OJD Diffusion Publicite, Paris, France
• “Metropolitan Life Insurance Company”, Baumeister, October, 1978, Callwey, München, Germany
• “Arcade”, Spacedesign, October 1983, Zenjiro Kawai, Tokyo, Japan
• "River Design Dayton", Jury: Raymond Affleck and Ernest Bonner, Progressive Architecture, January 1977, Reinhold Publishing Company Inc. (Penton), Cleveland, Ohio
• “The Ohio State University Main Library”, Baumeister, December 1979, Callwey, München, Germany

National

• “Remodeling Designer of the Year First Place: The Old Post Office & Federal Building” in Commercial Remodeling, October 1981, Qualified Remodeler Inc., Chicago, Illinois
• “The Rehabilitation of the Old Post Office, Dayton, Ohio”, Peter A. McGraw, Technology & Conservation of Art, Architecture & Antiquities,

Fall, 1981, Technology Organization Inc., Boston, Massachusetts

• “Middletown Public Library” in Progressive Architecture, April 1981, Reinhold Publishing Company, Inc. (Penton)
• “IBD Award Winner: Chemineer, Inc.” In Interior Design, November 1983, Cahners Publishing (Reed), Newton, Massachusetts
• “Adaptive Use of Old Post Office Wins ASID Interior Design Award” in Contract Magazine, August 1984, Gralla Publications, New York
• “Design Winners 1988”, Dick Rigby, Ann Green, Waterfront World, September 1988, The Waterfront Center, Washington, D.C.

Cleveland, Ohio

• “Riverfront Plaza”, Progressive Architecture, June 1975, Reinhold Publishing Company, Inc. (Penton), Cleveland, Ohio
• “Riverside Dayton, Arcade Square”, cover story, Architectural Record, December 1976, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York
• “Arcade Square”, Lois Heyman, Urban Design, Fall, 1977, R.C. Publications, Inc., New York
• “Ohio State Library Critique”, John Morris Dixon, Progressive Architecture, June 1980, Reinhold Publishing Company, Inc. (Penton), Cleveland, Ohio
• “New Look for an Old Post Office”, Lighting Design & Application, December 1980, Illuminating Engineering Society of American, New York
• “Energy Analysis: Arcade Square, Dayton, Ohio”, Vladimir Bazjanac, Ph.D, Progressive Architecture, November 1980, Reinhold Publishing Company Inc. (Penton), Cleveland, Ohio
• “Under Glass: Arcade Square, Dayton, Ohio”, Jim Murphy, Progressive Architecture, November 1981, Reinhold Publishing Company, Inc. (Penton) Cleveland, Ohio

Regional

• Metropolitan Life Insurance Midwestern Head Office and Ohio State University Library Remodeling & Addition, Architects Society of Ohio (AIA Ohio) Magazine, Fall 1977
• Arcade Square, Architects Society of Ohio (AIA Ohio) Magazine, Fall 1980
• River’s Edge Park and the Old Post Office Remodeling, Architects Society of Ohio (AIA Ohio) Magazine, Fall 1981
• Chemineer Offices, Architects Society of Ohio (AIA Ohio) Magazine, Fall 1982
• Art Campbell, “Art, Art Everywhere” in Dayton, The Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce, Dayton, Ohio, Sept/Oct.1983
• L. M. Berry S. C. A. Headquarters, Architects Society of Ohio (AIA Ohio) Magazine, Fall 1986
• IAMS Mixed Used Facility and Children’s Place Office & Distribution Center, Architects Society of Ohio (AIA Ohio) Magazine, Fall 1987
• The Indian Village Interpretive Center, Architects Society of Ohio (AIA Ohio) Magazine, Fall 1989
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Midwestern Head Office, Architects Society of Ohio (AIA Ohio) Magazine, Fall 2003

External links

• Riverdesign Dayton, A Planning History