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New Building Serves as Model for Green Design . . . Continued from page 1.
...enhances the mission of SALA, from collaborative training
between the disciplines to enhancement of environmental
stewardship.”
The Stuckeman Family Building, a 111,000 squarefoot,
$26.5 million facility, is expected to earn a Gold
Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership
in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
Green Building Rating System®. It would be among
the first buildings on a college campus to earn that distinction.
The energy efficient design is projected to reduce
the building’s annual energy costs by 35 percent
compared to a conventionally designed structure.
The building’s exterior is made of recycled copper,
brick and energy-conserving glazed windows with exteri
the architecture and landscape architecture disciplines.
The facility also houses a 4,000 square-foot model shop
with outdoor construction yard, two computer classrooms, the Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Library, the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing
and the Hamer Center for Community Design Assistance.
Cal Stuckeman and Lisa Schroeder, who met and became friends through their involvement in the Penn State Alumni Association chapter in Naples, Fla.
Art History Mourns Distinguished Scholar
George L. Mauner, 73, distinguished professor emeritus of art history and one of the foremost experts on 19th-century French and Swiss painting, died June 7 in State College from complications of chemotherapy, which had successfully eliminated his Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Mauner, who taught at Penn State from 1962 until 1995, is credited with rediscovering a master of early modernism, painter Cuno Amiet, who is the so-called “missing link” between French postimpressionism and German expressionism. He wrote several books about Amiet and organized many U.S. and European exhibitions of his art, including Three Swiss Painters for the Guggenheim Museum in 1973.
Mauner
is best known for his extensive work on the 19th-century French painter Edouard Manet. His book, Manet,
Peintre Philosophe, published in 1975, won worldwide critical acclaim and revolutionized Manet scholarship.
He organized a multitude of international exhibits, most recently including Manet: The Still Life Paintings,
with its very successful accompanying book, which opened at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris in 2000
and then moved to the Walters Museum of Art in Baltimore. In 2002, Mauner was named Officier dans l’Ordre
des Arts et des Lettres by the French minister of culture in recognition of his lifetime achievements.
While at Penn State, Mauner served as director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities from 1990 to 1996. In that role, he organized conferences and symposia that brought together literature, music and theatre, addressing topics such as music of the American theatre, French composer Gabriel Fauré and German expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schüler. His symposium on Lorenzo Da Ponte traced the career of Mozart’s librettist to Pennsylvania. Mauner remained active with the institute after his retirement, organizing a symposium in 2000 on Jean Cocteau that featured the world premiere of the opera Paul and Virginie. He was at work on several books and exhibitions before he died.
Born in Trieste, Italy, on June 2, 1931, Mauner grew up in New York City. He received a doctorate in the history of art from Columbia University, under the direction of Meyer Shapiro, in 1967.
He is survived by Manya, his wife of 48 years; his daughter, Claudia Mauner; and his granddaughter, Zoe Mauner, all of State College.
Contributions in his memory may be made to the Special Collections Library, care of the Dean’s Office, 510 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802; to Amnesty International, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Washington, D.C. 20003; or to the Humane Farming Fund, P.O. Box 3577, San Rafael, CA 94912.
