Mr. David Kahler

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  Architect David Kahler To Receive Honorary Degree at... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/11/1997    Last Visited: 8/4/2001  

  Architect David Kahler To Receive Honorary Degree at MSOE's Winter Commencement ( 11 February )Architect David Kahler To Receive Honorary Degree at MSOE's Winter Commencement
  
  11 February 1997
  
  Architect David Kahler To Receive Honorary Degree at MSOE's Winter Commencement.
  
  MILWAUKEE--Milwaukee School of Engineering ( MSOE ) will confer an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree upon David Kahler , president of Kahler Slater and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects ( FAIA ).He will be honored at MSOE's winter quarter commencement on March 1 at the Marcus Center for the Performing Art's Uihlein Hall , 929 N. Water St. , Milwaukee , at 10 a.m.
  
  Kahler has practiced architecture for more than 30 years.He is a registered architect in Wisconsin , Illinois , Colorado , Iowa , Arizona , Florida , Indiana , Montana , Minnesota , Utah and Michigan.He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University and a Master of Fine Arts in Architecture from Princeton University.
  
  In addition to serving as president of Kahler Slater , he has served as design resource and principal-in-charge of numerous Wisconsin projects including the MECCA expansion studies , The Bradley Center , The Kohl Center at UW-Madison , Marcus Center for the Performing Arts renovation and addition , and Wisconsin State Capitol restoration.
  
  A member of MSOE's Board of Regents , Kahler has completed many projects with MSOE including the Student Life and Campus Center , Margaret Loock Residence Hall , the Walter Schroeder Memorial Library , Regents Hall Dormitory and the MSOE master plan.
  
  Kahler has received numerous awards as design principal including awards for his work on the Milwaukee Art Museum , the Pettit National Ice Center , and the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University.In addition , the Milwaukee Landmark Lighting project received a national urban design award from the American Institute of Architects , as well as an honor award from the Wisconsin chapter of the American Institute of Architects.Locally , Kahler has received awards from the Milwaukee Art Commission for his contributions in design excellence and from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Civic Alliance for his civic contributions.
  
  These contributions include memberships and service in the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ) ; A.I.A. Wisconsin ; Greater Milwaukee Committee ; Rotary Club of Milwaukee ; Milwaukee Public Library Foundation ; Alverno College Commission on Education in the 21st Century ; Milwaukee County Zoological Society ; former president and trustee , Milwaukee Art Museum ; Greater Milwaukee Committee Marketing Task Force ; Mayor Norquist's Urban Design Committee ; and Executive Committee of Alliance for Future Transit--Milwaukee.He served as chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee ( UW-M ) School of Architecture and Urban Planning Capital Campaign ; Architects' River Committee ; and Facilities Subcommittee ; co-chair of the Landmark Lighting Committee and director of the UW-M Foundation.Kahler and his wife , Cynthia , live in Shorewood , Wis..They have four children.
  
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  DesignArchitecture News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/28/2001    Last Visited: 8/18/2003  

  David Kahler, former CEO of Kahler Slater, is opening his own consulting firm, DK Consulting, located at Kahler Slater's Milwaukee office headquarters.

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  Directors | Center for Railroad Photography & Art - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/8/2009    Last Visited: 5/8/2009  

  David Kahler
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  Kahler has practiced architecture for more than 30 years and has been recognized by his peers as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. After serving as the president of Kahler Slater Architects, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for nearly three decades, Mr. Kahler founded DK Consulting in 2001 and serves as president and design adviser. Many projects for which he has been the design principal have won awards, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin State Capitol Restoration, the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, and the Pettit National Ice Center.

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  Finance and Commerce - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/29/2002    Last Visited: 10/29/2002  

  The recently leveled land in downtown Manhattan also represents a clean slate, architecturally speaking, and designers should consider a completely different look for the area, said David Kahler, former head of architecture firm Kahler Slater in Milwaukee.He said he would favor a design similar to the six- and seven-story buildings that line the avenues of Paris and Washington, D.C.
  
  "If I was in a position to control the redevelopment, I would suggest that [the World Trade Center] be rebuilt, but the tallest building would be no taller than the surrounding buildings," Kahler said."Whenever you have a low-profile city with one or two very high buildings, you're a perfect target for a terrorist attack."
  
  New York must remain a concentrated urban area, but that could just as easily be accomplished by a series of shorter buildings as with a few jutting towers, he said.
  
  "One of the strategic mistakes we made a long time ago was to concentrate the financial services in a tight geographic space," Kahler said."The result is that you have a high density in a small area.But you can have the same high density with a horizontal expression."
  
  The product of horizontal development, he said, would be a working environment that encourages human interaction, which should be a chief goal of the architect who will eventually oversee the area's reconstruction, Kahler said.Building another tall building, featuring what he called "a lonely elevator up," would diminish the chances for personal contact.
  
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  "In some ways, horizontal construction may lead to a more healthy environment," Kahler said."If we can get over the egocentric approach of always building the tallest building, it seems to me that a more horizontal expression is in order in the future."

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  Hendersonville Times-News - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 3/25/2006  

  • David Kahler, fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

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  IESNA - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/10/2002    Last Visited: 12/27/2003  

  Designer: David KahlerCompany: Kahler Slater ArchitectsOwner: Milwaukee Art Museum
  
  Façade/Show Illumination of the Golden Moon Casino

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  IIDA - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/28/2003    Last Visited: 3/28/2004  

  Designer: David KahlerCompany: Kahler Slater ArchitectsOwner: Milwaukee Art Museum
  
  Façade/Show Illumination of the Golden Moon Casino

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  INgeniUS: Santiago Calatrava | Metropolis Magazine |... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/1/2001    Last Visited: 5/20/2004  

  Most remarkable is the testimony of David Kahler of Kahler Slater, architect of record for the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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  Kahler was the architect of a 1975 extension to the original building that, as he puts it, "is now the meat in the sandwich between Saarinen and Calatrava."Kahler might have hoped to design this latest addition himself; and many architects would object to being thoroughly upstaged, as his quiet extension is by Calatrava's.
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  Not Kahler.
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  "He could have been a real prima donna," Kahler says, "but he's not.
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  "New York and Chicago are surprised Milwaukee took the stage," Kahler says.
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  Kahler adds: "There was no way to put a cap on the time or the budget.The design is not complete until the door opens.You're working with a lot of double curvatures, and sometimes you can't draw it until after it's complete.Architects learn about the project in the course of building it, much as they did on medieval cathedrals."So if the project architect can't quantify the building in advance, how can the contractors?"Less costs more," Kahler says, meaning that Calatrava's rejection of cladding makes it impossible to hide loose or rough work; precision and perfection come at a steep price."His approach brings everything down to its essence," Kahler says, such that great concrete arches have to land on two-inch-thick hexagonal steel plates."As the building nears completion, it's looking simpler and simpler.The question is, 'Where did all the money go?'"
  
  The price of genius, in other words, includes risk--the risk that things won't go according to plan.In Engineering News-Record, consultants and contractors were unanimous in saying that, however difficult the design may make their jobs, it was worth it to achieve a marvel."Everybody is patient," Kahler says, "because a community that is normally very conservative has embraced the project."

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  JS Online: Bridge rises to the occasion - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/30/2002    Last Visited: 4/30/2002  

  For architect David Kahler, the sight of those muscular, cabled pylons rising from the deck of the nearly finished 6th St. Viaduct is sweet vindication.
  
  6th St. Viaduct
  
  Photo/Jeffery Phelps
  
  A lift raises construction workers to the concrete pillars of the 6th St. Viaduct on Monday.
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  After years of pushing and pulling between modernists and traditionalists over what the new bridge would look like, and a related tug-of-war over how to pay for it, "they're really building it the way I designed it - a bridge of its own time and place," Kahler says."For a long time I wasn't sure that was going to happen."
  
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  Kahler, who retired last year as president of Kahler Slater Architects, started working on the design 15 years ago.He wanted a cable-stayed span: one that would be held up largely by cables rather than by a forest of supports underneath.
  
  Cable-stayed bridges, prized for their clean, modern lines and striking profiles, are used more often in Europe as a way to span longer distances than this one.
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  Such bridges have been a specialty of Santiago Calatrava, the Spaniard who designed the Milwaukee Art Museum and its cabled pedestrian bridge in collaboration with Kahler and his colleagues.
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  "He would have done something sleeker," Kahler says."This one, using standard American techniques, may not be the most beautiful bridge in the world, but it looks like it's comfortable in its place."
  
  The viaduct's contemporary look, which will include a glassy bridge house, was not guaranteed, however.The state, which was to foot 75% of the cost, originally pushed for a plain-vanilla, standard-issue bridge, arguing that design refinements would cost more.The county, which was to split the rest of the bill with the city, initially leaned toward an Old World design.Some Walker's Point leaders also wanted a more traditional bridge.
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  But Kahler and Norquist, among others, held out for modern, arguing that with the boldly futuristic art museum under way on the lakefront and the gritty Menomonee Valley on the cusp of a transformation for light industry and recreation, the last thing Milwaukee needed was a blast from the past.

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