CONTENTS
FOREWORD 7
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 9
INTRODUCTION II
INTERVIEWS 23
JULY IS, 1969
TAPE I, SIDE I: City Tower Project, Philadelphia-human needs¬ 23
learning from nature- order- truth- wind
TAPE I, SIDE 2: Landscaping-monumentality- Yale University Art Gallery- the street 28
NOVEMBER 6, 1969
TAPE 3, s 1 DE I :"What is has always been"- presence- desire¬ the need to express- understanding the other man-commonness¬ 33
"a space evokes its use"- Dhaka- concepts of design- "design makes the shape"- realization of the nature of things
DECEMBER 7, 1969
TAPE 4, SIDE I: The leader-institutions- schools of talent¬ commonness- silence and light 49
TAPE 4, SIDE 2: First Unitarian Church, Rochester-the client¬ order -leadership and commonness- design makes rules to use the laws of nature to create presence- City Tower Project and Kansas City Office Building- building nonconsciously from nature through desire 65
TAPE s, SIDE 1: Visionary architecture-Boullee-Ledoux-Lequeu¬ utopian architecture- Paul Rudolph- the client- Kansas City 83
Office Building- gravity- influence- brickwork- order- architecture¬ urban design-Venice- concrete- Dhaka
•TAPEs, SIDE 2: Dhaka-monsoons-hospital-AssemblyBuilding- hostels- Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla -landscaping¬ order- mosque (Dhaka) -ornament- Kline Biology Tower, New Haven¬ Palazzo dei Congressi, Venice 106
APRIL 4, 1970
TAPE 6, SIDE I:YaleCenterforBritishArt(MellonCenter)¬ shops- the street- library- Englishness- the room- orientation¬ 127
Palazzo dei Congressi
TAPE 6, SIDE 2: Room-space-communal living 151
APRIL 5, 1970
TAPE 7, s 1 DE 1: Function- form- Eleanor Donnelley Erdman Hall, Bryn Mawr- Yale Center for British Art (Mellon Center) rare books¬ monumentality- street- light- slate exterior- Anne Tyng¬
geometry- ordinariness 166
TAPE 7, SIDE 2: Beautifullyordinary-exhaustducts-lastingquality¬ Richards Medical Research Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia- beautiful space- unchanging space-Yale University 188
Art Gallery, New Haven- rooms/space- light-Jewish Community Center, Trenton- Bath House- hollow columns- understanding¬
beauty/truth- circumstances
TAPE s, s1 DE I :Philadelphia traffic studies- stopping- the heart 209
of the city- pedestrians- preservation- scale- developers- the street as building- one leader- order- Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad- heat/light- porches
TAPE s, SIDE 2: Ahmedabad- buttresses-sun-cooling-water¬ brick construction- glare- openings 228
TAPE 9, SIDE 1: Jewish Community Center Bath House -first major discovery- finding universal applicability- architecture of connection¬ 255
giving consciousness to rooms- hollow columns
NOT S 264
APPENDIX: Figures by Location 266
INDEX 275
PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS 285
ABOUT THE EDITORS 287