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Those who know my views and my commitments can testify on my unbounded optimism regarding the future of the Congrats on Convention city. Surely cities, as other bodies, continually die, but also are reborn—happily not in the embalmed EDITOR, Journal of the AIA: images of Mr Reed. Just a note to tell you how very much I enjoyed PIETRO BELLUSCHl FAIA the coverage of the Dallas convention. We, of Cambridge, Mass course, looked carefully at the Little Rock por tion of it and think you did an absolutely terrific EDITOR, Journal of the AIA: job in reproduction of slides and following our What is needed today is an approach to archi script. This is professional journalism at its best, tectural design somewhere between Henry Hope and please accept my sincerest congratulations for Reed's apologia for classicism and the unbridled a terrific job. romanticism of the "self-declared genius." More GORDON G. WITTENBERG AIA specifically, we need architects who can live with Little Rock, Ark out front-page publicity, who can concentrate on the particular architectural problem at hand and PR Begins at Eight who can resist the many whimsies such as the "Wide World of Glass." EDITOR, Journal of the AIA: WILLIAM LYMAN AIA Your "Architecture for Eight-Year-Olds" is Birmingham, Mich fascinating. Architect Arthur Fehr, 1 am sure, is appreciated by the entire profession for setting More on FDR such an example. As he puts it, children have "seen houses being built without an architect in EDITOR, Journal of the AIA: sight." Yet they have always had a need, real As one of the designers of the FDR Memorial or imaginary, for a doctor and see one frequently I should like to answer Mr Ostwald's letter of enough. Children will not forget what an architect criticism in the June issue of the Journal. can do to enrich their surroundings if they are First I would like to comment on what Mr exposed to one and see his work explained. They Ostwald calls the "colossal" scale of the memorial. will do the rest of public relations. The over-all size of the memorial and the heights of the steles were not arbitrarily arrived at. The MEIR SOFAIR AIA design was created and refined in movable model Philadelphia, i'a form. The scale of the spaces within the memorial was closely studied and constantly adjusted, work Reactions to Mr Reed ing within the memorial at eye level. Particular attention was directed to the scale of the human EDITOR, Journal of the AIA: figure within the complex. A careful look at the In the August issue there appears an article sectional drawing will show that the people are entitled "A Few Words on the Dilemma of Modern not dwarfed nor are the slabs disproportionate Architecture" by Henry Hope Reed. This has to the surrounding landscape, especially the cir needed saying for a long, long time, but I must cumferential elm trees on the site. As to the over admit I had lost all hope of seeing it in the Journal. all height of the slabs, critics have charged that Let me say also that I appreciated Bill Scheick's our memorial would "tower" over the adjacent remarks of a few months ago in which he poked Lincoln and JetTerson Memorials. Although our a little fun at masonry grilles that had appeared tallest slab is twenty-five feet higher than the everywhere, in the least appropriate places, be Lincoln Memorial, ours is open in form and is cause of their beauty in one appropriate spot— simply a vertical plane; it does not define a vol the New Delhi Embassy. ume in space. With further refinement it may be So much of the big stuff going up these days found that this height can be reduced without deserves the remark credited to President Grant changing the basic spatial and formal relationships. upon being shown through the then new Pension As for lettering, we have studied engraved Building: "It's too bad it's fireproof." lettering on many buildings. It is our opinion that letters of this size (approximately 10" high) may RICHARD W. ALGER AIA Arlington, Va (Continued on p. 10)