I had lunch with Norval White today (co-author of the AIA Guide to New York
City and organizer of AGBANY, the group which picketed the demolition of Penn
Station in 1962 and 1963.  He's built a neat all-white, very sheer barn
structure on a clover meadow, with interior barn framing.

To an observation that the picketers were not the "traditionalists" in NYC at
the time, but rather the young, modern architects (Philip Johnson, Jordan
Gruzen, Ed Barnes, etc.) he made an observation.  He said that it was his
father's generation which rejected architectural history; by the time
Norval's generation got to school (1940's 1950's) they were very curious
about history, and, indeed, felt deprived.  They did not see a dichotomy
between the buildings they designed and the history they appreciated.

Christopher Gray