Its hard to impress "real" architects with good questions.

I've recently begun to notice that my questioning authority is not merely a
fault in my personal charachter, but all sorts of respected preservation people
and publications on what it takes to be a preservationist, point out that
without the ability to look away from the documents and study the real
stuff...and question, especially to question authority, is an asset.

So, a youngster challenges you.  You smile.  Somebody worth taking out on the
next job site.

-jc

ps, had lunch with Gersil Kay at the University Club in Chicago once...she's a
lady.



Ralph Walter wrote:

> In a message dated 1/11/2001 1:44:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << Gersil Kay is definitely a woman.  I used to think (and actually stated in
>  public) that the architect Fay Jones was a woman. >>
>
> Mah Deah Miss Sullivan,
>
> In my yout', I used to think that cats were female and dogs male.  All of
> 'em.  And I thought the "stud service" signs in pet shop windows referred to
> the cutting off of tails from certain breeds of dogs.
>
> When Paolo Soleri came to lecture at Architecture School, I stood up in an
> auditorium full of people (people I knew, yet) and asked him what would
> happen in his megastructures if somebody on the top floor (or say on the 60th
> floor) had a heart attack while the elevators were on fire service.   Soleri
> was neither impressed nor dissuaded.  It just occurs to me that one could
> have the same problem in any highrise.
>
> Ralph