But at the same time it is known that the sculptor and architect enjoyed a life of enthusiastic unchastity.
Here the architect enjoyed the patronage of the forward-thinking Herbert F. Johnson, whose family owed its fortune to floor wax.
(There is nothing the architect enjoys more than tweaking conventional good taste). Out in the atrium, banquettes lined with aqua-blue naugahyde work the same vein.
"It's pretty rare that you find architects enjoying their own work," he said.
With few functional demands to take into consideration, architects enjoyed carte blanche.
"We architects enjoy a pat on the back, but unless you build it, it's just an idea," he said.
Yet, paradoxically, the musical creations of this same place and period - by composers who were esthetically, ideologically and personally linked with the artists and architects - enjoy no similar popularity.
Recognition at home has been a long time coming for Adam Caruso and Peter St John, now in their mid-to-late 50s, and who, like many of the best British architects, enjoy their biggest commissions overseas.
A new monograph on the firm, "The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich," by Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker Nortonn, 2003) gives the outsider a look inside the town houses, clubs and other buildings that staked out a reputation the architects enjoy to this day -- and also the insouciant touches that distinguish it from the typical upper-class architectural firm.
With projects scattered across four continents, and an office in most of them, the 51-year-old British-Ghanaian architect is enjoying his most feted moment yet.
