Another gay Harvard man, the future architect Philip Johnson, read the article, became Hitchcock's friend, and together they developed what became known as the International Style.
I was writing an article for Blueprint and Schrager was commenting upon the work of designers and architects he read about in the magazine.
"Dome was required by Bank over our dead protests," reads an architect's note.
Joe Pruitt, the senior architect at F5 Networks, reads influential blogs on a daily basis (he currently tracks about 80).
"The role demands a unique combination of sales prowess, rapport building skills, analytical horsepower and process architecting chops," the advert reads.
So if the list of architects at work here reads like an international who's who, it didn't happen without a struggle.
He had intended to be an architect, and he read widely, especially in philosophy.
Now, I don't see architecture as something that will save the world, but I think the architect has to read, has to be informed.
There are copper birds perched on the dovecotes, gargoyles along the roofline, embossed gutters, bits of stained glass glowing at the corners of windows, and a gilded sign over the door that reads Manoir Roche Vallon — the architect's title for his creation.
A trained architect, well-read Marxist intellectual and astute art historian, Arden was a rare bird in a theatre scene populated with many equally committed but less gifted colleagues.
