It is a sad end for a firm that once made cars architects, designers and engineers adored.
If Hoke tries at times to think like a car designer, he's still an architect.
On the way back in the car, the architects and the writer stopped for lunch at Homer's in Glen Spey ("There's No Place Like Homer's").
As Claremont High School's class of 1976 geared up for its 30-year reunion today, the teenagers who went on to become teachers, cops, car salesmen, lawyers, architects and pilots reconnected over the last couple of months with technology none of us could have imagined then -- and all of us take for granted today.
Still, once a week they piled into a car with their architect, Caleb Mulvena, of Studio Mapos in Manhattan, and made the five-hour round trip to check on progress.
Although some criticised the repair of Spain's 9th Century Matrera Castle, saying it had been turned into a 1960s multi-storey car park, the architect had the last laugh as he walked off with the architecture and preservation prize at the Architizer A+ awards.
Writer drives up in a car with the two architects, Henry Korman and Claude Samton.
Drivers can find landmarks to make unfamiliar car journeys easier; and architects can study buildings without being there.
Aviator, architect, race car driver, wizard, ski instructor, fabulist, photographer and erotomaniac, Carlo Mollino designed furniture, cars, buildings and dresses.
We aren't really interested in the larger car," said Patrick Masterson, an architect from Virginia Beach, Va., who rented a Smart convertible while on vacation in St. Barts and is now on J. K.'s waiting list.
