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secular state can resolve competing
claims through political means: Liberal
Palestinian votes would be sought by
progressive Israelis, and vice versa. The
grim alternative for Israel: further
isolation, virtual apartheid, boycotts,
sanctions.
Peace and lasting reconciliation can
follow only from negotiations aimed at
democracy for all, not nonsubstantive
border-tinkering. Difficult? Certainly.
Impossible, no.
KEN SCUDDER ’63
San Francisco, Calif.
Designing in green
I appreciate your report about progress
and growing interest in green design
(feature, March 21).
I helped build the thermal helio -
dome in Princeton’s architectural laboratory
as an undergraduate. Victor and
Aladar Olgyay were fascinating teachers.
Their heliodome showed how thick
masonry walls transfer cool night temperatures
to interiors during the day in
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hot dry climates. Frank Lloyd Wright
came to visit the laboratory, carefully
felt all the project’s components, and
explained that touch helped him comprehend
surfaces.
Don Lyndon ’57 and I went to Holland
after graduation in 1957. Don
returned to do his master’s; I stayed in
Europe and apprenticed with Eugene
Beaudouin, renowned Chef d’Atelier of
the Ecole des Beaux Arts and chief
planner for North Africa and the south
of France.
In 1972 I found myself managing the
northwest sector of the Boston Transportation
Planning Review, which
stopped construction of an “inner-belt”
highway, used the funds allocated to
better serve Boston and its suburbs
with high-speed freight and passenger
rail service, and buried the Central
Artery. I returned to Europe to work
with Frank Elliott ’57 on plans for
Mexico and a city in Saudi Arabia for
the Middle East Division of the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.
Between 1957 and 1975, fuel-consumptive
ideas hatched bigger and big-
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ger planning, zoning, construction, and
manufacturing failures, overwhelmed
infrastructures and materials suppliers,
and confused intellectual-property values.
Corporations changed the practice
of architecture so that drawings and
specifications became invitations for
litigation between clients, builders,
architects, and materials suppliers.
It is refreshing to read what Claire
Maxfield *03, ARO, and Maryann
Thompson ’83 are doing. For me, too,
building green means appreciating
local microdynamics that ecologically
vitalize and renew watersheds and realestate
values.
PETER ROUDEBUSH ’57
Greensboro, Vt.
The progressive work of the sustainable
Princeton architects profiled in your
March 21 issue is impressive. Side by
side with the architects using green
practices are landscape architects promoting
these innovative practices in
every phase of their work.
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