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EERO SAARINEN AND ASSOCIATES
ARCHITECTS  BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN

I WROTE THIS LAST NIGHT —I GUESS I WAS A BIT MAD —

Darling - 

It is about 5 am. and I cannot sleep so I thought I would get up and write you because during the day there has been abolutly no time.— I have lived like a munk working the whole time — I plan to relax on that this next week. — The work with UNESCO—God knows what will happen to that to morrow I think it will blow up to open war. Howard Robertson of England is a wonderfull wise man (about 62) seems to have all the qualities of age and youth and a good sence of design we are in perfect accord and from the very start disliked intensly the scheeme that Boudwin has arrived at. B. has no [[strikethrough]] good qualities, if I [[/strikethrough]] sence for trying to arrive at a mutually agreeable solution — In our opinion his scheem is old fashioned, Beaux Arte, and reactionary.— (We are only at this time concerned with the placing of the building blocks on the site)— He believes that because the building site is near an old historic building (Ecole Militare) it is necessary to carry out the typical french city planing traditions of building the buildings around the perifery of the site — in order to [[strikethrough]] do this he has to [[/strikethrough]] have enough buildings to go around he has to give away 1/2 of the site to some kind of a French Govement building — We claim that this is all nonsence — The present and future need not be chaned by the past.— [[strikethrough]] The half circle [[/strikethrough]] U.NESCO is too important a building to be treated like just so much sausage to be strung along boulevards in order to [[strikethrough]] creat [[/strikethrough]] complete a very poor 1/2 circle. By all sorts of manipulations he is trying to force the establishment of his scheme as the only one acceptable to the French city planning authorites and therefore the only thing that can be done.— He is very foolish and dumb

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