As a kind of coda to what I was saying about design, Rafael Vignoly told me the following:
 
His office had won a Princeton competition for a new faculty building for some very abstruse branch of science (let’s call it astrophysics).
At a meeting with the senior academics he was introduced for the first time to the landscape architect, who expounded his ideas for the project.
 
When questioned by the faculty Director, the landscape architect, somewhat patronizingly,replies: ‘Oh, these are concepts in landscape design which you would probably find hard to grasp’.
To which the Director: ‘Well I’m an intelligent woman, and I’ve got all morning …..’.
 

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