Abstract:

Paul and I were introduced to each other in the early 1960s by Vern Knudsen with whom I was then collaborating on Frank Lloyd Wright's last public building, The Grady Gammage Auditorium on the Campus of Arizona State University (1964). My initial collaboration with Paul, with Vern Knudsen looking over both our shoulders, was the multipurpose arena on the campus of Washington State University. Simultaneously with the Washington State Project (1973) there were two other collaborations: (1) the remodeling-restoration of the Eastman theater on the campus of the University of Rochester (1972) and (2) the Hancher auditorium on the campus of the University of Iowa (1973). All told, my three collaborations, with Paul as acoustics consultant and myself as theater consultant, extended over a period of about 5 years (1968--1973). It is our collaboration on the Eastman project that is the subject of this paper.