From Bill Grover

Subject: RE: Doug

I remember participating in Doug's adventures at Yale, especially those Peter Papademetriou describes. Doug desperately needed visuals for the shopping center presentation so I volunteered to make a 5 minute 16mm movie with an old wind-up camera. We walked and rode around New Haven at night and filmed the highways and lights of the city and shopping centers. The film was called "Walk Don't Walk" (with titles from the New Haven pedestrian crossing signs). Background music was the Beatles' "Good Day Sunshine". I don't know whatever happened to the film but it was baffling to his final jury.

I also remember helping him fix up his apartment for publication by gluing part of a giant billboard poster of a Volkswagen over his bed for the New York Times article. The original billboard was a guy standing looking at the front view of a VW with a flat tire. The text was "Nobody's Perfect". We glued the guy (from the other half of the poster) into Charles Moore's house at 401 Elm Street. Chuck then one-upped Doug by getting his own house published in Playboy, babes, and all.

It was a great time to be in architecture school and Doug certainly added spice to it. May he rest in space.

Bill Grover
Centerbrook Architects