The below are most of my original drawings as presented to the Yale thesis jury in 1967. These are all drawn by hand by me without the use of computers. Lieutenant Goodale of New York Citys Police Headquarters spent his time to teach me about the policies and operations of precinct stations and then assigned me to spend a week at the precinct where I observed the works of the stations and rode in patrol cars.

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All approximate 50 drawings filled the Yale University jury area and faced the jurors consisting of Vincent Scully, Sir James Sterling, Paul Rudolf, Charles Moore, Peter Millard, King Lui Wu and Phillip Johnson.Unlike any of the jury members, before coming to Yale I had designed skyscrapers, public works, multi-family housing and high -end commercial interiors in Manhattans competitive real estate market.

I had already designed a university under Edward D. Stone, office building under Khan and Jacobs and holy shrines under Frederick Kiesler.As much as educators spoke of conceptual metaphors they did little to teach about the technical metaphor. It was both the technical and conceptual metaphor I choose to bring together in this micro project.

From site selection, site planning to the knitting together of program input from the community planning boardsI can only hope it to be as much an aesthetic experience for you as it was for me,
Lieutenant Goodale and the jury.
Keep in mind this was all before computer aided design was even an embryo and when draftsmanship was appreciated for the art it actually was.
In fact, my works were so well appreciated that when he published his book on the work of his office, Morris Lapidus included several of my drawings as examples.

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Sasha Illich