KINDERTEHUIS IN AMSTERDAM
ORFANATO MUNICIPAL, AMSTELVEENSEWEG, AMSTERDAM, 1955-1960

Ámsterdam July 23, 1959

Your orphanage is excellent! The understanding and logic of its design is in the ....(?)of economy which becomes a natural poetry. You have sacrificed nothing but instead have earned the undeniable right to include a good solution for every fundamental. You are thoroughly educated in the tools of our evolving moment. Am sorry not to have met you.

Buckminster Fuller

I would like to conclude here, but first I mean to show my appreciation to Aldo who talked simply about a door. I think it is a wonderful thing to review the aspects of architecture from that sense. The mere fact that one can get totally occupied with this sort of thing is wonderful because from it can grow many wonderful things; it could lead a man to realizations which go beyond the problem of a door or gateway.

Louis Kahn – Talk at the conclusion of the Otterlo Congress 1959