Attending design school in the mid-1970s, most professors were apostles of the late Le Corbusier. We studied his extensive list of buildings, yet most professors were fixated on the small French Roman Catholic Chapel called Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. On the other hand I loved his contemporary straight-lined Villa Savoye - “House as Machine”. At that time I did not understand he was so accomplished, as Ernesto N. Rogers wrote in an 1963 opinion piece, he was a “painter, sculptor, architect, and poet - like Michelangelo, who styled himself this peerless poet of our age has contrived to express contemporary life.” All these various listed activities required a pencil or charcoal. He was known for drawing all the time and was attributed the comment “why talk when you can draw”. Which would make sense, the communication tool of an artist, designer, architect and poet is the pencil. You can erase, modify, change your thoughts and clarify, likewise with charcoal, you can smudge or...