The American architect Hugh Stubbins (1912-2006), who began his career as Walter Gropius's assistant at Harvard, saw his field as all-encompassing and his work as modest within it: -I think of architecture not as individual buildings but as the whole fabric of our physical environment. Architecture is the man-made world in its totality...It is seldom, if ever, that one can design the whole fabric.- Any disappointment Stubbins felt with the human inability to oversee -the man-made world in its totality, - he channeled into becoming one of the most important international architects of post-war...