ABSTRACT
Robert LeRicolais was a gentle revolutionary with a crew-cut in the time of the flower children, a Gallic sense of humor, and irreverence for almost everything that was status quo. Robert employed the same structure to create vast domed areas. As the students loaded the structures, Robert would look on with glee waiting patiently. It was Robert's belief that the huge cantilevered structures that were built all across America were not only terribly ugly but also terribly wasteful. Another structure in the studio that had escaped demolition was the model of a disk that Robert said would be about fifty feet in diameter. It was all so formal with dark suited engineers wearing highly polished black shoes and then Robert in his best wrinkled outfit. The entourage finally emerged and went off to dinner; in our minds it was to celebrate this great scientific breakthrough that Robert's inventions would mean to mankind.
