ABSTRACT
The spring 1964 faculty seminars conducted by Professor Horst Rittel, which are represented in the present book, constituted the most noteworthy event in the history of the School of Architecture of the University of California at Berkeley. Because of the uniqueness of the occurrence and the scope of its subject, this attribution may include almost any other architecture school. It is doubtful that anything even remotely similar had ever taken place at Berkeley before this event, and I can attest that nothing approaching it has happened since. The fact that the once-a-week evening meetings were voluntarily attended throughout the term by virtually the entire faculty was remarkable in itself.
