The man to call when modernism loses its erection

Charles Renfro 

BW: Are there good places for the students to have sex?
CR: Well, they're a little open. But arent't we supposed not to talk about sex?
BW: Are you kidding? This is PIN-UP magazine!
Cr: [Laughs] Okay, well I guess you could penetrate back and forth, and there's a lot of gazing back and forth, a lot of spatial penetration. You can do with the building what you want. We're trying to make it a sort of holodeck: loft spaces where you can realize your fantasies. There's been a lot of discussion in the architectural world about the ability of a building to engineer behavior. There was a lot of pseudoscientific social research started in the 70s that is being rethought with more interest in is sensual less objective, and more subjective aspects. How can architecture in the public realm promote behavior that's spontaneous and unplanned? [...]

[C. Renfro talking about Brown University's new Creative Arts Center, interviewed by B. Widdicombe on PIN-UP magazine]