Members of the Architects' Collaborative cling on to modern art outside their Harvard Graduate Center, 1949. Gropius' feet are closest to the ground. (Source: Andrew Saint, The Image of the Architect.)

The Czech scientist is plunged in melancholy, and as a sort of consolation, the idea occurs to him that from the period of his labor in construction he still retains a material and palpable souvenir: an excellent physique. A discreet smile of satisfaction plays over his face, for he is certain that among the people here, no one has muscles like his.

Milan Kundera, Slowness