Boyd describes in detail his 1957 visit to Wisconsin to visit the 88-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyd reports Wright’s sharp quips about Philip Johnson and Le Corbusier before documenting his dismissal of Eero Saarinen and his buildings:

M.I.T.”fell in over young Saarinen’s buildings”. The old Saarinen, he said, had asked him to take Eero under his wing at Taliesin, but he wouldn’t because he didn’t believe him to be sincere. “He is mean. And imagine what they’d have said of me if I’d built arches that deflected 6” and had to be propped up!”. I asked him what he thought of the Kresge apart from the engineering. “Nothing. There’s nothing to be thought about there. A dome is the wrong shape for an auditorium in the first place. You stand in the middle and your voice comes back to you from everywhere. I learnt that when I was 15.” (He has designed a project where the auditorium roof is a plastic dish, filled with water and large fish.) And now they give young Saarinen an embassy in London! Who selected him: Dulles?” I told him it was a closed competition. “Who were the other invitees?” I started to tell him. “I’ve never heard of these people you’re mentioning,” he said, and spent a little time railing at all competitions: “mediocre judges selecting mediocrity…”.  (pdf)