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“But people just want it both ways. Having a giant code and still having a design charrette where people argue—those things are correlated!”

A 72-hour, coffee-fueled design charrette — an intense period of design or planning activity — in Chevy Chase resulted in a 3-D model of what the new house would become.

Two men died, one a computer engineer aged 44 who was killed while inside the butcher’s shop; the second, Julien Vinson, 55, owner of La Charrette, a café-theatre, who was stabbed in the street trying to protect his 12-year-old son.

When Time magazine devoted a full page to the charrette process in 1970, the author of the piece barely mentioned Riddick.

For Riddick, directing a charrette was a cross between leading a marathon revival meeting and walking a tightrope for ten days straight.