To the editor: In 1985, I joined a Cooperative Extension Course in UCLA in landscape architecture (“Louis Naidorf, architect behind the iconic Capitol Records building in Los Angeles, dies at 96”, August 14). Our teachers were professionals in the field of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning.
While many of them were known, or would be well known in the future, none stood out more than Louis Naidorf. I could disarm any tension with a joke, I could reassure any student with a kind word and a smile, and it was one of the most humble people I have met.
Once I became the theme of one of his stories for a class project, which made me become bright red. Of course, at the end of its hilarious story, we all laugh together, while Naidorf understood the humor in how he told his story. The world has lost a great presence and a very big man.
Brett Kiesel, Altadena
