![]() ![]() Right now I'm working on a book set in the 1880s in New York City, about a society architect who becomes a criminal. What's next: "When I started, my idea was to base the novels I would write on architecture. It's the same thing with writing a novel." Once you have a steel structure, you in-fill the details. The parallel in writing: that steel structure would be the plot, which has to be really strong. In the begininng, he doesn't want to do this, he's in it for the money and he's a bit of an anti-Semite."Īrchitecture and novel-writing: "With a building, when you start, you build a steel structure. The moral ambiguity of his character: "I wanted him to change over the course of the novel, to really gain a sense of humanity within himself. The inspiration: "Priest holes designed in houses in Elizabethan England as temporary hiding places (during a period when Catholicism was repressed)." I did little drawings to see if they would work." The clever hiding places Lucien designs for Jews: "I tried to make them as realistic as possible architecturally. An architect who specializes in historic preservation, he now lives in Westminster, Md. A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary mans unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the Second World War.1942,Paris.Architect Lucien. Quick bio: Belfoure, 59, grew up in the Baltimore suburbs, and attended the Pratt Institute and Columbia University. We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. ![]()
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