Shaped To Suit

When I saw your article about that merry gang of architect-builders, the Jersey Devil (AMERICAN SCENE, April 27), I was impressed. Imagine, a house shaped like a football! But there was no modest house in the shape of a coffee cup for a waitress or Ralph Kramden for a bus driver. Unfortunately, these renegade architects, for all their noble ideals, are merely creating playgrounds for the wealthy. Come on, build me, a simple workingman, a house that looks like a guitar or a fox terrier.

Jeff Boccadutre

Elmwood Park, N.J.

Call the houses designed by the Jersey Devil irreverent, call them expressionistic, but also call them ugly and ostentatious.

Robin F. Lawson

Salem, Mass.

As a resident of Greater Cleveland, I think our city deserves to be the home for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. However, when Architect Steve Bandanes says he would like to build it in the shape of a pair of blue jeans, that is going too far. Let him build his jokes elsewhere.

Barbara Wolpaw Drossin

Shaker Heights, Ohio