Almost every-body thinks not in single words, nor yet in con1plete sentences, butin blobs of ideas and words between the two-say, a subject withtwo or three notions clinging to it that one wants to bring out.That first portion once put in shape pulls along another andanother, and by then one probably has a sentence, compound orcomplex. It is very difficult to think more extensively in onestroke, though it often happens that the fragments come so fast,the next pushing the one in front out of sight, that the blur inter-feres with the task of formulation.

Mr. Speyer’s most famous work is the Ben Rose House near Chicago, a modern glass box known for its supporting role in the 1986 movie ”Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Mr. Speyer studied architecture under famed modernist Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and later became curator of 20th century painting and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.