Perhaps that quality which existed, in spite of the equipoise against it, in Sir Howard, was fidelity in friendship.

To claim his artistdom and his individuality Baldwin eventually fled the racially divided United States, as several other Black artists did. Many of the true artists' art suffered when they were part of the Black group, instead of being seen as an individual: as an artist, as opposed to the Black artist.

I asked him what principles he felt should underly the care provided during such a voyage.

Thereafter, the process of 'Brazilianisation' went ahead, marked by curiously similar phases of autochthonous adaptation and recreation, and each time there was a reaffirmation of that simple gracefulness and delicate sensualism which became eventually the distinctive characteristic of the country's best architecture.