October 30, 2020
Harriet Pattison’s memoir, “Our Days Are Like Full Years,” now available from Yale Press

Landscape architect Harriet Pattison celebrated her 92nd birthday and the launch of her memoir on October 29th with a Zoom event hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives and Yale Press, her publisher. More than a decade in the making, Our Days Are Like Full Years a richly-illustrated 438 page book designed by Laura Lindgren. Paul Goldberger writes: “Part memoir, part collection of letters, part architecture treatise, and part love story, Harriet Pattison’s Our Days Are Like Full Years takes you inside the architect Louis Kahn’s mind and, even more, inside his heart. This is the saga of a devil’s bargain with a saint, and it is at once poignant and triumphant. Pattison has written a magnificent book, filled with warmth, elegance, insight, and grace.”

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300223125/our-days-are-full-years