Contains printed schedule of speakers and audio recordings of individual lectures. Many of the 86 audio recordings of the lectures have been digitized.

Giuseppe Zambonini defines, in an interview for Yale Perspecta 24, the Open Atelier of Design (OAD) design-build practice, citing Scarpa, Kahn, Botta as positive examples. Dearth of vocational schools for craftspeople in the US; early work in radio. Defines quality. Donald Judd's plywood boxes: “extreme high quality not necessarily in the material but in the cut." Richard Serra’s sculpture: “extraordinary quality of strength, simplicity expressed by one material cut and presented in a certain way.” Division of labor and the impact on the worker.

Photographs used in Zambonini's article Notes for a Theory of Making in a Time of Necessity, Perspecta 24 (1988): 2-24. Also includes an audio recording of an interview for the article, in which Zambonini defines the Open Atelier of Design design-build practice.