It' s somehow inadequate to call Antoine Predock an architect. On the subject of buildings, he says: "The best of them are documentary and healing." On sites, where the buildings sit: "The information is buried there, in the topography, the human history, the spirit of its legacies as well as current uses." On design: "There really is a choreographic imperative, something I learned from a dancer, my ex-wife. Buildings are personal encounters...moving through them is processional, through a series of compressed episodic vantage points." Antoine Predock's body of work has grown as much in scale and variety as in influence since 1980, veering from the simple but bold California lifeguard cage to the desertlike mass of his Nelson Fine Arts Center at Arizona State University in Tempe. The 1970s were active as well for Predock, with work on designs at college campuses. His first original design plan — 20 single-family residences in New Mexico designed and built from 1970 to 1987 — is considered by architecture critics and historians to be a highly original development whose boldness and utility remain fresh.