Design for living

Re: Lisa Bloomfield’s letter on Steven Ehrlich’s design of the Art Center at Orange Coast College (May 25): I have designed or participated in the design of about 300 projects in my career, primarily in Southern California. My projects insist on being functionally relevant because if they are not, I get creamed. I do restaurants. I do the kitchens and I do the interiors of many of them. Restaurants are organic whole deals. Guys like Ehrlich apparently don’t have to answer to anybody but their aesthetic critics.

John Stewart

Ventura