To the Editor:

“Architecture’s Ugly Ducklings May Not Get Time to Be Swans” (front page, April 7) brings up a timeless subject: getting rid of buildings that no longer fit into our urban fabric because stylistically they are outmoded.

As a result, the eminent architect Paul Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center in Goshen, N.Y., faces demolition. That’s like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Nearly 50 years ago, city fathers decided that McKim, Mead & White’s Penn Station no longer fit with the growing modernism of Manhattan’s renewal, and it was demolished. We now regret this hasty action.

Architecture is not like fashion; buildings are meant to last, and if necessary renovated to accommodate the changes that naturally occur over time.