'Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story' tells the story of

a black architect....'Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story' tells the story of: But Williams’s ability to cultivate personal and professional relationships with Hollywood’s wealthy, white community was not without injury. “Everything he did was to make the client feel comfortable,” Vance says. “That’s where the upside-down technique came from.” Sadly, and impressively, Williams developed a style of drawing his design sketches in an inverted fashion, because it allowed him to sit across from his white clients, knowing they’d prefer to not sit next to him.