It wasn't an architect who did this, but if it had been an architect, it would have been a good day's work: there was a marketing person who convince….

There are dangers surrounding innocuousness and consensus and habit. ISO organizes hundreds of people on technical committees who are, no doubt, tryi….

Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines might….

In the context of the kind of infrastructure space I'm looking at, I'm making a very unlikely argument by saying that all the stuff that's repeated, ….

There is a comfort with design that may be a detail, rather than a building; comfort with form that is time-released and never finished. How do you r….

It's funny how much one learns from context. Throughout that entire visit to Kenya, with all its meetings, there was an experience of the place that ….

Architects and urbanists are fascinated with cities that are shrinking, like the Rust Belt cities. Or, alternatively, we are fascinated with the grow….

I thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in the university. The lights w….

I love making object form; I wish I was doing more of it. I admire the research of my colleagues, and sometimes it makes me sad when their beautiful ….

Few would look at a concrete highway system or an electrical grid and perceive agency in their static arrangement, spaces and urban arrangements are ….

It may be unfathomable in architecture, but it is very practical, or routine, for a person in theater to use action. You have the line, "Come home, s….

The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the one thing I've been ….

It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be part of someone else's l….

If you're steering a boat down a river, it's not something about which you can know that. You can only know how to do it. It's unfinished, it has no ….

Whether railroads or electricity or the Internet, there is always some sense that this is the new, redemptive platform - that finally, finally, we've….

In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothi….