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…

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

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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…

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

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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 …

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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 …

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

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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 …

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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…

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