This interview traces Heather Roberge’s working-class family background, public school education, and experience as a first-generation college student. She entered architecture at Ohio State in 1989, where Jeffrey Kipnis and Greg Lynn influenced her engagement with political diagrams, digital techniques, and theoretical seminars. Roberge also discussed her graduate experiences, including an exchange at the Architectural Association and participation in the Yokohama competition, her professional work with Lynn’s office, and her academic career at Pratt and UCLA, where she received tenure and served as chair. The interview emphasizes her research on tectonics and material systems, as well as her reflections on architectural theory’s evolution from 1990s postmodernism and digital experimentation to the challenges of the 2000s and 2010s, including climate, pluralism, globalization, contingency, and distributed expertise.