This interview with Catherine Ingraham reflects on her career as an architectural theorist. Having grown up around an architectural studio, she developed an early connection to the field, although her formal academic training culminated in a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Johns Hopkins University. Ingraham distinguishes between history and theory, explaining how theoretical inquiry challenged linear historical narratives and prompted architecture to reconsider its own foundations. She also discusses chairing the graduate architecture program at Pratt Institute, co-teaching at Harvard, and contributing to architectural discourse through collaborations with figures such as K. Michael Hays and Jeff Kipnis. Ingraham understands architecture as deeply intertwined with other disciplines and reflects on the growing institutional difficulty contemporary scholars face in pursuing the kinds of interdisciplinary transitions that shaped her own career.