SUMMARY

The interview focuses on how the speaker’s upbringing, education, and intellectual influences shaped his thinking about architecture. He discusses growing up with limited means, the importance of education, and how school and teachers sparked his interest in architecture over art. The conversation covers his architectural training, early professional work in Britain, and his belief in architecture as a social and civic project tied to modernism. It also highlights how moving to the United States for graduate study exposed him to sociology, theory, and interdisciplinary ideas, which shifted his focus from practice toward research, writing, and understanding cities and architecture within broader social and historical contexts.