SUMMARY

The interview traces Heather Roberge’s working-class family background as a first-gen college student, public school education, and entry into architecture at Ohio State (1989), influenced by Kipnis and Lynn on political diagrams, digital techniques, and theory seminars. It highlights her graduate experiences (AA exchange, Yokohama competition), professional roles with Lynn’s office, and academic career at Pratt and UCLA (tenure, chair). It emphasizes her research on tectonics, material systems, and views on theory’s evolution from 1990s postmodernism/digital innovation to 2000s–2010s challenges like climate integration, pluralism, globalization, and institutional shifts toward contingency and distributed expertise.