SUMMARY

The interview traces Lars Spuybroek’s high middle-class Dutch family background in Rotterdam, with an artist father (dean at art academy) and homemaker mother with architectural ambitions, fostering early exposure to architects, museums, buildings, and culture via the 1% art rule. It highlights his childhood drawings, soft-left politics, Delft education influenced by Rossi and Koolhaas, OMA work, and PhD on diagrams. It emphasizes his teaching at USC/Georgia Tech, founding NOX, reflections on theory’s shift from 1970s critical/postmodern (Tafuri, Lefebvre) to 1990s digital/pragmatic eras, and innovative pedagogy like theory diagrams for large professional programs, focusing on appropriation, inhabitation, and pluralist negotiation.