The interview traces Lars Spuybroek’s upper-middle-class Dutch family background in Rotterdam. His father was an artist and dean of an art academy, while his mother was a homemaker with architectural ambitions. This background fostered his early exposure to architects, museums, buildings, and culture through the 1% art rule. The interview highlights his childhood drawings, soft-left politics, education at Delft shaped by Rossi and Koolhaas, work at OMA, and PhD research on diagrams. It also covers his teaching at USC and Georgia Tech, the founding of NOX, and his reflections on the shift in architectural theory from the critical and postmodern approaches of the 1970s, represented by Tafuri and Lefebvre, to the digital and pragmatic approaches of the 1990s. It also discusses innovative pedagogical methods such as the use of theory diagrams in large professional programs, with a focus on appropriation, inhabitation, and pluralist negotiation.