The interview traces Michael Meredith’s middle-class suburban upbringing in upstate New York, with a Canadian mother who worked as a teacher and a father who was an engineer. Both emphasized education and exposure to the arts through private lessons. It highlights his shy childhood and use of drawings and cartoons to communicate, his library-fueled interest in modern art and copies of Picasso, his high school experiments with architecture and graphic design, and his university education combining art and architecture. It also covers the founding of MOS Architects, parametric experiments such as the puppet theater, his post-2008 critiques of elite complexity and the effects of market crashes, influences including Jacques Rancière’s egalitarian aesthetics and politics, post-medium specificity, and his persistent doubts about architectural norms in favor of accessible, questioning forms of practice.