Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. less than 1 minute read
I’m often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That’s impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. less than 1 minute read
The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities. less than 1 minute read
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. less than 1 minute read
My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology. less than 1 minute read
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. less than 1 minute read
I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer. less than 1 minute read
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That’s when I started to be interested in girls. less than 1 minute read
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. less than 1 minute read
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun. less than 1 minute read
