Building with Writing

Stan Allen and Michael Meredith talk about the role of teaching in relation to writing and practicing and how they mutually form each other. 

Stan Allen is an architect, writer, educator, and former dean of Princeton University   School of Architecture.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Stan Allen

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Michael Meredith talks to Hilary Sample about her experience with Stan Allen as his first thesis student at Princeton Univeristy, and architectural education at the turn of the century.

Hilary Sample teaches and runs a small practice with Michael Meredith.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Hilary Sample

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Michael Meredith talks to Diana Agrest and Mario Gandelsonas about their experience at Cooper Union and Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, and Stan Allen as a student and later employee of them. 

Diana Agrest is a Professor of Architecture at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art. Together with Mario Gandelsonas, They founded Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects. 

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Stan Allen

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Stan Allen and Michael Meredith talk about one of Stan Allen’s most well-known texts, From Object to Field: Field Conditions in Architecture and Urbanism, and how the ideas explored in the piece translate into different scales across object, urban, and landscape. 

Stan Allen is an architect, writer, educator, and former dean of Princeton University   School of Architecture.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Stan Allen

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang 

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Michael Meredith talks to Liz Diller about her common experience as Stan Allen since the 1970s at Cooper Union, Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, and later Princeton University. 

Liz Diller is an architect, partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Professor at Princeton University School of Architecture.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Stan Allen

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Stan Allen and Michael Meredith talk about Things in the Making—Contemporary Architecture and the Pragmatist Imagination at MoMA in 2000, and role of pragmatism in Stan Allen's own practice.

Stan Allen is an architect, writer, educator, and former dean of Princeton University School of Architecture.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Stan Allen

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Stan Allen and Michael Meredith discuss the text Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays by Robin Evans, first published in 1986, an influential piece in shaping Stan’s thinking around architectural drawing specifically, and the agency of architecture as a projective practice in general. 

Stan Allen is an architect, writer, educator, and former dean of Princeton University School of Architecture.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Stan Allen

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Michael Meredith discusses with Greg Lynn about his experience with Stan Allen when they were graduate students at Princeton University School of Architecture. 

Greg Lynn is an architect, founder of the Greg Lynn FORM office. He is a professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Greg Lynn

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Stan Allen and Michael Meredith talk about The Solitude of Buildings by Rafael Moneo, as well as Stan Allen’s experience working for Rafael Moneo as a young architect.

Stan Allen is an architect, writer, educator, and former dean of Princeton University   School of Architecture.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Stan Allen

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Michael Meredith talks to Jesse Reiser about his experience with Stan Allen as students at Cooper Union, and later as partners, colleagues and friends.

Jesse Reiser is an architect and professor at Princeton University School of Architecture. Together with Nanako Umemoto, they co-founded the New York-based architecture firm Reiser + Umemoto.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Jesse Reiser

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Stan Allen and Michael Meredith discuss the text Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi, published in 1966. They talk about architecture education, writing, and pragmatism, among other topics. While Stan first encountered the book as a freshman at Brown University in 1975, the text made perhaps a more pronounced return to Stan’s practice in the recent decade. 

Stan Allen is an architect, writer, educator, and former dean of Princeton University School of Architecture.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Stan Allen

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Michael Meredith talks to Mark Lee about Stan Allen’s position in the field through his trajectory as an architect, educator, writer and so on.  

Mark Lee is an architect and educator. He is the principal and founding partner of the Los Angeles-based architecture firm Johnston Marklee.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Mark Lee

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.

Stan Allen and Michael Meredith trace through Stan Allen’s practice as an architect, and how the body of work, although not necessarily coherent, is produced through three different ways of engaging with the discipline: building, writing and teaching. 

Stan Allen is an architect, writer, educator, and former dean of Princeton University   School of Architecture.

Michael Meredith teaches and runs a small practice with Hilary Sample.

Guest: Stan Allen

Host: Michael Meredith 

Editor: Michael Meredith, Bruce Hongming Liang

These conversations were recorded in parallel to the exhibition Building with Writing at Princeton University School of Architecture in Spring 2025, on the work of Stan Allen.