Is Backstory a Good Idea?

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In your second year at Syracuse University, you got in trouble for designing a townhouse with two different entry sequences along with narratives about who lived there and why they made the choices they had. "I've just always felt like backstory is a better way to... It's not better or worse, but it's my process"

As founder of the Rockwell Group, an award winning, cross-disciplinary architecture and design practice, David Rockwell has designed countless visual and spatial heartstoppers ranging from restaurants, hotels, airport terminals, and hospitals, to festivals, museum exhibitions, and Broadway sets. He joins to talk about his remarkable life and upcoming projects.