Jim Stafford is an associate principal at Perkins+Will, which just received a National Building Museum Honor Award for civic innovation. He’s been practicing architecture in Southern California for more than 40 years, and his recent design work includes large-scale projects in India, Korea, China and Saudi Arabia. Below, he answers our In The Green Room Q&A.
Old-Timers
Les Miserables: Should critics who hated it reconsider, now that it’s lasted so long?
Shakespeare: The bard doesn’t translate well to the newer media.
by Addie Tsai
I slept to a monotonous record, a seasonless circle
looping my body into a string of invisible coils.
When it comes to public space, the comparison between Paris and Los Angeles isn’t entirely favorable, according to Michael Woo.
“Is it possible to think big in Los Angeles?” asked Woo, the dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona. “Is it possible for a public official to survive being tagged as a visionary?”
Barry Lynn asserts that monopolies dominate most every industry — and he may know well enough from his own work experience. “I’ve flipped burgers, and I’ve packed screws into bags and put those bags into boxes in a factory,” he writes in Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction. He’s moved furniture, entered data, hauled lumber, made deliveries, refilled soda machines, driven trucks. “I’ve worked for multinational corporations and the tiniest of family businesses,” he says. Below, Lynn reveals more about himself in our Green Room Q&A.
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