architects

To be a great architect — or painter or poet or almost anything — do you need a great patron? Certainly that helps, but according to architects Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson, you have to bring the talent and vision and invention. The conversation takes places at the Louis Armstrong Center, a building they designed.

Does use determine design, or does design shape our behavior? Architect Claire Weisz asserts the latter: “A certain object does make you behave a certain way or do certain things.” Her example? A humble lime-squeezer. Designing large and small. Produced with the National Academy of Design.

Israeli-American architect Eran Chen likes buildings, of course, but it’s the spaces between buildings that he loves. “It’s a blur between public and private, it’s a stage, it’s sort of an in-between territory, a threshold to the city, a place of in-between.”

The Linde Center for Music and Learning is designed by William Rawn Associates Architects, led by William Rawn and Cliff Gayley, and is the largest…