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.