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.