Alex is an urban designer and architect from San Francisco. He’s a founding partner of Collective Operations (CO) and teaches urban design at Harvard GSD. In this conversation, Alex discusses how he fell in love with cities, how Steph Curry inspired his approach to his career, and his motivations as a teacher, urban designer, architect, and developer.
Highlights
1:17 When and where Alex fell in love with cities
8:00 Perceptorship at DS+R
12:15 First days at OMA
15:10 The economics of towers
17:45 What motivated Alex to move into development
21:50 Taking a vacation after OMA
24:00 How Alex got into teaching
28:41 How Steph Curry inspired Alex to play with freedom and joy
39:00 The three questions for a successful project
40:00 Practice as a way to talk beyond the discipline
43:27 Alex’s ideas for the Most Podern Podcast
47:50 Introducing Season 2: Careers
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