Sublime

Carpenter

The editor steps back, views the work holistically, and supports its full potential. The editor is the professional in the poet.

At the same time, he argued, the desire to attract and satisfy students as though they are mere customers leads to academic coddling, in the form of easy grades and expensive facilities and entertainments, such as intercollegiate athletic teams.

He wanted a small office, with little enough overhead that he could afford to focus on work he cared about.

make practical and profitable buildings

he believed that good feedback improved his work.

He’s an architect’s architect; he told me he’s interested in how buildings can help do the metaphysical work of what the philosopher Martin Heidegger called true dwelling—a social triad made of people, one to another and in their environments.

driving ambition and his intense commitment to work,

four attributes of modern public libraries.