About Welcome to Your World
“This is extremely powerful stuff.”
— Faith Rose, NYC Public Design Commission
“Lucidly written in beautiful prose… will stimulate and delight professionals, students, and non-professionals alike.”
— Nader Tehrani, Dean, Cooper Union School of Architecture
“Makes an otherwise impenetrable topic accessible to a wider audience.”
— A Daily Dose of Architecture
“Her fresh perspective is deep, exciting, and optimistic.”
— Booklist
About me
I’ve gotten a PhD (Art History) from Columbia. I’ve been a professor at Harvard. I was the architecture critic for The New Republic for a decade. I’ve written for the New York Times and dozens of other national and international publications. My Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives is widely credited with helping to ignite the emerging field of neuroarchitecture, which is also presented in the film I made (with Sarah Robinson and Mary Murphy), What Design Can Do. The books, essays, and the film have won acclaim and some prizes. All that is nice. What I am, above all, is a writer.
