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
Creative nonfiction comes in many genres. Writing about ideas and books for the New York Times and other publications. Writing about architecture and cities and how they shape us for the New Republic, Art in America, in my books on Louis Kahn and Welcome to Your World. Writing about experiences while on journeys to countries around the globe. Writing about mothers, about families, and mental health, and the struggles for each of them. Broad and disparate as these themes may be, what unites these many creative endeavors is the insistence on good thinking and good writing. I hope you will agree.I’ve gotten a PhD from Columbia. I’ve been a professor at Harvard. I was the architecture critic for the New Republic for a decade. My books and essays have won acclaim and prizes. All that is nice. But the proof is in the writing. So please have a look and judge for yourself.