Gsapp Conversations

Third-year MArch student Christine Giorgio speaks with Sheila Kennedy and J. Frano Violich, of Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA MATx) in advance of their lecture at the school on October 1, 2018. Their projects engage pressing climate change issues, emerging technology, and user agency. “In crisis situations we often get into a defense mode: build a wall, build a barricade, stop it from coming in. When one uses the imagination, you begin to think of ways to go outside of that direct, hard approach toward how to deal with these crises.” - J. Frano Violich