The weather that day was mild, bright, and crisp. I was mak­ing last minute prepa­ra­tions for a review I had that day at Columbia’s GSAPP. A dap­per gen­tle­man with white hair and thin rimmed cir­cu­lar glass begs my par­don and pro­ceeds to ask me about the stu­dios and the school in gen­eral. “My, you all are crammed together in here,” he remarks. “Yes, appar­ently it induces cre­ativ­ity, or so the dean would have us believe,” I reply. [Read more]