Mr. & Mrs. Architect

The beauty – and complexity and contradiction  – of designing with a spouse.

By Justin Davidson, New York Magazine
June 16, 2013

Architecture is an art that thrives on argument. The silent battles that poets and sculptors wage with themselves, architects need to articulate. Because a skyscraper costs so much more than a sonnet, because in the end others will build it, and because the finished product won’t stand isolated on a page or a pedestal, people who design buildings expend their creative energies suggesting, defending, criticizing, revising, and adjusting to a thousand external needs. And since you can argue creatively only with someone you trust, what better sparring partner than a spouse? More …