Episode 1 of 3 in our Education Series

In this first episode of a three-part conversation with Paul Monson, Director of Architecture at Utah Valley University, we start at the foundation: what education is actually meant to do.Paul and I go back nearly twenty years to our time at the University of Notre Dame, and because of that shared background, this conversation is less about credentials and more about transformation. We talk about how architectural education is not just about learning how to design buildings, but about learning how to see the world differently.We begin with Paul’s story, from growing up interested in both art and science, to living in rural Japan, to discovering architecture through craft, construction, and stained glass. Long before he had the language for it, he was absorbing lessons about material, proportion, nature ...