Architecture as a cultural negotiator

When Kjetil Trædal Thorsen speaks about architecture, he rarely begins with buildings. The co-founder of Snøhetta is more interested in relationships: between people and place, city and landscape, culture and responsibility, the known present and the future we have not yet learned how to picture.In conversation, his answers move across public space, climate, social equity, Indigenous knowledge, disciplinary boundaries and the strange optimism required to design anything at all. That