VISHAAN CHAKRABARTI is a partner at SHoP Architects, leading major architecture and urban development efforts worldwide, and Holliday Professor and Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate at Columbia University. His recent book, A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America (Metropolis Books, 2013), argues that a more urban United States would result in a more prosperous, sustainable, joyous, and socially mobile nation. 

Jack of All Trades
Vishaan Chakrabarti

Vishaan Chakrabarti speaks with inter·punct about urbanism and architecture's societal obligations. Read the interview on the inter·punct website.

inter·punct is a journal for architecture founded by students at CMU and supported by the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.