ATTEND LIVE INTERVIEW FEATURING JAMES CARPENTER

This free event will be recorded for broadcast on Northeast Public Radio. For more information and to hear past episodes, visit PersonPlaceThing.org. Reserve your seat by following this link to Eventbrite.

Person Place Thing is an interview show hosted by Randy Cohen based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care about.

Cohen’s guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result: surprising stories from great speakers. This installment of Person Place Thing will be a conversation with James Carpenter, founder and president of Studio James Carpenter / JCDA.

Speakers:
Randy Cohen, Host, Person Place Thing
James Carpenter, founder Studio James Carpenter / JCDA
Live music by Piedmont Bluz

James Carpenter has worked at the intersection of environment, architecture, fine art, and engineering for nearly 50 years, advancing a distinctive vision based on the use of natural light as the foundational element of the built environment. Carpenter founded the cross-disciplinary design firm Studio James Carpenter / JCDA in 1979 to support the application of these aesthetic principles to large-scale building projects.

Carpenter has been recognized with numerous national and international awards, including an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. James is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in sculpture and a Loeb Fellow of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is an Associate Member of the AIA, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and Honorary Royal Designer for Industry of the Royal Society of Arts.

Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman,” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for The New York Times Magazine. His most recent book, Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything, was published by Chronicle.

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