With Words Build Worlds, Sarah M. Whiting, Dean and Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture, invites three distinct voices from the world of contemporary publishing to the GSD for a conversation around the power and importance of the written word within the design fields now. Nicolai Ouroussoff, Florencia Rodriguez, and Thomas Weaver come together from different corners of the criticism, journalism, print and digital media, and editorial fields to discuss what a commitment to the curation and publication of design discourse through writing means in this moment in time.

As Senior Loeb Scholars within the Loeb Fellowship program, Ouroussoff, Rodriguez, and Weaver will spend a week at the GSD interacting with students, faculty, and Loeb Fellows and offering new and different perspectives on the range of issues we are facing within the design disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning and design.