Over the past 30 years, I've interviewed dozens of artists, architects and designers as a staff writer or contributing editor to various US and UK periodicals, exhibition catalogues and monographs. My book Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me A Bauhaus: Portraits in Architecture and Design (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020) brings together twenty-six of these major profiles. The following list gives the title and position of each interviewee at the time of publication; an asterisk denotes a profile included in DWBMAB.
Ron Arad, architect and designer World of Interiors, UK, 1988
Arquitectonica*, architects, Miami. Blueprint, London 1988
Balsmeyer & Everett, film titles designers, New York. Sight & Sound (British Film Institute), UK, 1994
Michael Bloomberg*, CEO, Bloomberg Inc., New York. MEDIUM (Mohawk Mills), 1997
Richard Bryant, architectural photographer, London. Blueprint, UK, 1990
Muriel Cooper*, professor + founder, Visible Language Workshop, MIT Media Lab, I.D. Magazine 1994
Coop Himmelblau*, architects, Vienna. Blueprint, UK 1998
Duany & Plater-Zyberk*, architects, Miami. Blueprint, UK 1986
Diller & Scofidio, architects, New York. Blueprint, UK, 1987
Peter Eisenman*, architect, New York. Blueprint, UK 1985
Michael Eisner*, CEO, Walt Disney Company, Los Angeles. Blueprint, UK, 1991 (republished in Ottagono, Italy, 1991)
Walker Evans, photographer. frieze, UK, 1994
William Forsythe, director, the Frankfurt Ballet. Blueprint, UK 1990
Ben Fry*, information designer, Cambridge MA. Else/Where: Mapping: New Cartographies of Networks and Territories, Design Institute/U Minnesota Press, 2006
Frank Gehry*, architect, Los Angeles. Blueprint, UK, 1987
Georgina Godley, Clothing Designer, London. Blueprint, UK, 1990
Shannon Goff, sculptor/ceramist, Miles to Empty (artist monograph), 2016
Piers Gough, architect, London. The Independent, UK, 1988
Michael Graves, architect, Princeton, NJ. Blueprint, UK, 1991
Michael Graves*, architect. Michael Graves monograph, Ernst & Sohn, Germany, 1995
Michael Graves, architect. Michael Graves: Buildings and Projects Volume III, Rizzoli, New York, 1995
April Greiman*, graphic designer, Los Angeles. April Greiman monograph, arc-en-rêve centre for architecture, Bordeaux, 1994
Marie Hermann, ceramic sculptor, Bloomfield Hills MI. Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, IL, 2011
Steven Holl, architect, New York. Blueprint, UK, 1987
Philip Johnson*, architect, New York (on his 80th birthday). Blueprint, UK, 1987
Philip Johnson*, architect, New York (on his 90th birthday). Blueprint, UK, 1997
Ed Jones, architect, Toronto/London. Blueprint, UK, 1996
Larry Keeley, CEO, Doblin Group, Chicago. Mohawk Papers, US, 1992
Larry Keeley, CEO, Doblin Group, Chicago. I.D. Magazine, 1994
Robin Kinross, typographic historian, founder, Hyphen Press, London. I.D. Magazine, 2006
Kasper König, curator, Frankfurt. Blueprint, UK, 1990
Rem Koolhaas*, architect, Rotterdam. Blueprint, UK, 1991
Edward Lachman, cinematographer, New York. Sight & Sound, UK 1991
Phyllis Lambert*, founder, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Blueprint, UK, 1990
Vittorio Lampugnani, director, Frankfurt Architecture Museum. Blueprint, UK, 1990
Annie Leibovitz, photographer, New York. The Independent, UK, 1990
The London Project, collective of emerging New York-based architects. Blueprint, UK, 1987
Berthold Lubetkin*, retired architect and sheep farmer, Bristol, UK. Building Design, UK, 1981
Julie Mehretu, artist, New York. ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING, Design Institute/U Minnesota Press, 2006
Richard Meier, architect, New York. The Independent, UK
Sigi Moeslinger + Masamichi Udagawa, founders, Antenna Design, NY. Artists Space, 2001
Jean Nouvel, architect, Paris. The Independent, UK, 1988
John Pawson, architect, London. HG magazine, US, 1991
Andrée Putman*, designer, Paris. Blueprint, UK, 1985
Paul Rand*, graphic design and educator, Connecticut, US. I.D. Magazine, US, 1993, republished in Looking Closer, Allworth Press, 1993
Mitchel Resnick, professor, MIT Media Lab. IF/THEN: PLAY—Design Implications of New Media, 1999
David Rockwell*, architect, New York. I.D. Magazine, US, 1996
Terence Riley, chief curator, Department of Architecture & Design, MoMA, NY. Blueprint, UK, 1993
Sterling Ruby, artist, Los Angeles. Ceramic Review, UK, 2011
Anders Ruhwald, ceramic sculptor, Bloomfields Hills, MI. Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, 2011
Christopher Russell, ceramic artist, New York. CFile, 2016
Bob Stein*, CEO, Voyager Company, New York. I.D. Magazine, US, 1995; and Mohawk Papers, 1995
Juliet Schor, professor of Economics, Harvard University. I.D. Magazine, US, 1994
Julie Snow*, architect, Minneapolis. Julie Snow Architects, Princeton Architectural Press, 2005
Robert A. M. Stern, architect, New York. Blueprint, UK, 1991
Lisa Strausfeld*, information architect, New York. Profile: Pentagram Design, Phaidon, 2005
Twyla Tharp, choreographer, New York. Tharp! Dance Ink, US, 1996
Gordon Thompson III, head of Research and Design Development, Nike Inc. frieze, UK, 1997
Douglas Trumbull, CEO Ridefilm, MA. Sight & Sound, UK, 1995
Tod Williams + Billie Tsien, architects, New York. Blueprint, UK, 1987
Uri Tzaig, artist, Tel Aviv. IF/THEN: PLAY, Netherlands Design Institute/BIS, 1998
Julyan Wickham, architect, London. The Independent, UK, 1988
James Welling, photographer, New York. Arts Club of Chicago (solo exhibition), 1994
Jeremy Wood, GPS artist, London. ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING, Design Institute, 2006
Richard Saul Wurman*, founder, TED conferences, Newport RI. I.D. Magazine, US, 1994
Sir Christopher Wren*, architect, London. The Independent newspaper, UK, 1990