John Cuningham on Leadership ~ (The Mary Hanson Show)

John Cuningham, FAIA, sits down with Mary to talk about his career as an award winning architect and professor at the University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture. John founded the Cuningham Group in 1968 and his group, now called Cuningham, has offices around the United States and abroad. John joins Mary’s “Minnesota Leaders” ongoing series and shares in this interview insights about the life of an architect, about urban design and Modernism. John also talks about his view of architecture as a field to promote service to the community. He is known for his firm’s “listening” skills when working with clients as well as his mentoring of young architects. Among his many awards is the AIA Minnesota Gold Medal, the highest individual architectural honor in the state.

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Another excellent interview getting to the nuts and bolts of architecture...abstract and concrete--and a great bowtie!