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Kagan’s original plan for their Seattle’s Burke Museum is spear- community in Seattle. home, a family in Melbourne heading a shift in the way natural makes the most of their mid- history museums are designed. century house’s modest footprint. The result: expanded access for all. 10 GRAY GRAY 11 HELLO roomandboard.com Barbara Kasten, CONSTRUCTS 1981–1982 (2019). ONE RECENT SUNDAY MORNING, I Photographs showed me in an emerald Such moments are the theme of this WAS VISITING MY PARENTS, WHO cap and gown with a marigold tassel issue: ideas, projects, and decisions that STILL LIVE IN MY CHILDHOOD HOME. walking across a football field amid a sea are pushing both people and the design I was standing at the marble kitchen of classmates. There I was accepting industry forward. Here you’ll find a island, preparing to drink a cup of coffee. a diploma, being handed a yellow tenacious fiber artist, a human-focused My mom handed me an 8x10 clear plastic carnation and baby’s breath wrapped design studio, and a critically acclaimed sleeve filled with papers. “We’re clearing in cellophane, throwing my hat in the Japanese craftsman who’s little known out the attic. Here’s everything from your air somewhere in the mass of graduates stateside. Our senior editor, Rachel high school graduation,” she said and shown in a long-distance shot. Suddenly Gallaher, takes a deep dive into the world walked away. I had never seen any pictures the setting switched to the street outside of Julie K. Stein, the driving force behind or documents from that day—the event is the stadium. There I was with my parents, the Burke natural history museum in a numb, blissful blur in my memory. I sat with my boyfriend, with friends I haven’t Washington State, which will reopen there staring at the packet for a few min- seen for more than a decade. Most of the following a period of intense renovation. utes, grappling with two thoughts: first, people in those pictures don’t exist any- And Portland-based architecture critic that I am apparently at an age when my more, including myself. We all grew up. Brian Libby unpacks the vision of Lisa parents’ attic can no longer act as a storage Confronted with my 18-year-old Picard, the CEO and president of EQ unit for my past (artifact-filled boxes from self, I couldn’t help thinking about the Office, who’s disrupting the way we my adolescence, college, and life in each formative decisions I’ve made since work. Each profile is one of dedication state and country where I’ve lived crowd then. I do that whenever I feel lost—as and zeal. 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