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Paul Gates

Paul Gates is a founding partner of Gates Merkulova Architects LLP. He has taught at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York and has served as a critic on architectural juries at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and the Rhode Island School of Design. His writings and lectures include "Deus Ex Machina: Architecture and the Electronic Media” (A+U) and “Skyscraper Design and Urban Growth."

Forever Trapped Between Jacobs and Moses

Who would vote to replace their neighborhood playground with a sewage treatment plant? But what about finding a “third way” between the extremes of destruction and fossilization, of megalomania and retrenchment.

Zhenya Merkulova and Paul Gates • Oct 27, 2010