Author Talk: Alex Krieger on "Greenhorn"

In Chicago, he finds his fourth first-grade classroom to learn a fourth language in four years. From displaced childhood the journeying continues as teacher, architect, planner of cities. With a poet's sensitivity and a craftsman's precision, Krieger reflects on that greenhorn's instinct to embrace the values of an adopted nation while remaining eyewitness to paradoxes. Alex Krieger is Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he taught since 1977. An architect, planner and author, he has directed design and planning projects in American and international cities, including the reconstruction of the Bund in Shanghai. Former chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, he remains an advisor to public and educational institutions, including two terms on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. He is a founding board member of the Leventhal Map & Education Center and the co-author of Mapping Boston.