Francine Houben of Mecanoo in Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos

Jorge Otero-Pailos, director of Columbia GSAPP's Historic Preservation Program, speaks with Francine Houben of Mecanoo. They focus on her firm's ongoing renovation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington DC, originally designed by Mies van der Rohe. During the design process, Houben says she "felt two men on my shoulders ... In a kind of very subtle way, I balanced Mies and Martin Luther King and if it was conflicting, Martin Luther King won.”