"I see a deanship as a leadership position with a disciplinary project that engages, inspires, supports, and advocates for the school, university and city...I want to build a school of creative, talented, and intelligent people who discuss provocative ideas, do meaningful work, and collectively advance timely and serious projects to not only show what we as architects and planners can do, but also how we, in the context of deindustrializing Buffalo, can get things done. In other words, by building both relationships and projects."

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