ORAL HISTORY OF JOHN LUND KRIKEN Interviewed by Suzanne ...

OUTLINE OF TOPICS
Childhood and family 1
Early interest in architecture 5
Architecture education at University of California Berkeley 9
Summers as a seaman 26
Military service in the army 28
San Antonio and HemisFair, 1968 30
Early concerns for appropriate design for climate and culture 35
Interest in large-scale urban design projects 38
Graduate school at Harvard Graduate School of Design 38
Early "New Town" planning projects and land use policy 43
California Tomorrow Plan 46
Influences on career choice 51
San Antonio and HemisFair, 1968 54
Transbay Transit Center for SOM 57
Attracted to the potential impact of "urban design" projects 63
Teaching position at Washington University 67
Begins work at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in San Francisco 71
Nat Owings and national planning projects 73
California Tomorrow Plan 77
Early colleagues and projects at SOM San Francisco 82
SOM projects in Iran 90
Kriken's book Building Cities for the 21st Century 92
SOM's "group practice" culture 95
Senior management at SOM San Francisco office 97
Financial crisis in the firm, late 1980s 99
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