Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee speak with Amale Andraos in this first of six conversations recorded live at the conference \u201cMaking Books Now\u201d on September 15, 2017. The conference was co-organized by Columbia GSAPP and the Chicago Architecture Biennial on the occasion of the Biennial\u2019s opening at the Chicago Cultural Center, and was hosted by GSAPP\u2019s Director of Publications, James Graham.\nAmale Andraos, co-founder of WORKac with Dan Wood, and Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, co-founders of JohnstonMarklee, speak with one another about their respective books, We\u2019ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge (Monacelli, 2017) and House is a House is a House is a House is a House (Birkh\xe4user, 2016). Andraos is Dean of Columbia GSAPP, and Johnston and Lee served as curators of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.\n\u201cA book is a slow medium, and architecture is a slow medium. Culture is fast, but architecture is slow. ... It\u2019s important to take advantage of that slowness.\u201d \u2013 Mark Lee\nMore information about the conference: https://www.arch.columbia.edu/events/743-making-books-now-columbia-gsapp-at-the-chicago-architecture-biennial\nWORKac: www.work.ac/duograph (http://www.work.ac/duograph)\nJohnstonMarklee: www.johnstonmarklee.com/?n=work&id=74&info (http://www.johnstonmarklee.com/?n=work&id=74&info)