This conversation will focus on architectural projects, theories, and practices that challenged social experimentation and thinking in the 1970s. Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne will discuss one of his first commissions with Morphosis: a 1975 social housing project in Tijuana that coincided with the Mexicali Experimental Project. Artist and writer Judith Barry will focus on her years as an architecture student at University of California Berkeley, where she attended the “progressive” lectures of Christopher Alexander. Architectural historian Ginger Nolan will contribute her research and critique of Alexander’s early approach to community building prior to the Mexicali experiment.