2024-05-05T09:50:38-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150126391/architectural-agency-playing-at-a-new-scale-thoughts-with-taraneh-meshkani Anthony George Morey 2019-03-14T13:04:00-04:00 >2019-03-14T13:04:44-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/76/76c1f6e6641f31036a47c8017b15e9dd.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>In this installment of Cross-Talk #9 &mdash; The Architecture Play, we talk with&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/149953240/screen-print-42-harvard-s-new-geographies-07-geographies-of-information" target="_blank">Taraneh Meshkani</a>&nbsp;about the role of autonomy or maybe its non role in Architecture and how <em>scale</em> just might be the answer.&nbsp;</p> <p>The role of Archinect&rsquo;s series&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/944588/cross-talk" target="_blank">Cross-Talk</a></strong>&nbsp;is to bring forward the positive aspects of the polemic and allow for the resulting conflict to bring to life an otherwise still and comfortable climate of creativity&mdash;if there can be one.&nbsp;<strong>Cross-Talk</strong>&nbsp;attempts&mdash;if to only say that it did&mdash;to allow text the freedom that the image has accepted and embraced.&nbsp;<strong>Cross-Talk</strong>&nbsp;attempts to force the&nbsp;<em>no</em>, to contradict itself, to anger, to please and then anger again, if only to force a stance, to pull out the position of the&nbsp;<em>self</em>, of the discipline and of the hour as a means to begin and maintain conversations moving forward.&nbsp;</p>