Aleksandr MergoldAleksandr Mergold is a partner at Austin+Mergold, an architecture, landscape, and design practice, a testing ground for his injury into the contemporary interpretation of spolia. This research also continues at Cornell University where Mergold teache architecture. Prior to the practice and the teaching, Mergold worked at Pentagram in New York on a variety of architecture and design projects. A third-generation architect, Aleksandr was born in the ancient city of Tashkent, that contains simultaneous traces of the Great Silk Road, colonial conquests, and a socialist planned economy. Read More Read Less