A conversation between Alan Colqhoun and Robert Maxwell, hosted by Mark Cousins. Robert Maxwell began practising as an architect in 1950 and joined the staff of the AA in 1958. Between 1962 and 1982 he taught at the Bartlett, before being appointed Dean of Architecture at Princeton University where he is Emeritus Professor of Architecture. He is the author of several books including New British Architecture; The Venturi Effect; the essay collection Sweet Disorder and the Carefully Careless; and The Two-Way Stretch: Modernism, Tradition and Innovation. Alan Colquhoun graduated from the AA in 1949. He founded the architectural practice Colquhoun Miller with John Miller in 1961, a collaboration that lasted for the next three decades. Currently Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Princeton University, Colquhoun has taught at the AA, Cornell University and University College Dublin, among many other schools of architecture. He is the author of several books and collections of essays, including Modern Architecture; Essays in Architectural Criticism; Modernity and the Clasical Tradition.