One of the first courses he took at MassArt was in early American furniture — an introduction to furniture design and also to historians, museum curators, and craftsmen. It directly helped him in his role at HACE. “HACE is extremely multidisciplinary, exactly like MassArt,” he says. “Conservators, architects, landscape architects, historians — we all work together. I learned the value of that at MassArt, how to not only appreciate the differences around me but also find similarities. All those people were in the same space and had done different things, and we came together and learned from one another.”