Michael Kothke is a national award-winning architect and educator. His approach to teaching, service, and research is rooted in the discipline of architecture itself, with a particular emphasis on "synthesis" and the processes of coordination and collaboration that the realization of creative works require. Michael is motivated by Louis Kahn’s notion that the conceptual, the delightful, the "un-measurable" in architecture can only be revealed and achieved through "measurable" means and through a mastery of the language of the discipline. Michael believes that architecture itself can be a powerful teacher.