Addison GODEL is a Ph.D. student in architecture at Columbia University, where his research concerns the myriad, two-way relationships between modern architecture and its social and political contexts, with topics including the representational paradoxes of telephone exchanges, early-modern European views of Chinese design, and the status of post-Independence Indian work in Modernist historiography. He holds an M.Arch from the Ohio State University s Knowlton School of Architecture, and publishes architectural commentary online.