Karen Adhikari was working in Bhutan as an architect on restoration projects before coming to PennDesign. She now works as a Principal and Studio Director at Fluidity Design Consultants, a Los Angeles-based firm.
What do you miss most about your time at PennDesign?
An academic environment offering access to world-class minds.
What was your longest day on campus?
There were multiple all-nighters, some contiguous ones!
What’s been your favorite professional project so far?
Longwood Gardens, which is close to completing the renovation of its Main Fountain Garden, and where, coincidentally, I happened to spend my first Christmas in the United States.
If you could go backward or forward in time, what era would you choose and why?
Not too far back — the 1990’s, for that era's breakthroughs in design-thinking, in technology and innovation, and in next-generation invention.
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