A young architect's impressions of New York, and decades later is a significant place of work and friendships... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Discovering America, by John Tuomey above.

One night, as I was cooking mushrooms for dinner in my Dublin kitchen, I was surprised to receive a phone call from Michael Graves. Would a teaching position at Princeton be of interest?

Taking this to be a call from a joking friend, I laughed, cursed the phony caller, and hung up.

The telephone rang again...

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