How Todd Palmer Sees Design as a Tool to Uncover Truths and Rectify Injustices

Todd Palmer is a designer who seems, above all else, driven by story. For him, buildings are not just reflections of taste and feats of engineering. Instead, they are envelopes that house the stories of humans and our history. He has explored these connections extensively throughout his career. Beginning as a planner and researcher at Ralph Appelbaum Associates, and continuing there as a consultant who worked on exhibitions for institutions such as the Smithsonian's National Museum of...