Seattle architect Robert Hull remembers Afghanistan in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a poor but peaceful country, with people who were kind and tolerant of foreigners—a far cry from the war-torn nation of today.
Hull, then fresh out of Washington State University with a bachelor’s degree in architecture, served as a Peace Corps volunteer with five other architects in Herat, about 500 miles west of Kabul. They designed sustainable schools based on traditional Afghan structures, with arches, domes, and vaults. Hull returned to the United States in 1972 and eventually founded the Miller Hull Partnership with another former Peace Corps volunteer, David Miller. Afghanistan became a distant memory as Mill Hull grew into one of the Pacific Northwest’s top design firms.
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