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A COUPLE OF YEARS back, New York–based architects Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski were touring a West Coast client around a recently completed project, a school in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. As they walked the hallways, their guest remarked on the building’s white epoxy floor; wanting to get a better feel for it, he removed his shoes and began padding around barefoot. When some staff members came upon the shoeless visitor—monklike, his face encircled by a vast nimbus of gray hair—standing placidly amid the corridor…