ArchitectureTalk
172 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsDesigned around an engaging conversation, Architecture Talk explores issues in contemporary architecture and architectural thinking. It is hosted by Vikram Prakash, Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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104. One Continuous Line with Vikram Prakash
June 09, 2021 22:33 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MBThis week, we turn the mic back on Vikram Prakash to discuss his newly published book One Continuous Line: Art, Architecture and Urbanism of Aditya Prakash. The conversation picks up the thread of the book, mapping out and analyzing the life and multi modal work of Vikram’s father, Aditya Prakash, in Mid Century Modern India.
103. Navigating the Skins of the Earth with Raoul Bunschoten
June 03, 2021 18:33 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBHow might we navigate and negotiate the skins of the Earth in the face of climate change? What can Byzantine architecture and Plato’s Khôra teach us about urban living in the 21st Century? What is the role of the architect in current cultural production? This week, we have a fascinating conversation with Raoul Bunschoten, Professor of Sustainable Urban Planning and Urban Design at the TU Berlin, and founder of Chora an architectural design and urban planning group.
102. Memories and Legacies of Richard Neutra with Raymond Neutra
May 20, 2021 04:56 - 50 minutes - 37.5 MBWhat was it like to grow up in the Neutra household? What memories of Richard Neutra’s early and practicing life live on in his children? This episode explores the idea of legacy and memory with Raymond Neutra, youngest child of famous Mid-Century Modern Architect Richard Neutra.
101. On Anant Raje and Creative Legacy with Shubhra Raje
May 05, 2021 21:48 - 52 minutes - 39.4 MBToday we talk to Shubhra Raje, Academic and Architect…and also the daughter of Anant Raje, faculty member of CEPT in Ahmedabad and an architect who worked closely with Louis Kahn on the IIM project. Today, we focus the conversation on Shubhra’s relationship with her father, how he has influenced her life and how this relationship has been formative in her own architectural and creative identity. ...
100. Fragments of Utopia in Farangestan with Vahid Vahdat
April 23, 2021 00:27 - 48 minutes - 38.1 MBThis week's episode invites you to look back to the 19th century with four Persian travelers making their way through a modernized Europe. In their travel diaries, we see Europe from an Occidentalist gaze, which charges these Western spaces with eroticism, magic, and wonder. What can we learn about Persian utopia from these "farangi," or foreign, narratives? Join us, for this discussion with Vahid Vahdat, assistant professor of architecture and interior design at The School of Design and Co...
99. Unfolding Moods and the Romance of the Monsoon with Dipti Khera
April 08, 2021 21:41 - 1 hour - 48 MBHow do moods and cultural objects work in the construction of history, politics, place? In this episode, Dipti Khera joins us to discuss her newly published book The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century, which deconstructs the affects of the painted letters traditions of Northwest India on the construction of place.
98. Colonial Memory, Climate Change, and the role of the Greenhouse in the Colonial Project with Luis Berríos-Negrón
March 25, 2021 19:26 - 51 minutes - 37.7 MBWe are experiencing rapidly rising global temperatures making it increasingly difficult for Earth to remain habitable. Yet, the dominant power structure of the free-market economy is not really reacting. Enter the greenhouse as the future of life in a changed climate…or is it simply a perpetuation of what got us here in the first place? Listen as Luis Berríos-Negrón traces the lineage of the greenhouse through history and critiques the deployment of the greenhouse typology as a “solution” ...
97. Reissue of AITC: The Medicalization of Space with Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group
March 04, 2021 02:28 - 50 minutes - 52.1 MBWhat can architecture do in the time of a pandemic? What is an architecture of medical necessity? This week, we talk with Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group to discuss architecture in the time of COVID-19.
96. Re-Issue On Wetness, Ecology, and Rethinking Habitation with Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
February 17, 2021 21:33 - 57 minutes - 43.8 MBThis week we look back at our miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with architects and educators Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha. In this re-issue, the discussion touches on Mathur and Da Cunha’s concept of wetness - a re-writing of what it means to live in relationship to water - and what it means for architecture and ecological thinking in the time of Coronavirus.
95. Part II of Demolition of Kahn's IIM Dormitories with Sarosh Anklesaria, Shubhra Raje, and Riyaz Tayyibji
February 05, 2021 20:12 - 1 hour - 53 MBThis week, we continue our conversation with Sarosh Anklesaria, Shubhra Raje, and Riyaz Tayyibji about the recent developments at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) where controversial deliberations have led to the decision to demolish a large swath of dormitories on its campus designed by Louis Kahn, architect. While this decision has been temporarily halted, it has generated much conversation surrounding the value of experience, collective and micro histories, the rol...
94. Demolition of Kahn's IIM Dormitories with Sarosh Anklesaria, Shubhra Raje, and Riyaz Tayyibji
January 21, 2021 04:00 - 59 minutes - 43.9 MBThe basic issue is: what is the value of collective/cultural memory? What happens when we privilege certain memories over others? This week, Sarosh Anklesaria, Shubhra Raje, Riyaz Tayyibji and Vikram Prakash converse about recent developments at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) where controversial deliberations have led to the decision to demolish a large swath of dormitories on its campus designed by Louis Kahn, architect.
93. Heritage, Architectural Autonomy, and The Aesthetics of Absorption with Prem Chandavarkar
January 09, 2021 01:34 - 45 minutes - 32 MBThe basic issue is: what do we recognize as heritage? What is worth remembering? And who decides? This week, Prem Chandavarkar and Vikram Prakash converse about recent developments at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) where controversial deliberations have led to the decision to demolish a large swath of dormitories on its campus designed by Louis Kahn.
93. Demolition of Kahn's IIM Dormitories with Prem Chandavarkar
January 09, 2021 01:34 - 45 minutes - 32 MBThe basic issue is: what do we recognize as heritage? What is worth remembering? And who decides? This week, Prem Chandavarkar and Vikram Prakash converse about recent developments at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM) where controversial deliberations have led to the decision to demolish a large swath of dormitories on its campus designed by Louis Kahn.
92. A look back at 2020 with the Office of (Un)Certainty Research
December 24, 2020 02:49 - 1 hour - 51.8 MBThis week, Architecture Talk sits down with the Office of (Un)Certainty Research to find out who they are, where they are, and where they are going. Find out what it's all about!
91. Posthuman Humanism, Spirituality, and the Impressions of Childhood with Michael Benedikt
December 10, 2020 20:32 - 53 minutes - 32.4 MBThis week, we sit down with Michael Benedikt, the 2004 ACSA Distinguished Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture. In this fascinating and meandering conversation, Vikram and Michael discuss the impressions of childhood on our adult life, inter-subjectivities and the force-relations of things, spirituality in architecture, and posthuman humanism.
90. Recollecting the past and present with Franz Ziegler
November 26, 2020 18:21 - 53 minutes - 40.9 MBThis week, we sit down with Architect, Urban Planner, and long-time friend Franz Ziegler to exchange thoughts on Holland and global architecture, drawing with the hand, and to reminisce on mutual experiences in India.
89. Storytelling with the Shapes of Time with Amir Sheikh
November 12, 2020 21:04 - 46 minutes - 34.1 MBWhat's in a placename? What are the geneologies and lineages of the land we live on? As mapmaker and transdisciplinary scholar, Amir Sheikh reveals that there are many intersecting and sedimented narratives of place and placenames, in part, tell these stories. Join us as we talk with him about his work with the Waterlines project and storytelling with the shapes of time.
88. The Dialectics of the Ramayana and the City of Changing Shape with Arshia Sattar
October 30, 2020 00:18 - 59 minutes - 46.1 MBHow might literature help inform the way we talk, think, and design the city? How differently would we build it? This week, scholar and translator Arshia Sattar brings her immense knowledge of the Hindu Epic The Ramayana to talk about ethics, morality, sensuality, and space and how we might imagine a city of changing shape.
87. Architectural Pedagogy Then and Now with Neelkanth Chhaya
October 14, 2020 21:11 - 48 minutes - 39 MBThis week, we gain new perspectives on architectural pedagogy today in the time of Zoom University and Coronavirus as we speak with long-time educator and architectural practitioner Neelkanth Chhaya. Fresh off the success of a fully online studio titled Poche, Neelkanth reflects on studio culture and pedagogy today and in the past.
86. Peter Mohlmam, The Window Witch
October 02, 2020 16:48 - 48 minutes - 42.6 MBFrom the catwalk to the department store, there are many modalities of showcasing high fashion. In the realm of window displays, how do you draw people in? For Peter Mohlmam, it's all about seduction. This week, we dive into the wickedly beguiling world of the Window Witch - where fashion design and architecture meet and design is life.
Peter Mohlmam, The Window Witch
October 02, 2020 16:48 - 48 minutes - 42.6 MBFrom the catwalk to the department store, there are many modalities of showcasing high fashion. In the realm of window displays, how do you draw people in? For Peter Mohlmam, it's all about seduction. This week, we dive into the wickedly beguiling world of the Window Witch - where fashion design and architecture meet and design is life.
85. In Flux with Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
September 17, 2020 20:54 - 1 hour - 48.8 MB“1970s Israel was a period of taking things that were constructed and making them into things that are taken for granted, that become 2nd nature, that you don’t question.” This week, we are joined by Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, head of the Arenson Built Heritage Research Center in Haifa, Israel. This conversation looks at the question and problem of modernism and its relation to the formation of the nation-state, particularly as it relates to Israel and India.
84. Teaching Architecture under the Regime of Zoom with Nandan Balsavar
September 02, 2020 23:41 - 51 minutes - 43.9 MBWhat happens when your home becomes your laboratory for architectural learning and speculation? According to Nandan Balsavar, Zoom enables his students to incorporate the oral histories from generations of family members into regular lessons. This week, we’ll be discussing architectural pedagogy, culturally inherited forms of knowledge, and teaching under the regime of Zoom with educator and architect Nandan Balsavar!
83. AITC: In conversation with Anjali Mangalgiri
August 20, 2020 14:29 - 35 minutes - 31.1 MBThis week we end our miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Grounded founder and Principal Architect Anjali Mangalgiri. The discussion touches on motherhood, architectural thinking, sustainability, and Anjali’s memories that led her to pursue architecture.
82. AITC: Resiliency, Adaptibility, and Architecture in a Recessive Economy wity Rachel Minnery and Patrick MacLeamy
August 05, 2020 23:36 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with two distinct discussions. The first conversation, with Rachel Minnery, AIA, asks what does it mean to plan in the face of unknowable risk? The second, with Patrick MacLeamy, former CEO of HOK, discusses the history and culture of HOK, the future of design firms in a changing world, and firm strategies during a recessive economy.
81. AITC: The Archeology of Confinement and Culture of Hygiene with Lydia Kallipoliti
July 29, 2020 22:15 - 41 minutes - 34.5 MBThis week, we sit down with Lydia Kallipoliti, an award-winning architect, engineer, scholar and curator and an Assistant Professor at the Cooper Union in New York. The conversation traverses many scales - from the individual to the environment and world - looking closely at the culture of hygiene and the architecture of confinement and how these technologies are connected to the politics of the body in the time of Coronavirus.
80. AITC: Limitlessness and Posthuman Questioning with Nikolaus Hirsch
July 22, 2020 22:56 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBThe Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus miniseries continues this week with Frankfurt-based educator, theorist, and architect Nikolaus Hirsch. Host Vikram Prakash and Nikolaus Hirsch speculate on the architecture school of the future, posthumanism as a framework for transdisciplinary practices, and question what architecture is and could be.
79. AITC: Narrative, Fiction, OOO, and the Making of the Architectural Meme as criticism with Benedikt Hartl and Ryan Scavnicky
July 16, 2020 01:28 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with two distinct, yet parallel discussions. The first conversation, with Benedikt Hartl of Opposite Office, probes the possibilities in future-driven narrative architecture to achieve sustainability and resiliency in the face of climate change, pandemics, and the unknown. The second, with Ryan Scavnicky of Extra Office, discusses the internet meme as a tool for critiquing and reframing the culture around ...
78. AITC: On Wetness, Ecology, and Rethinking Habitation with Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha
July 09, 2020 19:31 - 57 minutes - 46.9 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with architects and educators Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha. Here, the discussion touches on Mathur and Da Cunha’s concept of wetness - a re-writing of what it means to live in relationship to water - and what it means for architecture and ecological thinking in the time of Coronavirus.
77. AITC: Nature, The Posthuman, and the Microbiome with Ilaria Mazzoleni
July 02, 2020 00:18 - 52 minutes - 42.6 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with architect, biomimicist and educator Ilaria Mazzoleni. In this chat we see that the “eco-laboratory” is an apt metaphor to describe the body, architecture, and manifestations of “living” at various scales.
76. AITC: The Choreography of the Urban with AbdouMaliq Simone
June 24, 2020 21:16 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with urban theorist AbdouMaliq Simone where we discuss his work on inter-relational subjectivities in the creation of new urban conditions, his personal response and experience with the Corona virus, and his response to the protests around Black Lives Matter.
75. AITC: The Poetics of Transgression with Nisha Mathew and Soumitro Ghosh
June 22, 2020 16:18 - 57 minutes - 51.2 MBHow do we re-think what is essential? How does the spiritual influence design thinking? How can we understand the poetics of transgression in the design world? This week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with architects and Nisha Mathew and Soumitro Ghosh.
75. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Nisha Mathew and Soumitro Ghosh
June 22, 2020 16:18 - 57 minutes - 51.2 MBHow do we re-think what is essential? How does the spiritual influence design thinking? How can we understand the poetics of transgression in the design world? This week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with architects and Nisha Mathew and Soumitro Ghosh.
75. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Nisha Mathew and Soumitra Ghosh
June 18, 2020 19:48 - 57 minutes - 51.2 MBHow do we re-think what is essential? How does the spiritual influence design thinking? How can we understand the poetics of transgression in the design world? This week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with architects and Nisha Mathew and Soumitra Ghosh.
74. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Manit Rastogi
June 11, 2020 05:29 - 1 hour - 52 MBThis week we continue with the mini series Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with a transnational discussion on COVID19 response in India with architect Manit Rastogi. Here, we examine the social, political, and architectural implications of a pandemic on an individual to a city level.
74. AITC: Indian Urbanism and the Surveillance Society with Manit Rastogi
June 11, 2020 05:29 - 1 hour - 52 MBThis week we continue with the mini series Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with a transnational discussion on COVID19 response in India with architect Manit Rastogi. Here, we examine the social, political, and architectural implications of a pandemic on an individual to a city level.
73. AITC: The Built Form and Governmental Form with Prem Chandavarkar
June 03, 2020 23:21 - 58 minutes - 45.4 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with architect and theorist Prem Chandavarkar. In this episode, we dissect how the Corona virus highlights marginalized communities, how it changes the ways in which we think about governance, and we ask what are the mechanisms by which we construct the notion of the city?
73. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Prem Chandavarkar
June 03, 2020 23:21 - 58 minutes - 45.4 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with architect and theorist Prem Chandavarkar. In this episode, we dissect how the Corona virus highlights marginalized communities, how it changes the ways in which we think about governance, and we ask what are the mechanisms by which we construct the notion of the city?
72. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Wigley
May 27, 2020 22:11 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with guest Mark Wigley, Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP. In this episode, we dissect how the Corona virus reinforces social inequities, how it changes the ways in which we communicate, what it means to live in a city during a pandemic, and what the role of the architect is in these uncertain conditions.
72. AITC: Inequities and Political Urgencies with Mark Wigley
May 27, 2020 22:11 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with guest Mark Wigley, Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP. In this episode, we dissect how the Corona virus reinforces social inequities, how it changes the ways in which we communicate, what it means to live in a city during a pandemic, and what the role of the architect is in these uncertain conditions.
71. AITC: Politics and Pandemics with Nasser Rabbat
May 20, 2020 22:33 - 55 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with guest Dr. Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan professor of Islamic Architecture at MIT. In this episode, we look beyond the individual and beyond North America to turn our heads towards the Middle East and the aggravated complexities that have arisen in these challenging times.
71. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Dr. Nasser Rabbat
May 20, 2020 22:33 - 55 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with guest Dr. Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan professor of Islamic Architecture at MIT. In this episode, we look beyond the individual and beyond North America to turn our heads towards the Middle East and the aggravated complexities that have arisen in these challenging times.
70. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Tanya Wells of Seven Eyes
May 13, 2020 19:45 - 53 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week, in our ongoing series Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus, we sit down with Tanya Wells of the musical act Seven Eyes to discuss the intersections of music and architecture. We ask about her catalogue of experiences during this global pandemic, the cross-culturality of their music, and her transnational upbringing that informs her craft now.
70. AITC: The Intersections of Music and Urbanism with Tanya Wells of Seven Eyes
May 13, 2020 19:45 - 53 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week, in our ongoing series Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus, we sit down with Tanya Wells of the musical act Seven Eyes to discuss the intersections of music and architecture. We ask about her catalogue of experiences during this global pandemic, the cross-culturality of their music, and her transnational upbringing that informs her craft now.
69. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group
May 06, 2020 19:42 - 51 minutes - 53.3 MBWhat can architecture do in the time of a pandemic? What is an architecture of medical necessity? This week, we talk with Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group to discuss architecture in the time of COVID-19.
69. AITC: The Medicalization of Space with Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group
May 06, 2020 19:42 - 51 minutes - 53.3 MBWhat can architecture do in the time of a pandemic? What is an architecture of medical necessity? This week, we talk with Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group to discuss architecture in the time of COVID-19.
68. AITC: Socio-ecological Design with TerreformOne
April 29, 2020 22:19 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBHow do we design against extinction in the time of Corona virus? This week, we talk with Dr. Mitchell Joachim and Nicholas Gervasi of TerreformOne about working within the Earth’s metabolism and with actual living organisms to reconfigure what design means in changing times.
68. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with TerreformOne
April 29, 2020 22:19 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBHow do we design against extinction in the time of Corona virus? This week, we talk with Dr. Mitchell Joachim and Nicholas Gervasi of TerreformOne about working within the Earth’s metabolism and with actual living organisms to reconfigure what design means in changing times.
67. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Perry Kulper
April 22, 2020 19:02 - 48 minutes - 46.4 MBImage: Central California History Museum: Proto-Formal Section by Perry Kulper 2006 What is architecture and what is its frontier of thinking in the time of Corona virus? This week, we talk with architect and architectural thinker Perry Kulper about his work methods, inspirations, drawing techniques, and thoughts on the current pandemic.
Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Perry Kulper
April 22, 2020 19:02 - 48 minutes - 46.4 MBImage: Central California History Museum: Proto_Formal Section by Perry Kulper 2006 What is architecture and what is its frontier of thinking in the time of Corona virus? This week, we talk with architect and architectural thinker Perry Kulper about his work methods, inspirations, drawing techniques, and thoughts on the current pandemic.