ArchitectureTalk
175 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month 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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24: My Dinner with Warren Etheredge_Film, Architecture and Storytelling
July 05, 2018 06:30 - 1 hour - 26.7 MBIn this SPECIAL EDITION we talk with Warren Etheredge, critic, screenwriter, teacher and charismatic co-founder with Tom Skerritt of The Film School. Warren is also the author of TheWarrenReport and host of the podcast, The High Bar. Over a meal in the University of Washington Faculty Club, we discuss his career, screenwriting and the importance of storytelling, emotional vulnerability and honesty in film. We explore the art, craft (and crap) of cinema and design and interrogate issues ...
23: Wearable Technology, Critical Thinking and Our Digital Future with Afroditi Psarra
June 21, 2018 02:38 - 48 minutes - 17.6 MBSOURCE: Afroditi Psarra We talk to multidisciplinary artist, Afroditi Psarra (Professor of Digital Arts at the University of Washington) about her work with electronic textiles, "alienesque" aesthetics, soft circuits and our the new relationships that we have to establish between our bodies and responsive technologies. Discussion topics include: collaborative practice, DIY culture, parametic design, bio-feedback, open-source working and the uncanny.
22: DOA - The Death of Architecture with Aniket Bhagwat and Riyaz Tayyibji
June 06, 2018 23:08 - 50 minutes - 21 MBDOA Exhibition Poster We discuss the "Death of Architecture" with designers Aniket Bhagwat and Riyaz Tayyibji. DOA, the title of their exhibition currently touring in India, examines the state of architectural thinking and practice in India today including grappling with ideas about cities, time, preservation and the public. Bhagwat, a landscape architect, and Tayyibji, an architect, are both based in Ahmedabad, India. Through a series of provocations and storytelling, they engage humor ...
21: Global materials and techniques of Islamic Architecture with Christian Hedrick (GAHTC)
May 23, 2018 21:39 - 39 minutes - 16.4 MBMuqarnas Vault, Masjid-i Shah/Imam, Isfahan. Source: Daniel C. Waugh, Courtesy of Archnet.org We talk with Architectural historian Christian Hedrick, currently working at the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT as a researcher, visiting lecturer at the School of Architecture at Northeastern University and GAHTC contributor, about the intersection of Islamic architecture with cultures in India, China, North Africa, and Europe. We explore ideas of global exchange, translation and trans...
20: Transnationalism and Japanese Architecture with Ken Oshima
May 09, 2018 18:01 - 53 minutes - 19.5 MBKen Oshima (left) with Arata Isozaki (right) We discuss the complexities of practicing architecture and architectural history across cultures, nationalities, and aesthetic regimes with Ken T. Oshima, Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington, Chair of the Japan Studies Program, and recent President of the Society for Architectural Historians. Topics include: the Edo period, Antonin Raymond, Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan, the post-War modernists, Japanese global architec...
19: Rethinking a Life in Architecture with Javier Sánchez
April 30, 2018 21:39 - 1 hour - 22.7 MBHotel Condessa, Mexico City SOURCE JSa This week we talk with Javier Sánchez, developer, architect and founder of JSa architectural firm, with offices in Mexico City and in Peru. We interrogate the state of contemporary practice in Mexico, the role of Modernism, and the power of transformation in architecture. We discuss with Javier family legacy, time, and innovation as the son and grandson of architects and forging his own path in the design world. And we examine the role of personal ch...
18: Camels, Horses and Other Technologies of Global Communication with Shundana Yusaf (GAHTC)
April 12, 2018 01:01 - 46 minutes - 20 MBCamel with Gatling gun SOURCE Smithsonian Magazine 1872 Camels, ships, roads, railways, electricity.....This week we talk with Shundana Yusaf, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Utah, and discuss the concept and approach to her fascinating co-authored GAHTC module about architecture and the technologies of transportation and communication. Her research has looked at topics as rich and wide ranging as the BBC and Empire in the age of wireless communication as well as ...
17: Creating Urban Agriculture Systems with Gundula Proksch
March 28, 2018 16:00 - 43 minutes - 19.6 MBBased on her recent book, Creating Urban Agricultural Systems: An Integrated Approach to Design, we discuss with University of Washington's Gundula Proksch the myriad implications of re-thinking our food culture. Conversation topics range from community gardens to hydroponics, edible school yards to Mars colonies, the slow-food movement to bio-engineered buildings.
16. Ephemeral Urbanism with Rahul Mehrotra
March 14, 2018 12:00 - 46 minutes - 30.6 MBView of kumbh mela. SOURCE Felipe Vera We discuss kinetic architecture and ephemeral urbanism with Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Topics include events like the kumbh mela, and its implications about thinking about temporality in contemporary practice; designing for obsolescence; immigration and identity; and India in the 21st century. Rahul is also principal of RMA Architects, Mumbai.
15: On the Peripheries of Contact in Medieval Central Asia with Manu P. Sobti (GAHTC)
February 28, 2018 17:00 - 50 minutes - 40.2 MBMud brick fortification walls from the 10th century at Merv, Turkmenistan SOURCE: Manu Sobti Dr. Manu P. Sobti, Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Director of the Higher Degree Research Program at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, discusses his co-authored GAHTC module, Peripheries of Contact, which explores the architecture and urbanism created by migrant populations who traversed Central Asia and engaged with 'settled' peoples at the edges of their ...
14: Better, Faster, Cheaper: Craig Curtis And the Katerra Revolution
February 15, 2018 09:46 - 55 minutes - 39.1 MBKaterra Project Delivery CREDIT: Katerra Katerra is a new global leader in innovation and efficiency in construction project delivery. Design Director Craig Curtis, FAIA, shares eye-opening insights as a member of the Executive Team. Katerra is challenging conventions to deliver successful, sustainable, and innovative projects on par with Ikea, Apple and Tesla in supply chain and smart sourcing, construction and beautiful design. Through its commitment to Research and Development and e...
13: Life is a River, A Conversation with 2018 Pritzker Prize winner BV Doshi
February 01, 2018 20:57 - 44 minutes - 34.5 MBB.V. Doshi's Amdavad ni Gufa underground art gallery in Ahmedabad, India CREDIT Vaishal Dalal, WikiCommons At age 90, Balkrishna Vithaldas (B.V.) Doshi's journey in architecture has spanned 70 years, starting from Indian independence in 1947, to the vicissitudes of postmodernism and globalization. Doshi's voice is a touchstone is global and Indian modernism. Conversation topics include his reflection on life and creativity, his 'favorite' projects, the legacy of Nehruvian modernization, a...
12: Global Modernism with Tom Avermaete (GAHTC)
January 17, 2018 15:00 - 52 minutes - 24.5 MBTom Avermaete, professor of architecture at Delft University of Technology, discusses his GAHTC module, co-authored with Michelangelo Sabatino, on the historiography of mid-century modernism. Entitled "The Global Turn" the six lectures of their module articulate an alternative history of modernism as a network of collaborations cultivated in the context of the decolonizing world. Discussion topics include (post)colonial modernism, multi-layered collaborations, migration and housing, moderni...
11: Life and Work of Pierre Jeanneret with Maristella Casciato
January 03, 2018 16:33 - 39 minutes - 18.5 MBMaristella Casciato, Senior Curator Architecture at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, discusses the life and legacy of Pierre Jeanneret, the Chief Architect of Chandigarh, India, and cousin, collaborator, confidant to Le Corbusier. Discussion topics include the legacy of his in-famous furniture, Charlotte Perriand, and the special relationships he developed with India and the Indian architects and planners.
10: Messy Urbanism with Jeff Hou and Manish Chalana
December 20, 2017 15:32 - 47 minutes - 22.2 MBJeff Hou and Manish Chalana, Professors of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, discuss the 'mess' that makes the vitality of the contemporary Asian city, and the lessons one might draw form that in thinking about the future of a city like Seattle. Discussion topics include: Event-city, Mekong Railway Market, slum porn, filmic narratives and racial segregation.
9: Art Curation and Architecture with Catharina Manchanda
December 06, 2017 14:00 - 40 minutes - 19.1 MBCatharina Manchanda, the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Seattle Art Museum, discusses the complexities of art curation as a social, cultural, aesthetic and spatial practise, both in the local and global contexts. Topics include: exhibition design, Seattle art culture, design as staging, the impact of the digital, and building facades as art canvas.
8: Architecture and the Islamic World Today with Mariam Kamara and Yasaman Esmaili
November 22, 2017 13:00 - 48 minutes - 22.8 MBArchitects from Niger and Iran, Mariam Kamara and Yasaman Esmaili, discuss their award-winning work, the challenges of practicing globally, and the difficulties and rewards of learning to translate across languages and cultures via architecture. Topics include: feminism and architecture, Islam in the world, international practice, and the non-Western roots of the modernist aesthetic.
7: Fashion and Architecture with Anna Telcs
November 08, 2017 13:00 - 39 minutes - 18.7 MBSeattle based fashion designer and performance artist with a background in industrial design, Anna Telcs discusses our relationship to clothes, and the rituals of dressing, as modalities of expressing our selves, our bodies and our place in the world. Discussion topics include donning church dresses, uniforms, and the male body.
6: Emerson, Thoreau and Frank Lloyd Wright with Ayad Rahmani
October 25, 2017 12:00 - 34 minutes - 16.1 MBAyad Rahmani is a licensed architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at Washington State University who writes on a diverse array of topics ranging from the Islamic city to Frank Lloyd Wright to Dubai today. In this episode we try and connect the dots that link his diverse interests. Discussion topics include: publicity and privacy in the Islamic city, Wright’s Broadacre plan, ruralization and food security, and, migration and the search for roots via architecture.
5: Transference in Architecture, Culture and Society with Dominick LaCapra
October 11, 2017 12:00 - 53 minutes - 24.9 MBCornell University’s Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History, Dominick LaCapra discusses the constitutive role of transference in our relationship to history, historiography, animals and architecture. We discuss transference’s relationship with empathy and connecting with Others, and when it ‘crosses the line’ and becomes pathological. Topics include the architecture of Auschwitz, the skyscraper versus adobe, and the possibility of a non-anthropocentric ecological future.
4: Crossroads of Civilizations: The Medieval Mediterranean with Carla Keyvanian (GAHTC)
September 27, 2017 12:00 - 34 minutes - 16.4 MBCarla Keyvanian, Associate Professor of Architecture at Auburn University, talks about her module for GAHTC that looks at the ‘Medieval’ architecture as a product of the complex cultural crossroads of the Mediterranean, that includes Islamic, African and diverse Christian forces, rather than just a ‘Romanesque’ evolution. Topics include Byzantium, Armenia, Umayyads, and Córdoba. We also discuss the Crusades and their abiding influence on contemporary conflicts.
3: Rethinking Historic Preservation with Jorge Otero‐Pailos
September 13, 2017 12:00 - 42 minutes - 20.1 MBColumbia University’s Jorge Otero‐Pailos is a prolific architect, artist, educator and preservationist. He questions the invisibility of preservation and what an act of restoration is, looking closely at what is lost when for example buildings are cleaned. Topics discussed include preservation as memory, future and how it is, or isn’t, ‘overtaking us’.
2: Architecture Culture of Seattle Today with Cassie Blair, JoAnn Hindmarsh Wilcox and Tim Richey
September 13, 2017 12:00 - 47 minutes - 22.3 MBCassie Blair, JoAnn Hindmarsh Wilcox and Tim Richey are part of the committee putting on the 2017 Seattle AIA awards. We discuss trends in the local architecture and talk about how this fast‐growing city can serve its residents. Topics include: migration, diversity, regionalism, densification, risk‐taking and the pains of a growing city.
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1: The Architecture of First Societies with Mark Jarzombek (GAHTC)
May 03, 2017 15:47 - 28 minutes - 13.4 MBMIT Professor Mark Jarzombek discusses his GAHTC module on the Architecture of First Societies, establishing the importance of thinking architecture beyond established canons based on cities and technology. Instead he argues the origins of architecture in the ‘social package’ and in the representational networks of ‘modeling’.