Let's Talk Architecture
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago -Join the Danish Architecture Center as we chat with some of the world’s leading architects, designers, planners, and engineers about their work and ideas. Let’s Talk Architecture introduces you to the creative and innovative minds behind the future of our buildings and cities. Let’s Talk Architecture introduces you to the creative and innovative minds behind the future of our buildings and cities. Get to know the creative and innovative minds that shapes Danish architecture.
Author and journalist, Michael Booth, is not an architect, but he is curious about cities, and how they are built. In this podcast he ventures out into the city with architects, planners, and urban developers, while he asks them about the agendas, that shapes their projects and our built environment. They talk about everything from the aesthetics of the climate change, modernist masterpieces, extensive retail planning, rethinking of materials, sensuous architecture, transformation of existing buildings, the shaping of new architects, and much much more.
Generous funding is provided by Realdania and the Danish Industry Foundation. Learn more at dac.dk/en/podcast
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DAC’s home in a transparent BLOX: OMA’s Ellen van Loon
March 03, 2020 12:51 - 19 minutes - 44.3 MBFor OMA partner architect Ellen van Loon, a building’s spatial form and the relationship between interior and exterior has always been of great fascination. She joined DAC’s Jen Masengarb to discuss the design process for the BLOX building in Copenhagen – the mixed-building that is also home to DAC – and what happens when she returns to ‘spy’ on the users of spaces she has designed.
Architecture on Mars?: BIG’s Jakob Lange with Tor Nørretranders
March 03, 2020 12:48 - 22 minutes - 51.6 MBBjarke Ingels Group has been working with the Dubai Future Foundation to imagine a 2117 city on Mars. BIG Partner Jakob Lange and popular science author Tor Nørretranders sat down with DAC’s Jen Masengarb. What is the role of architects in creating a sustainable Martian environment? And what could this exploration teach us about Earth? Generous funding is provided by Realdania and the Danish Industry Foundation which also support BLOX Talks, DAC’s evening lecture series with Lange and Nørret...
The business of architecture: BIG’s Sheela Søgaard
January 06, 2020 12:31 - 20 minutes - 47.8 MBSheela Søgaard, Partner and CEO at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) isn’t an architect, but her leadership has been critical to the firm’s rapid global growth. In a candid conversation with DAC’s Jen Masengarb, Søgaard shares her insight on the business of architecture and how the firm works to close gender and pay gaps. Generous funding is provided by Realdania and the Danish Industry Foundation which also support BLOX Talks, DAC’s lecture series which featured Søggard.
Giving Form to the Future: a Bjarke Ingels Interview
December 20, 2019 13:32 - 19 minutes - 43.8 MBGiving form to the future: Bjarke Ingels
December 20, 2019 13:32 - 19 minutes - 43.8 MBDanish architect Bjarke Ingels, the founding partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has been disrupting the architecture world for the past 20 years. As part of BIG’s FORMGIVING exhibition at DAC, Ingels sat down with DAC’s Jen Masengarb in a lively chat on a range of topics – from philosophy to technology to the architect from history he’d most like to meet. Generous funding is provided by Realdania and the Danish Industry Foundation which also support BLOX Talks, DAC’s lecture series which f...
Restless at heart: Dorte Mandrup
December 20, 2019 13:29 - 14 minutes - 33.9 MBBeing restless and pushing boundaries has always been part of Danish architect Dorte Mandrup’s way of life. Her collection of projects on UNESCO World Heritage sites has led to a new focus on the firm’s work. In a conversation with DAC’s Jen Masengarb, Mandrup discusses her design process, career path, new work, and the influential landscapes of her childhood.
Restless at Heart: a Dorte Mandrup interview
December 20, 2019 13:29 - 14 minutes - 33.9 MBThe Architecture City: BLOX in Copenhagen
December 18, 2019 13:52 - 23 minutes - 44.6 MBThe design of radical buildings in historic cities often stirs up debate. Are we afraid of architectural change? Do we eventually come to love these buildings? OMA architect and partner Ellen van Loon chats with DAC’s Director Kent Martinussen and host Frederikke Aagaard about the design of BLOX and the conversation it has sparked among residents and visitors in Copenhagen about design.