Latest Globalhistory Podcast Episodes
125. Architecture in the Symbolic Realm: Troubling the Remaking of New Delhi's Central Vista with Aneesha Dharwadker
ArchitectureTalk - June 03, 2022 23:14 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week, we talk with Aneesha Dharwadker, assistant professor in architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of the recently published article Dystopia’s Ghost. In this episode, we revisit the remaking of New Delhi’s Central Vista pro...
124. Architecture and the Photographic Eye with Randhir Singh
ArchitectureTalk - May 11, 2022 23:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week, we talk with Randhir Singh about his life as an architectural photographer, which he pursues, not just as an art, but as a way of architectural thinking itself. From the art and craft of the making of a photograph, to the final presentation in MOMA, Randhir Singh walks us through hi...
123. A Fieldguide to Sub-Saharan African Architecture with Adil Dalbai and Livingston Mukasa
ArchitectureTalk - March 24, 2022 19:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHow does the idea of a “Nation” come through in architectural language? Is there such a thing as a Nigerian architecture, for example? Are there national identifications visible in architectural makeup? On the other hand, how does architecture transcend borders? What is the status of Modernism ...
123. A Fieldguide to Sub-Saharan African Architecture with Adil Dalbai and Livingstone Mukasa
ArchitectureTalk - March 24, 2022 19:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHow does the idea of a “Nation” come through in architectural language? Is there such a thing as a Nigerian architecture, for example? Are there national identifications visible in architectural makeup? On the other hand, how does architecture transcend borders? What is the status of Modernism ...
122. Reyner Banham Revisited with Richard Williams
ArchitectureTalk - March 10, 2022 00:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week we sit down with Prof. Richard Williams of the Edinburgh College of Art to discuss his recently published book Reyner Banham Revisited
121. Part 2: The Living Links between Indian Modernism and Indian Tradition with William J.R. Curtis
ArchitectureTalk - February 17, 2022 02:14 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOnce again, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curtis for Part two of this conversation. We pick up right where we left off, rumbling through the dusty roads of India with William on his way to meet Balkrishna Doshi, the living link between the force ...
120. Part 1: Mental Landscapes and the Architectural Archipelagos of Indian Modernism with William J.R. Curtis
ArchitectureTalk - February 03, 2022 00:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curtis and his reading of the narrative of Indian Modernism. Part one of a two part series, Curtis and Prakash focus today’s conversation on the life and work of Aditya Prakash, the nature and production o...
119. Oracular Visions and the Fungal Futures with Mark Jarzombek
ArchitectureTalk - January 14, 2022 20:31 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThe modernist legacy has helped proliferate the current environmental crisis on a global scale. In architecture, what is to be done to address this civilizational problem? Could oracular visions be a way to rethink how we practice and teach architecture? Join us for this week's conversation wit...
118. OCL Rerelease: On the Relevance of the Midcentury Modern Moment in India
ArchitectureTalk - December 10, 2021 19:05 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIn anticipation of the next installment of the One Continuous Line webinar series on Globalization and the Modernist City (being held online on December 13, 2021) this episode is a re-release of the previous panel discussion. This episode features guests Mark Jarzombek, Anthony Vidler, Partha ...
117. Chandigarh:Possibility in Engaging the Unknown in the Incomplete with Remi Papillault
ArchitectureTalk - November 22, 2021 20:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week, we sit down with Remi Papillault to discuss the topic of his new book, and the subject of his ongoing interests: the development of Chandigarh and Le Corbusier’s hand in its shaping.
116. The Politics of Acoustic Space and Sonic Montage with Joseph Clarke
ArchitectureTalk - November 04, 2021 01:42 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week, we sit down with Joseph Clarke to discuss his new book Echo’s Chamber: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space. The discussion looks at the convergence of politics, acoustics, and the metamorphosis of acoustic spatial thinking from Wagner to Le Corbusier and beyond.
115. An American Architect in India with David Stein
ArchitectureTalk - October 22, 2021 20:42 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week, the subject turns back to legacy. We have a conversation with the son of Joseph Allen Stein who was an American-born architect, designing fabulous buildings across India during the Nehruvian period in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. David Stein takes us through his life growing up in Ind...
114. Nightrise and the Nocturnal Landscape with Mohamad Nahleh
ArchitectureTalk - October 07, 2021 03:28 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWhat is an architecture of the Nightrise? How might we spatialize the unseeable, or “freeze” the shadows of a conjuration? This week, we have a fascinating discussion with Mohamad Nahleh, a recent MIT graduate, about his recent personal research and graduate thesis on the night in Jabal ‘Amil i...
113. Architecture as a Site of Thinking with Mark Dorrian
ArchitectureTalk - September 23, 2021 23:58 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHow might we think about architectural education differently in a post-pandemic world? What are the intersections between Covid and Climate Change? How does seeing architecture as a site of thinking impact education today? This week, we sit down with Mark Dorrian to take a deep dive into the m...
112. Connectedness, Eroticism, and the Flâneur with David Turnbull
ArchitectureTalk - September 09, 2021 22:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsJoin us this week for a far-ranging and fascinating conversation with David Turnbull, architect, thinker and educator.
111. Jean Louis Cohen and the Transurbanism of the Modern City
ArchitectureTalk - August 25, 2021 22:47 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsDiscussing his work on the transurban, Jean Louis Cohen takes us on a tour of the history of ideas that have shaped, formed, and deformed the various cities that stitch together the seams of the world. This conversation continues the ongoing conversation centering the impact of Modernism on arc...
110. The Life and Times of Cyrus and Ruth Jhabvala with Firoza Jhabvala
ArchitectureTalk - August 19, 2021 21:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week, we sit down with Firoza Jhabvala, musician and daughter of Cyrus and Ruth Jhabvala. We talk about growing up with two creative parents, the trans-disciplinarity of Cyrus' Jhabvala’s architecture practice, parallels with Vikram’s own father, Aditya Prakash, and the politics of coloni...
109. Textile Capitalism and Architectural Patronage with Dan Williamson
ArchitectureTalk - August 11, 2021 20:38 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week, we continue interrogating the modern nationalist project in India, its legacy and implications for thinking the present with Dan Williamson, professor and scholar of Mid-century Ahmedabad. We learn why and how Amedabad, a city in Western India, came to be home to some of the best an...
108. The Idea of India with Sunil Khilnani
ArchitectureTalk - August 05, 2021 21:38 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHow do ideas travel across the world? How do ideas change? Why do they change? This week, we contemplate these questions in the mid-century context of the emerging Indian nation-state in the 1950s into the contemporary cultural climate we see today. Sunil Khilnani is professor of politics and ...
107. OCL Part 2: Modernism and the Skeptic Turn with Mark Jarzombek, Anthony Vidler, Partha Mitter, and Sunil Khilnani
ArchitectureTalk - July 21, 2021 20:19 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIn part two of our two-part series One Continuous Line, we sit down with Mark Jarzombek, Anthony Vidler, Partha Mitter, and Sunil Khilnani to discuss the relevance of Indian Modernism in terms of its various contemporary postcolonial contexts.
106. OCL Part 1: Indian Modernism and the Anxiety of Western Influence with Mark Jarzombek, Anthony Vidler, Partha Mitter, and Sunil Khilnani
ArchitectureTalk - July 08, 2021 16:43 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsIn part one of our two-part series One Continuous Line, we sit down with Mark Jarzombek, Anthony Vidler, Partha Mitter, and Sunil Khilnani to discuss the relevance of Indian Modernism in terms of its various contemporary postcolonial contexts.
105. Revisiting the Modern and the Global, a reissue and crossover episode with Anthony Vidler and Mark Jarzombek
ArchitectureTalk - June 17, 2021 19:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis week, we revisit two past episodes as a preamble to the forthcoming panel discussion “One Continuous Line: is Indian MidCentury Modernism still relevant today?” In this crossover episode we discuss the project of Utopia and its colonial situatedness, modernity and its critiques, and the w...
104. One Continuous Line with Vikram Prakash
ArchitectureTalk - June 09, 2021 22:33 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis 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 Prak...
103. Navigating the Skins of the Earth with Raoul Bunschoten
ArchitectureTalk - June 03, 2021 18:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHow 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 conversa...
102. Memories and Legacies of Richard Neutra with Raymond Neutra
ArchitectureTalk - May 20, 2021 04:56 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWhat 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
ArchitectureTalk - May 05, 2021 21:48 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsToday 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 influence...
100. Fragments of Utopia in Farangestan with Vahid Vahdat
ArchitectureTalk - April 23, 2021 00:27 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsThis 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 a...
99. Unfolding Moods and the Romance of the Monsoon with Dipti Khera
ArchitectureTalk - April 08, 2021 21:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsHow 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 lett...
98. Colonial Memory, Climate Change, and the role of the Greenhouse in the Colonial Project with Luis Berríos-Negrón
ArchitectureTalk - March 25, 2021 19:26 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWe 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 perpetua...
97. Reissue of AITC: The Medicalization of Space with Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group
ArchitectureTalk - March 04, 2021 02:28 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsWhat 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.
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