Archinect Sessions

Hardware to Wetware

06 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Architect Sean Lally of Weathers runs the podcast Night White Skies: "A podcast about architecture's future, as both Earth's environment and our huma...

No Sage on Stage

29 Sep 2016

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Beginning today through October 1, Columbus, Indiana will celebrate its architectural history and identity with its very first Exhibit Columbus—an ...

Grounded Research

22 Sep 2016

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Alvin Huang, founder and principal of Synthesis Design + Architecture in Los Angeles, joins us to talk about growing his practice into the award-winni...

GSAPP United

15 Sep 2016

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In a landmark decision last month, Columbia University graduate students won the right to unionize in a case filed against the National Labor Relati...

Mind the Gap

08 Sep 2016

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We're joined this week by Devin Gharakhanian, co-founder and co-creative director of the online platform SuperArchitects, to discuss his work in arch...

Better than SimCity

01 Sep 2016

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Closing out August's special theme of Games, we're joined this week by Quilian Riano to talk through all the ways games can help architects reimagine ...

Calming Down and Speeding Up in Louisville with Steven Ward

25 Aug 2016

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This week's show is dedicated to Louisville, and we're delighted to share the mic with longtime Archinect favorite Steven Ward. Steven is an architect...

Twilight Zoning

18 Aug 2016

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The term "zoning" recently celebrated its 100-year anniversary in the U.S.'s city planning parlance, and many of our News postings recently have had ...

Raw Rendering Ranters

11 Aug 2016

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Peter Zumthor released new renderings for his LACMA redesign last week, and boy are people not impressed! We talk about the "undercooked" look of Zum...

Summer Daze

04 Aug 2016

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The last few weeks have been a bit of a downer—we had a big ol' roundtable on how Brexit is changing architecture practice and education, the Democ...

Brexit means Brexit

28 Jul 2016

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We're now about a month past the UK's historic 'Brexit' vote to leave the European Union, and, well, lots has happened. David Cameron stepped down as ...

Salvaged Love

21 Jul 2016

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When Indianapolis began demolishing its RCA Dome in 2008, Michael Bricker saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To save the stadium's white, Teflon-co...

Make it Rain

14 Jul 2016

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This week on the podcast, Julia Ingalls joins us to discuss the byzantine considerations behind how architects charge for work, and shares some helpfu...

Private Session

07 Jul 2016

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Wrapping up our special editorial theme for June 2016, Privacy, Archinect writers Julia Ingalls and Nicholas Korody join us on the podcast this week...

A Bit of Nervousness

30 Jun 2016

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Last Thursday, Great Britain voted to leave the European Union, with a margin of 52% to 48%. The result was a huge surprise—especially for those in ...

Queer Space, After Pulse

23 Jun 2016

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In light of the recent killing of 49 people at Pulse, a gay night club in Orlando known to many as a center for Queer and Latinx culture, our focus f...

Stepping Back

16 Jun 2016

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This week, we're taking a moment to catch-up with what's happened on Archinect lately, and share some endorsements—we discuss our latest interview w...

Twists and Turns

09 Jun 2016

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This year's winning Serpentine Pavilion, designed by BIG, came with an architectural posse—for the first time in the Serpentine Pavilion's history,...

Reporting from the Front of 'Reporting from the Front'

02 Jun 2016

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Andrea Dietz spent four days in Venice reporting on the Biennale's opening for us, and brought back her reflections on the hallowed event—in all its...

Valorizing the Normal

26 May 2016

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Donna, Ken and Fred all converged in the meatspace that was the AIA National Convention last week in Philadelphia – to explore the massive Expo flo...

Due Protest

12 May 2016

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Since North Carolina passed the controversial bill known as HB-2 at the end of March—requiring transgender people to use bathrooms that coincide wit...

Brute Force

05 May 2016

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This week on the podcast, Donna, Ken and Amelia discuss the uncertain future of downtown Atlanta's brutalist Public Library (the last building Marcel ...

Banal Sex Mansion

28 Apr 2016

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This week we're joined by special guest co-host Aaron Betsky, author of Queer Space: Architecture and Same-Sex Desire and Building Sex: Men, Women, A...

ZHA after Zaha

21 Apr 2016

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The sudden death of Dame Zaha Hadid could not also mean the end of Zaha Hadid Architects. With major projects still ongoing all over the world, the fi...

There is No There There

14 Apr 2016

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We're joined by original 'Nector and senior editor Orhan Ayyüce to discuss Zaha Hadid's legacy and his recent piece on LA's industrial urbanism, par...

Race for the Prize

07 Apr 2016

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Last week we witnessed the loss of Dame Zaha Hadid, one of architecture's most formidable and prolific talents. We'll be devoting a later podcast epis...

Last week's architecture news. When it wasn't so depressing.

31 Mar 2016

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Collecting the most important news of the past week – that is, from the recording date's perspective of March 30th, the day before Zaha Hadid's sudd...

How much a dollar costs

24 Mar 2016

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This past week on Archinect, we heard Thom Mayne's story of "jazz, sex, and the alienation of singular genius" in Julia Ingalls' interview with the Mo...

Hustle & Bustle

17 Mar 2016

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While Amelia is away this week, Alexander Walter fills in and joins Ken, Donna and me for a conversation about competitions, in a celebration of the r...

Ceci n'est pas un session

10 Mar 2016

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Spring is just around the corner, and in the interest of new beginnings and rebirth, Archinect Sessions is taking this week off to get some much neede...

Guns in the Studio

03 Mar 2016

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A new Texas state law going into effect on August 1 will allow concealed handguns to be brought into public university campus buildings. This isn't si...

Dispatch from Flint

25 Feb 2016

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The tragedy of Flint, Michigan's water crisis seems to worsen with every newly uncovered detail. As a manmade public health crisis provoked by willful...

The Trumpeteers

18 Feb 2016

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We swear, no BIG or Trump on this episode. We discuss the donation of Lautner's breathtaking Sheats-Goldstein house, complete with jungle, nightclub a...

What's the Big Deal‽

11 Feb 2016

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Long-time Archinector and reliably sane commentator Will Galloway joins us from his base in Tokyo to discuss the weekly news, including his interview...

Virtually Inevitable

04 Feb 2016

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Virtual Reality is very much here, in all its messy, beautiful, uncanny glory. The gee-whiz factor notwithstanding, the technology holds a bevy of arc...

Bonus Session: "Now, There: Scenes from the Post-Geographic City"

03 Feb 2016

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Back in December of last year, the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture launched in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, featuring an exhibition curated by Lo...

How the Sausage Is Made

28 Jan 2016

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For our 50th (!!!) episode, we discuss the biggest news items from the last week – everything from the latest BIG and DS+R shake-ups to a surprising...

The Haves and the Have Nots

21 Jan 2016

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As last week's episode was taken up by Pritzker-hooplah, this episode takes a look back at the major news items of the last week(ish) and gets you cau...

Making A Pritzker Laureate

14 Jan 2016

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When news broke yesterday that Alejandro Aravena was the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, reactions were generally positive, but a b...

Never the Same River Twice

08 Jan 2016

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Architect, artist, and experimental preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos has created scents for Philip Johnson's Glass House, removed centuries of dust ...

Next Up Mini-Session #16: TOMA

18 Dec 2015

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For our final Mini-Session from the Next Up series, Nicholas Korody interviews TOMA, a Santiago-based collective. TOMA build politically-charged ...

Nostra-pod-mus

17 Dec 2015

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'Tis the time of year for reflections and speculations – and 2015 was a big one for Archinect Sessions. We launched our first ever live podcasting s...

Next Up Mini-Session #15: WAI Architecture Think Tank

12 Dec 2015

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Over Skype from their homebase in Beijing, WAI Architecture Think Tank partners Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski spoke with Paul Petrunia, on ou...

Golden Years

10 Dec 2015

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On the happy and historic occasion of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi being jointly awarded the 2016 AIA Gold Medal, we speak with Brown about w...

Next Up Mini-Session #14: Andreas Angelidakis

04 Dec 2015

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Nicholas Korody interviews architect Andreas Angelidakis for our next Mini-Session, originally part of our Next Up event at the Chicago Architectu...

Stepping Out

03 Dec 2015

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At least once in their professional life, every architect is likely to ask themselves, "Should I start my own practice?" From there, there are countle...

Next Up Mini-Session #13: Bryony Roberts

02 Dec 2015

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Architect and experimental preservationist Bryony Roberts joins us for our next Mini-Session, a continuation of our Next Up event staged at the Chi...

Next Up Mini-Session #12: Paul Andersen & Paul Preissner

25 Nov 2015

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For our final live Mini-Session, recorded during our Next Up event at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, we present a festival of Pauls. Archinect fou...

Next Up MIni-Session #11: John Lin of Rural Urban Framework

22 Nov 2015

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Our latest installment of Mini-Sessions, recorded live at the Chicago Architecture Biennial's opening weekend as part of our Next Up event series,...

Next Up MIni-Session #10: Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Mecky Reuss of Pedro y Juana

21 Nov 2015

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The Chicago Architecture Biennial is nearing the middle of its run, and we've got more live Mini-Sessions up our sleeve, recorded as part of our Ne...

Bonus Session: Reflections on "Shelter" in Los Angeles

20 Nov 2015

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The Architecture + Design Museum hosted two panels to close out its "Shelter" exhibition, focusing on local architects visions for future residential ...

In LiDAR We Trust

19 Nov 2015

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Long-time Archinector and BLDGBLOG-runner Geoff Manaugh joins us on the podcast this week to discuss his piece on "The Dream Life of Driverless Cars" ...

Next Up Mini-Session: François Roche & Camille Lacadée of New-Territories / M4

18 Nov 2015

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In celebration of Archinect Sessions' second season, we're posting the "Next Up" live-interviews we did at the Chicago Architecture Biennial as ...

Toilet Talk

12 Nov 2015

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Special guest Susan Surface, former Archinect editor now at Design in Public, joins us on Archinect Sessions to talk about recent developments in th...

Next Up Mini-Session: Thomas Kelley and Carrie Norman of Norman Kelley

11 Nov 2015

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Continuing our "Next Up" series, recorded at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles and during the opening weekend of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, we...

Next Up Mini-Session: Urtzi Grau and Cristina Goberna Pesudo of Fake Industries Architectural Agonism

11 Nov 2015

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Season two of Archinect Sessions premiered last week – featuring a discussion on the Chicago Architecture Biennial with Log director (and co-cura...

Premiere Episode of Archinect Sessions One-to-One with Neil Denari

09 Nov 2015

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Our new podcast, Archinect Sessions: One-to-One is an interview show, straight-up. Each episode features a single interview with a notable figure in ...

Second Season, Second City

06 Nov 2015

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It's great to be back. Our second season of Archinect Sessions premieres today in a new, shorter format, with an episode devoted to the Chicago Archit...

Next Up Mini-Session: the Dry Futures jury reflects on California's drought

04 Nov 2015

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Tomorrow (!!!) we'll premiere season two of Archinect Sessions, and in anticipation of the launch, we've been posting Mini-Sessions interviews, reco...

Next Up Mini-Session: Marcelo Spina of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S

03 Nov 2015

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Leading up to (and continuing after) the premiere of Archinect Sessions' second season on November 5, we're posting individual interviews as Mini-Ses...

Next Up Mini-Session: Andrew Atwood and Anna Neimark of First Office

02 Nov 2015

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If you couldn't join us during our first-ever live-podcasting series, "Next Up", held at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles' Chinatown and at the ope...

Next Up Mini-Session: Panel discussion with Claus Benjamin Freyinger, Andrew Kovacs and Jimenez Lai

01 Nov 2015

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After accumulating over four hours of live interviews from our first-ever live-podcasting series, "Next Up", held at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angel...

Next Up Mini-Session: Sarah Lorenzen, chair at Cal Poly Pomona and resident director of the Neutra VDL House

31 Oct 2015

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After we wrapped our first live-podcasting series, "Next Up", held at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles' Chinatown and at the opening weekend of the ...

Next Up Mini-Session: John Southern of Urban Operations

30 Oct 2015

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Archinect recently wrapped its first live-podcasting series, "Next Up", held at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles' Chinatown and at the opening weekend...

Session 40: Now and Then

30 Jul 2015

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Thom Mayne and Eui-Sung Yi join us to discuss their recently published book, Haiti Now – a herculean resource on post-disaster urbanism in Haiti, ...

Latent Complexity

24 Jul 2015

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We're very excited to have Denise Scott Brown on this episode, to share some family history behind the Vanna Venturi house – the house that her husb...

Session 38: From Z to A

16 Jul 2015

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This week on the podcast: Gehry's design for the Eisenhower memorial is finally approved, Zaha Hadid's Olympic Stadium in Tokyo gets cut-and-pasted in...

Session 37: Parisian Exports and Silicon Valley Imports

09 Jul 2015

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Our episode this week revolves around Paris – city of lights, riots, artists and cheese-shaped skyscrapers (or at least, those are the bits were tal...

Session 36: Poor Doors of Perception

02 Jul 2015

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This week, we dip into the swamp of whether so-called "poor doors" (separate entrances for affordable and market-rate housing tenants) are discriminat...

Session 35: Hot Work in the Summertime

25 Jun 2015

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Lots of summer blockbuster news to discuss on this week's podcast. The winner of the Helsinki Guggenheim competition was announced (a young husband-wi...

Session 34: There is nothing so stable as change

18 Jun 2015

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Easily the biggest news of last week, and probably of this year, was the unveiling of BIG's design for 2WTC. For a project of such status, on such a h...

Session 33: Stargazing with Patrik Schumacher

11 Jun 2015

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This week, we devote the majority of our show to a discussion with Patrik Schumacher, about celebrity and the insularity of critical discourse in arch...

Session 32: For in that death of malls, what dreams may come

04 Jun 2015

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Dead malls and ghost boxes haunt this week's episode, featuring special guest and longtime 'Nector, Nam Henderson. Whether you're mourning or reveling...

Session 31: Hot Dogs Around the World, with James Biber

28 May 2015

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Inadvertently, this episode is all about food – where it comes from, where we eat it, and how it shapes national identity. Our discussion on food an...

Session 30: Inside the Institute

21 May 2015

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The Sessions co-hosts met all together for the first time in the meatspace last week, making the pilgrimage to Atlanta, Georgia for the AIA National C...

Session 29: Problem-solving with Thomas Heatherwick

14 May 2015

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Prior to his artist talk at the Hammer Museum last week, nearing the culmination of his massively successful "Provocations" show, Thomas Heatherwick s...

Session 28: Ned Cramer's Fantastic Fineprint on the Art of Publishing

08 May 2015

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When he was a kid, Ned Cramer, editor in chief of Architect, wanted to be the first architect-pope. After enrolling in architecture school and weighi...

Session 27: "The trauma of rebuilding"

30 Apr 2015

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Last Saturday, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Kathmandu, precipitating catastrophic destruction throughout Nepal and a death toll currently marked ...

Session 26: "Modernism - Peru's Common Denominator"

23 Apr 2015

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This week on the podcast, Paul shares an interview he did in Lima with Sebastián Bravo, a local architect and maker of award-winning pisco. Studying ...

Session 25: "Clarity and Contradiction"

16 Apr 2015

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Thanks to Patrik Schumacher, this week's episode is mostly about criticism. We respond to a polemic/rant left by Schumacher on his Facebook page, "In ...

Session 24: "American Disruption, at Home and Abroad"

09 Apr 2015

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Whatever becomes of Facebook’s corporate future – and therefore the consequential Internet – will play out in the world of Frank Gehry. The arch...

Session 23: "The Erection, the Inkblot, and the RFRA Riff-Raff"

02 Apr 2015

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It’s been a strange week, especially in Indiana. On this episode, before getting to the RFRA-ff, we hit on a neat architectural inversion: LA-heavyw...

Session 22: "Starts with me, ends with us"

25 Mar 2015

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We are delighted to devote the entirety of this episode to an interview with Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. Our discussion spanned their nearly 30 yea...

Session 21: "Fast Forward, Look Back"

19 Mar 2015

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Last week, Michael Graves passed away at the age of 80. In the aftermath, much attention has been paid to his most eye-catching work, but as often occ...

Session 20: "Three Funerals and a Curator"

12 Mar 2015

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Ten minutes before we sat down to record this week's episode, the Pritzker Prize Laureate was announced – posthumously. The winner, Frei Otto (1925 ...

Session 19: "Don't be Evil, Don't Throw Stones"

05 Mar 2015

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This week Amelia, Paul, Donna and Ken discuss the somewhat controversial Google Headquarters design by BIG and Heatherwick. On a completely different ...

Session 18: "Moonwalking Or (The Expected Virtue of Social Architecture) with Andrés Jaque, winner of MoMA PS1's YAP"

26 Feb 2015

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Winner of this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, Andrés Jaque of the Office for Political Innovation, joins us on the podcast this week to d...

Session 17: "From the 101 to the 60 to the 10 to the 111"

19 Feb 2015

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Far away from the snowscapes peppering the rest of the country, the salt flats and dry martinis of Palm Springs exists in a time and place apart. An o...

Session 16: "All Work and All Play", with Jimenez Lai and Robert Ivy, CEO of the AIA

13 Feb 2015

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What do Robert Ivy FAIA, EVP/CEO of the AIA, and Jimenez Lai, of Bureau Spectacular, have in common? Other than they're both architects, not so much! ...

Session 15: Let's be Frank: A conversation with Aaron Betsky, incoming Dean at Taliesin

05 Feb 2015

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It seems as if the tumult and intrigue that ran through Frank Lloyd Wright's life has lived on at Taliesin. After being embroiled in accreditation iss...

Session 14: His bjark is BIGger than his bjite—A chat with Bjarke Ingels at the opening of BIG's "Hot to Cold" exhibition

29 Jan 2015

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This episode is a doozy. Paul and Amelia left the temperate sunshine of Los Angeles for Washington, DC's frigid monumentality, to interview Bjarke Ing...

Session 13: Elizabeth Timme Gives No F*cks

22 Jan 2015

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At first we thought we could cram all of this week's amazing podcast content in under one hour. That dream was not to be, but we decided to give no f*...

Session 12: Talking Multicultural Modernism with Ehrlich Architects

15 Jan 2015

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In celebration of Ehrlich Architects winning the 2015 AIA Architecture Firm Award, we had Steven Ehrlich and Takashi Yanai in-studio to reflect back ...

Session 11: Another year, Another Architecture

08 Jan 2015

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Happy new year! We're happy to announce Archinect Session's inaugural 2015 episode features a conversation with urban planner, architect, artist, prog...

Archinect Sessions XS: 2015 Predictions

18 Dec 2014

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This week, with the encroaching holiday craziness picking up steam, we're releasing a mini-version of Archinect Sessions to cap off the 2014 podcastin...

Session 10: Christopher Hawthorne and the Powers of 10

11 Dec 2014

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How far we've come: this week, we're thrilled to have Christopher Hawthorne on the podcast, architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times. Paul, Ameli...

Session 9: Coffee & Pop-Up Architecture

04 Dec 2014

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This week, architect-turned-coffee entrepreneur Yeekai Lim of Cognoscenti Coffee joins us in-studio, to talk pop-up shops and hospitality architecture...

Session 8: Michael Rotondi and "The Sense of Place"

26 Nov 2014

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Michael Rotondi joins us in-studio this week, for a special conversation with Orhan Ayyüce about architecture education and Rotondi's Los Angeles roo...

Session 7: The Peaks and Valleys of Architectural Value

20 Nov 2014

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This week on the podcast: continuing our earlier discussion on student debt, special guest (and fellow Archinector) Quilian Riano joins Paul, Amelia...

Session 6: Money Changes Everything

13 Nov 2014

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This week on the podcast: student debt, Chicago's "State of the Art of Architecture", and our new series, Archinect's Lexicon. Paul, Amelia, Donna ...