Attention — Audio Journal for Architecture
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
7D. Playing the Detective
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the artist, puzzle-maker, and escape room designer Laura E. Hall about the design of escape rooms for the pu...
7E. Bypass Codes
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the investigative journalist and veteran beat reporter Caryn Dolley about the use of biometric and building ...
7A. Introduction
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Megan Eardley introduces Issue 7 by relating contemporary spatial practices to the literary detective story and present day political...
7B. On the Threshold of Detectability
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Like proof, evidence typically refers to things, traces, marks, or signs, that can be studied to establish relevant facts and evaluate competing theor...
7C. Invisibility As Form
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Megan Eardley invites listeners to reflect on the way that detective work operates between form and event. She interviews the artist ...
7F. The Sound Of Secrecy
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the writer and artist Bryan Finoki. He describes how he came to study the security industry and reflects on ...
7G. Dark Freqs
02 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode presents Dark Freqs, an original sound piece by Bryan Finoki. Please note that the piece incorporates recordings of police brutality.
6A. Community Design As A Process
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 1, Anna Goodman explains how contemporary architects in the United States often pursue community-engaged work through the design of process...
6B. Karl Linn and the Idea of Neighborhood Commons
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 2, Anna Goodman describes a shift in the way architects in the United States viewed community starting in the early 1960s. Using audio clip...
6C. Ecological Community At People’s Park
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 3, Anna Goodman explores how a focus on the process of design over its products located community design at the intersection of anti-instit...
6D. Carl Anthony, Race and Environmentalism
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 4, Molly Esteve describes the life and work of the architect and environmental justice advocate Carl Anthony. Using Anthony’s own words a...
5A. What is Theory?
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This piece asks the question: “what is theory?” It begins by attempting to define “theory” as a term or as a concept, a task that involves add...
5B. What is Architectural Theory?
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This piece asks the question: “what is architectural theory?” It asks what the phrase “architectural theory” names for us, how architectural t...
5C. How did Architectural Theory Change over Time?
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses the question “how has architectural theory changed over time?” In particular, it explores the longue durée of two millennia ...
5D. Is Architectural Theory Western or Global?
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This piece asks “is architectural theory Western or can it be global?” This means asking: is theory universal or is it geographically particular? ...
5E. How do you Teach Architectural Theory?
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This piece asks “how do you teach architectural theory?” We ask what are the ways that each person teaches architectural theory in their specific ...
5F. What are Architectural Theory Classes for?
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This piece asks “what are architectural theory classes for?” What is the purpose of the architectural theory class in relation to architectural de...
5G. Is Theory Dead?
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This piece asks “is architectural theory dead?” This might seem a strange question to ask given the lengthy discussion throughout the issue. Yet, ...
4A. Introduction
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The introductory audio essay illuminates four aspects of sound in physical space—location, size, reverberation and environmental noise—with exampl...
4B. The Sound of Absence
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What is music like without the sound of a space? Historian Emily Thompson discusses the aesthetics, technology and politics of spatial absence at the ...
4C. Even Better than the Real Thing
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1950s, classical record producers were fixated on realism, aspiring to put listeners in the ‘best seat of an acoustically perfect hall.’ No...
4D. The Acoustic Orchestrations
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The pianist Glenn Gould was dogmatic about his recording setup, placing the microphone as close as possible to his piano to exclude the sound of the...
4E. Bach, Sax, Space
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One day, while practicing the prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite #1, Yasuaki Shimizu accidentally ran his tenor saxophone through a reverb machine. The s...
4F. Free Field / Pressure Field / Diffuse Field
06 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bad acoustics inspired Daniel Neumann to become a composer and sound artist. After struggling to tame echoes, flutter and too much reverberation as a ...
3A. Postmodernism
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses the term “Postmodernism” its history, legacy, and use within the discourse of architecture.
3B. Collecting
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses the term idea and practice of collecting as a current trope within architectural culture.
3C. Composition
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses the concept and practice of composition in architectural design. Formerly dominant in Beaux-Arts education and somewhat taboo in ...
3D. Kitsch
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses contemporary attitudes towards the idea of kitsch within the academy and architectural practice.
3E. Figuration
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses the concept of figuration in architectural discourse today.
3F. Critique
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses the practice of critique as it still operates within architectural design culture today. It taps a new generation of practitioner...
3G. Delight
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses the concept of delight in architectural discourse today.
3H. Discipline
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses the idea of discipline in architectural discourse today.
3I. Weirdness
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This piece addresses the concept of weirdness in architectural discourse today.
2A. Allen, Reiser and Meredith – Roundtable on Formalisms
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This round-table conversation between Stan Allen, Jesse Reiser and Michael Meredith addressed the personal experiences of the participants of formalis...
2B. Kilian and Adriaenssens – Form-Finding
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This interview with Axel Kilian and Sigrid Adriaenssens addressed the idea of form-finding in architectural design.
2C. Ricciardi and Rose – The Formlessfinder
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This interview with Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi addressed their project The Formless Finder.
2D. James Meyer – Minimalism
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This interview with the art historian James Meyer about formalism in minimalist art. The interview discussed his historical work on minimalism, Anne T...
2E. Jeff Kipnis – Affect
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This interview was with the architectural critic and theorist Jeff Kipnis following the publication of his new book, Jeff Kipnis, A Question of Qualit...
2F. Jorge Otero-Pailos – Phenomenology
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This interview with Jorge Otero-Pailos, author of Architecture’s Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern (Minnesota Press, 201...
2G. Michael Graves – Classical Form
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This interview with the late Michael Graves took place at his home in Princeton in 2012. The discussion addressed Graves’s interest in classical for...
2H. Bryon Roberts and Dora Epstein Jones – New Ancients
11 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation with Bryony Roberts and Dora Epstein Jones about their recent special edited issue of Log, no.31 “New Ancients.” The conversatio...
1A. Levine, Jennings, & Wood – Roundtable on Walter Benjamin
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is a roundtable discussion on the Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility” examining ...
1B. Harry Francis Mallgrave – Architecture and Perception
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is an interview with Harry Francis Mallgrave, author of The Architect’s Brain : Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture (Wiley, 2009)....
1C. Mark Johnson – Architecture and Neuroscience
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is an interview with Mark Johnson, author of Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Basic Books, 1999). It addresse...
1D. Sylvia Lavin – Architectural Attention
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is an interview with Sylvia Lavin, author of Form Follows Libido Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture (MIT, 2004). I...
1E. Tim Holmes – Attention Tracking Technology
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is an interview with Tim Holmes, Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. It addresses Holmes research on new devel...
1F. Stan Allen – Exit Interview
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is an interview with the outgoing Dean of Princeton University, Stan Allen. It addresses his education and training as an architect, asse...
1G. Alejandro Zaera-Polo – Entry Interview
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is an interview with the incoming Dean of Princeton University in 2012, Alejandro Zaera-Polo. It addresses his assessment of the school at ...
1H. Jaffer Kolb – Venice Biennale 2012
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is an interview with Jaffer Kolb by Alek Beirig. It addresses curation of the 2012 Venice Biennale, Common Ground by David Chipperfield.
1I. Francois Leininger – American Presidential Libraries
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is an interview with the architect Francois Leininger about his research into the history of presidential libraries.
1K. Daniel Perlin – Deep Listening
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This is an experimental sound piece by Daniel Perlin, a sound artist living and working in New York. It is an exploration of deep listening based upon...
1J. Joseph Bedford – Building Review, SANAA’s Glass Pavilion
13 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This piece is a Building Review of SANAA, Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2006) by Joseph Bedford.