Building with Writing
Episodes
Building with Writing: An Exhibition
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Allen and Michael Meredith talk about the formation of Building with Writing and the role of architecture exhibitions in the discipline. Stan Al...
Building with Writing: Architecture Pedagogy
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Allen and Michael Meredith talk about the role of teaching in relation to writing and practicing and how they mutually form each other. Stan A...
Building with Writing: A Managing Editor
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meredith talks to Mónica Ponce de León about her experience as a managing editor at Assemblage, interests in typology and surface, as well a...
Building with Writing: A Thesis Student, Hilary Sample
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meredith talks to Hilary Sample about her experience with Stan Allen as his first thesis student at Princeton Univeristy, and architectural ed...
Building with Writing: From Object to Field: Field Conditions in Architecture and Urbanism
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Allen and Michael Meredith talk about one of Stan Allen’s most well-known texts, From Object to Field: Field Conditions in Architecture and Urb...
Building with Writing: Trek of the Arc, Liz Diller
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meredith talks to Liz Diller about her common experience as Stan Allen since the 1970s at Cooper Union, Institute for Architecture and Urban S...
Building with Writing: Architectural Pragmatism and Novelty
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Allen and Michael Meredith talk about Things in the Making—Contemporary Architecture and the Pragmatist Imagination at MoMA in 2000, and role o...
Building with Writing: Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Allen and Michael Meredith discuss the text Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays by Robin Evans, first published in 1986, an in...
Building with Writing: Mapping Shmapping, Greg Lynn
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meredith discusses with Greg Lynn about his experience with Stan Allen when they were graduate students at Princeton University School of Arch...
Building with Writing: The Solitude of Buildings
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Allen and Michael Meredith talk about The Solitude of Buildings by Rafael Moneo, as well as Stan Allen’s experience working for Rafael Moneo as...
Building with Writing: An Odd Couple, Jesse Reiser
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meredith talks to Jesse Reiser about his experience with Stan Allen as students at Cooper Union, and later as partners, colleagues and friends...
Building with Writing: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Allen and Michael Meredith discuss the text Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi, published in 1966. They talk about ar...
Building with Writing: Being There, Mark Lee
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Meredith talks to Mark Lee about Stan Allen’s position in the field through his trajectory as an architect, educator, writer and so on. ...
Building with Writing: Body of Work
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stan Allen and Michael Meredith trace through Stan Allen’s practice as an architect, and how the body of work, although not necessarily coherent, is...