Negroni Talks
Episodes
Negroni Talks #55 - Architecture As Algorithm: The Demise of Design?
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture As Algorithm: The Demise of Design?As AI storms the gates of the architectural profession, building designers like many other creatives a...
Negroni Talks #S19 - Keepin’ It Up: What Does It Actually Mean For A Building To Perform?
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The building industry has a huge impact in the context of carbon emissions, energy consumption and climate change. Whilst ‘adaptive reuse’ has bec...
Negroni Talks #54 - HOME ECONOMICS: Short Term Gain or Longer Term Pain?
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
HOME ECONOMICS: Short Term Gain or Longer Term Pain?The City has always maintained a duality as a permanent place of impermanence, with the perpetual ...
Negroni Talks #S18 - Quality Streets: How To Ensure That Ramsgate’s Future Is Sweet?
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Negroni Talks #S18 - Quality Streets: How To Ensure That Ramsgate’s Future Is Sweet? Ramsgate is a place on the edge, full of potential and opportu...
Negroni Talks #53 - Mean-while…. cyclical change or cynical claims in the city?
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The city continually changes despite its perceived permanence as a place; centuries of temporary inhabitation by all kinds of people passing through a...
Negroni Talks #52 - “Kiss My Kl-arse” : how influential is CLASS in the creation our built environment?
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Robert Hughes stated in The Shock Of The New, “In the C19th, Architecture built palaces for the rich, villas for the upper bourgoise, and ceremon...
Negroni Talks #51 - New Towns: (Any) New Ideas?
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
[NOTE: In the opening 18 minutes the recording contains background noise due to technical issues on the night]New Towns: (Any) New Ideas?The New Town ...
Negroni Talks #50 - IMBYISM: Objection! Overruled?
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Around the world tensions often surround the arrival of a new building development, which challenges the status quo and has implications for local peo...
Negroni Talks #S14 - Is Architecture Coming Round To The Circular Economy?
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The UK public love The Repair Shop on TV, as grandad’s favourite old toy is given a new lease of life. Sadly, in terms of the climate crisis, the re...
Negroni Talks #S13 - QUEER EYE FOR THE RESI: A Challenge To Housing Conventions
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The different typologies of building and space in which we live are broad and disparate, as housing models have evolved over the centuries to suit dif...
Negroni Talks #48 -Pressing Problems: Architecture (Un)Covered?
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Architects don’t just design buildings, they also ‘craft narratives’ to help explain them. Storytelling and the art of telling a good story play...
Negroni Talks #S12 - Fit For Purpose: Are Architects Built For The 21st Century?
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do we think that architects are fit-for-purpose in the 21st century? The world is seemingly changing at an incredibly rapid pace, with the needs of cl...
Negroni Talks #s11 - Westward Ho! From Ealing Green to Old Oak Common
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sir John Soane built Pitzhanger Manor at a time when Ealing was considered a nice location to have a ‘country retreat’. Things have obviously move...
Negroni Talk #47 - So Giving Co-Living: Good Intention Or Bad Invention?
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re living in housing crisis, and apparently a loneliness epidemic with everyone shut away doing their own thing behind closed doors. Surely the a...
Negroni Talks #46 - Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation: An Age Old Problem In Architecture?
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You’re an architect until you die, it’s a vocation and not a job. At least, that’s what some people would have you believe, with starchitects co...
Negroni Talk #45 - The Last Bastion: A Battleground Between Value And Values?
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Barbican is under siege! This might seem to be a natural and unremarkable occurrence for a medieval fortified outpost. However, the Barbican in qu...
Negroni Talk #44 - Fabric Of Fear: A Discussion About Designing Out Danger In The Urban Realm.
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One headphone out, keys in hand and checking the street behind you is a familiar experience for a lot of people on their way home, particularly women ...
Negroni Talks #43 - Mods or Trads? History and Histrionics In Architecture
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mods or Trads? History and Histrionics In Architecture According to social media, we are in the middle of a culture war for both the past and future ...
Negroni Talk #S10 Meanwhile……..Materials? : Progressive Ingredients In A Regressive Industry
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve seen hemp houses and walls made of rammed earth, rammed stone and anything else you can ‘ram’. Timber has designers drooling at the mentio...
Negroni Talk #42 -Fees F:or Free: The Divide And Conquer Of Architecture?
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How many times have we heard the phrase “race to the bottom” when it comes to architects discussing fees and design quality. With practices closin...
Negroni Talk #S9 AI or Die: Advance or Interference?
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Negroni Talk #S9 AI or Die: Advance or Interference? by Fourthspace
Negroni Talks #A2
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Having provoked debates interrogating all things “Architectural” from its base in east London, “Negroni talks…!” is hitting the road to disc...
Negroni Talk #41 - Absurdity In Architecture
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Absurdity In Architecture When you think about it, Architecture is quite absurd. The importance placed upon the differences between one building desi...
Negroni Talks #40 Decency By Design
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Decency By Design What does it mean to be an ethical architect? Is it about the way you run an architectural practice, the type of work you produce, ...
Negroni Talk #S7 - FROM HERO TO (NET)ZERO: Carbon Footprints
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Negroni Talk #S7 - FROM HERO TO (NET)ZERO: Carbon Footprints We are in a climate emergency and the built environment contributes 30-40% of the world’...
Negroni Talk #39 - Talking Shit! DRAIN AGE
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Talking Shit! DRAIN AGE Stone Age... Iron Age... we are now living through the Drain Age... Regular news reports of flash flooding showing homes fil...
Negroni Talks N°12 ‘Affordable’ : The Problem With Affordable Housing
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘Affordable’ : The Problem With Affordable Housing In the age of austerity 'affordable housing' is heralded as a basic requirement for new build ...
Negroni Talks N°11 Mind The Gap: The Chasm Between Practice And Education
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mind The Gap: The Chasm Between Practice And Education After years spent designing wondrous master-plans for fictional cities, debating the rights an...
Negroni Talks N°10 Londons Borderlands: Territorial Pissings?
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Londons Borderlands: Territorial Pissings? (Borderlands: Boundaries Within The City State) London is a wonderful metropolis but those that live and ...
Negroni Talks N°9 I’m So Bored With The RIBA: Irrelevance Institutionalised?
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m So Bored With The RIBA: Irrelevance Institutionalised? Everyone loves taking a swipe at the RIBA. Either it's out of date, too bureaucratic, to...
Negroni Talk #8 Fail Safe, Safe Fail, Fail Better!
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fail Safe, Safe Fail, Fail Better! In engineering and design, a fail-safe is a system that mitigates further harm or failure. Mistakes, bad decision...
Negroni Talk #7 Thick As A Brick: Dis Honesty And Architecture…
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thick As A Brick: Dis Honesty And Architecture… Over years of architectural and building history, the approach to design has frequently been suppor...
Negroni Talks N°5 Podcast
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Negroni Talks N°5 Podcast by Fourthspace
#A2 The Politics Of Architecture Series: BRISTOL
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Having provoked debates interrogating all things “Architectural” from its base in east London, “Negroni talks…!” is hitting the road to disc...
Negroni Talk #2 The Recognitions (architecture’s gentrification guilt)
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Recognitions (architecture’s gentrification guilt) Vyner Street is a locus for the shifting identity of London’s East End. Artists and creati...
Negroni Talk #4 What will Brexit actually look like ?
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What will Brexit actually look like ? The UK is leaving the EU and it seems that some politicians believe in the same kind of economic and cultural s...
Negroni Talk #3 – Where’s the punk in architecture ?
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Beatniks, punks and other countercultures were borne out of a restless discontent with the status quo and a desire to shift ideologies for new generat...
Negroni Talk #S3 - 25th September 2022 @ BARGEHOUSE . OXO TOWER WHARF . SOUTHBANK
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Craftwork: Man . Machine _ How Should Architects Be Material Synthesisers In An Electronic Age? In Association With Material Matters: Lots of archit...
Negroni Talk #S2 - 23rd September 2022 @ BARGEHOUSE . OXO TOWER WHARF . SOUTHBANK
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By The Seat Of Their Pants? Architects Designing Chairs. In Association With Material Matters: The Eames did it, Mies did it, even architecturally-e...
Negroni Talk #38 - 31.01.2023 The Picturesque #2: Estate Of Mind
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Social housing is incredibly important as one of the sectors where the work of architects and planners can have the most direct impact on cities and...
Negroni Talk #37 - 29th November 2022 The Picturesque #3: Vernacular Schmernacular
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Picturesque #3: Vernacular Schmernacular What the hell does ‘vernacular’ mean in architecture? The term is defined as "the language or di...
Negroni Talk #S6 For Better Of Worse It’s The Metaverse.
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In collaboration with Always Thinking & The Festival Of Hospitality The Negroni Talks have partnered up with the Festival of Hospitality as part ...
Negroni Talk #S5 The Alternative Stirling Prize
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, the great and the good of the British architecture scene gather to find out who will be crowned with the award for the best building in t...
Negroni Talk #36 The Picturesque #1: Representation And Architecture
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The history of architectural image making is ancient and, more often than not, involves a bit of propaganda. Designers have had to communicate their i...
Negroni Talks #35 Bjarking Up The Wrong Tree 24th May 2022
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Bjarking Up The Wrong Tree: STARCHITECTURE And The Role Of The Architect In The C21st The architect as a one-off design genius, an exploder of conven...
Negroni Talk #34 - 26th April 2022 Diverse By Design
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Many architects and developers talk the talk but can we actually deliver diversity through design? We’re seeing some great new neighbourhoods emergi...
Negroni Talk #33 Talking Shop! INSULATION
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Energy is a consumption that is killing us by degrees. Its production, usage and waste have long been a threat to the natural world and as a commodity...
Negroni Talk #32
18 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Talking Rubbish! BINS Local authorities have bin going mad! Whilst many architects, urban planners, housing associations and developers try to design...
Negroni Talk #31 - 19th October 2021
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Death By Design Construction has always been a dangerous (read: corrupt) game and it seems that the bigger the project, the greater the risks to worke...
Negroni Talk #30 - 29th April 2021
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture: Structuring Segregation? Poor Doors have hit the headlines are once again aimed at escalating levels of outrage, declaring that modern ...
Negroni Talk #29 - 1st April 2021
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Airing Architectures Dirty Laundry Series: #03 ARTWASHING Artists and gentrification already have an uncomfortable relationship. Creative communi...
Negroni Talk #28 - 11th March 2021
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Airing Architectures Dirty Laundry Series: #02 BAMEWASHING Of the many massive social upheavals of 2020, the BLM protests made us ask difficult q...
Negroni Talk #27 - 25th February 2021
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Airing Architectures Dirty Laundry Series: #01 GREENWASHING The science is clear on the construction industry, it's one of the biggest polluters ...
Negroni Talk #26 - 16th December 2020 There’s No L In Architecture
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There’s No L In Architecture: Musings On Making Less & More In The Coming New Year. It’s been an interesting year to say the least. The world...
Negroni Talk #25 - 30th June 2020 Space Invaders LIVE & ONLINE!
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Space Invaders: Architecture and A Freeing From The Physical. In the 2009 trial of the founders of Pirate Bay, the defendants were quoted as requesti...
Negroni Talk #24 - Stand & Deliver LIVE & ONLINE!
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stand & Deliver: The Roll Of Finance In Architecture On the development highways, when money flows, everything is good. The rich get richer, the ...
Negroni Talk #23 - 9th June 2020 - Icon Therefore I Am.
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Is the icon in architecture about to disappear? Love them or loathe them, there are a series of buildings and structures that have become ‘iconic’...
Negroni Talk #22 - 19th May 2020 Modern Architects Are Rubbish. (Banality II)
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Modern Architects Are Rubbish. (Banality II) Architects are supposedly part of the creative community so why are they so incapable of talking about c...
Negroni Talk #21 - The Joy Of Architecture
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Joy Of Architecture: Does Fun Follow Form, Function Fear & Finance? Where is the fun in contemporary architecture? As a process, creating bui...
Negroni Talk #20 - 09.03.20. Tinder Tender Procurement Lies
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Procurement is a pain. For architects seeking work in the public sector, progressive design & building knowledge is often overlooked for the cheap...
Negroni Talk #19 - 10.02.20 Awards: What Are They Good For? Absolutely Nuthin’!
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Awards: What Are They Good For? Absolutely Nuthin’! What is the point of Architectural Awards? Is it to win more work? Boost the ego of architects?...
Negroni Talk #18 - 28.01.20. Bully For You! Abuse And Architecture.
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Long hours and low pay are standard, all-nighters are a badge of honour, and leaving on time is derided as lacking the necessary commitment and 'worki...
Negroni Talk #13 - 24.06.19. Who’s Your Daddy? : Breaking The Class Ceiling
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Architecture has a difficult relationship with privilege. Everyone knows the profession is not diverse enough, which is not surprising given the fees ...
Negroni Talk #14 - 29.07.19. Holidays In The Sun: Climate Petitions And Protest
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The architectural community is very upset about climate change. They have banded together and done a petition and everything. Problem is, all the big ...
Negroni Talk #16 - 30.09.19. Jobs For The Boys? Gender In Construction
28 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve had enough of the straight white male dominating the development industry. We need more diversity in leadership positions to invest in the pla...
Negroni Talk #15 - 09.09.19. - Hot Gossip: Givin’ As Good As Ya Get!
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the information age knowledge is power and architects now seem unwillingly to part with their juicy titbits. Back stories, Chinese whispers and ins...
Negroni Talk#17 - 04.11.19. - The Crude The Bad And The Ugly
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why does British Housing Look So Mean & Nasty? There is an unattractive truth about British housing: the vast majority of it is really ugly. The b...