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Vincenzo Latronico

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live in London at the Barbican Centre earlier this month, this episode marks the publication of Order Prevails in Berlin, a new essay by...

How Three Leading Architecture Practices Are Using AI Today

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Architects from Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects discuss how AI is entering the design studio, from generative...

Daryan Knaoblauch

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Daryan Knoblauch runs the eponymous architecture practice founded in 2024 in Berlin. His approach follows socio-cultural investigations of the present...

Remembering John Morgan

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The graphic designer John Morgan passed away last September at the age of 52. His final book, Baskerville’s Teardrop Explodes, was published this we...

Floris van der Poel's Favourite Things

20 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Floris van der Poel comes on the pod this week to talk about the best work he’s discovered over the past year. Project list (in order of discussion)...

Kenneth Frampton (Part 2)

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In part 2 of Kenneth Frampton’s Scaffold interview, we focus on his own experiences - from his early desire to become a farmer, and the long hesitat...

Kenneth Frampton

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Architectural historian Kenneth Frampton remembers the exact moment of his political awakening. Arriving in the United States in 1965, flying over the...

playbody

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s episode considers a part of the built environment that’s often overlooked in architectural discourse, yet has become one of the most vibra...

OMA at 50

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This special guest episode marks the launch of the podcast OMA at 50.Conceived and produced by architect Richard Hall, the series explores the Office ...

Truwant + Rodet +

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Truwant+Rodet+ is a Basel-based architecture firm founded in 2015 by Charlotte Truwant and Dries Rodet, which operates across the field...

Why be an architect today?

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scaffold is back this week, with an episode that asks a simple question: why be an architect today?The Architecture Foundation is based inside the off...

Paul Shepheard

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Shepheard is a British architect and writer known for his philosophical and multidisciplinary approach to architecture. Shepheard was a student a...

Fredi Fischli (Kontextur Podcast Festival)

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live from the Kontextur Podcast Festival at Khaus in Basel, this episode features a conversation with the curator Fredi Fischli. Fredi Fischl...

Crit: Venice Biennale with Emily Conklin, Fabrizio Gallanti & Phin Harper

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A month after the opening of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, we've invited three critics to come on the show to help make sense of what was ...

Patrick McGraw (Heavy Traffic Magazine)

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick McGraw is the editor and publisher of Heavy Traffic magazine. Based in NYC, designed by Richard Turley and featuring contributions as varied a...

Jacques Herzog & Nicholas Serota with Ellis Woodman

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To mark the 25th Anniversary of the Tate Modern this week, the Architecture Foundation's Director Ellis Woodman speaks with two key figures behind the...

Carlo Ratti

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carlo Ratti is is an Italian architect, engineer and educator, and the curator of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. As the 2025 Venice ...

Michael Meredith

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Meredith is a co-founder with Hilary Sample of MOS, an architecture practice based in New York.MOS is an acronym derived from Meredith and Sam...

Tacita Dean

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally aired in Novemebr 2022."The direction in which I’m going is never fixed. Because I don’t know where I’m going, I’m...

Seun Oduwole

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Late last year a new museum opened its doors in Lagos, Nigeria, called The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History. It is among a new genera...

Dima Srouji

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dima Srouji is a Palestinian architect, artist, and researcher born in 1990 in Nazareth. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Kingston University...

Alison Crawshaw

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alison Crawshaw, whose practice encompasses architecture, landscape, urban design, and installations, is on the pod this week.In our conversation we f...

badweather

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

badweather, founded by Oli Brenner, Sophie Mei Birkin and Leo Sixsmith in 2019, are an architecture and scenography collective based in London.badweat...

Gonçalo André Pires

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gonçalo André Pires is an architect and co-founder, together with Pedro Santo Saraiva, of Studio Sotnas, a practice based between Aarhus and Li...

Dean Kissick

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Art writer and former Spike columnist Dean Kissick stops by the pod to discuss his most recent article "The Painted Protest: How politics de...

Edward Jones

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Edward Jones is the co-author, along with the late Christopher Woodward, of the Guide to the Architecture of London, which, originally published in 19...

dorsa

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

dorsa is a collective architecture practice founded by Yufei He, James Horkulak and Pan Hu in 2021. In their own words, they "seek to capture multiple...

The Rights of the Architectural Worker

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was recorded live at the Barbican Centre's Frobisher Auditorium on 25 June 2024, with panelists Bob Allies of Allies and Morrison; Charli...

Petra Blaisse

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Petra Blaisse is a designer and founding partner of Inside / Outside.Blaisse started her career in 1978 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the D...

Horst

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Architecture Foundation gratefully acknowledge the Delegation of Flanders to the UK for their support in producing this episode.Recorded on site a...

Summacumfemmer

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Florian Summa and Anne Femmer are founding directors of the Leipzig based Summacumfemmer and guest professors at the University of the Arts in Be...

Minsuk Cho

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Minsuk Cho is a Korean architect and designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion."We have a demanding role as architects, and I think movies are a goo...

On Architectural Education

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, AF Trustee Shumi Bose moderates a discussion on the state of architectural education with panellists Adrian Lahoud (Dean, School of Archite...

Hermann Czech with David Kohn

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This special episode of Scaffold features a brief interview with the Austrian architect Herman Czech conducted by David Kohn in advance of Czech's 10....

Takaharu & Yui Tezuka

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Takaharu and Yui Tezuka founded Tezuka Architects in 1994 and are best known for their experimental designs for schools and kindergartens, chief among...

Phineas Harper

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Phineas Harper develops cultural programmes that engage broad audiences with architecture and design. A regular contributor to The Guardian and f...

Asif Khan (April 2022)

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode originally aired in April 2022; Scaffold will be back with a new episode next week. Asif Khan is a designer of buildings, landscapes, exh...

101: Fernanda Eberstadt

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fernanda Eberstadt is a New York born writer living in Europe. She has published five novels and two books of non-fiction, the latest of which is BITE...

100: Cristina Gamboa (Lacol)

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cristina Gamboa is a co-founder of the Barcalona-based architecture cooperative Lacol."We are constantly fighting with budgets, and are often left wit...

99: Takero Shimazaki

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Takero Shimazaki is director of the London-based practice t–sa, which he co-founded with Yuli Toh in 1996."You can’t control everything as an arch...

98: Jamie Fobert

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

“The artist working alone in their studio is the antithesis of what we do every day as architects […] and yet one hopes that the work you produce ...

97: Apparata

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Lobo Brennan and Astrid Smitham founded Apparata, their London-based architecture practice, in 2016."What we are always trying to do is a kin...

96: Hans Ulrich Obrist (Part 2)

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. This episode features Part 2 of his interview for Scaffol...

95: Hans Ulrich Obrist (Part 1)

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. "We need protected spaces for art, yes – that's wh...

94: Rural Urban Framework

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rural Urban Framework is a research and design collaborative based at the University of Hong Kong, directed by Joshua Bolchover and John Lin. Conducte...

93: Tosin Oshinowo

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tosin Oshinowo is a Lagos-based architect and curator of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial. Titled "The beauty of Impermanence, an Architecture ...

92: Resolve Collective

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

RESOLVE is the Croydon-based collective practice of Akil Scafe-Smith, Seth Scafe-Smith and Melissa Haniff. “We want people to look at our work and t...

Dank Lloyd Wright (Power & Public Space)

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Scaffold is on holiday this week – instead here's an interview with the IG architecture meme account Dank Lloyd Wright recorded last year for the po...

91: Theo de Meyer

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Theo de Meyer is an architect based in Ghent whose work moves between architecture, design and the arts. He and doorzon interieur architecten together...

90: Tony Fretton (Part 2)

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Fretton founded his eponymous architecture practice in 1982. His early work in London, including the Lisson Gallery (1986-1992), was influential ...

89: Tony Fretton (Part 1)

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Fretton founded his eponymous architecture practice in 1982. His early work in London, including the Lisson Gallery (1986-1992), was influential ...

88: About Buildings + Cities

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Luke Jones and George Gingell are hosts of the podcast About Buildings and Cities. "We’re interested in getting into things that are obscure [in arc...

87: Ben Bowling

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Bowling is Professor of Criminology at Kings College London, and the son of the celebrated painter Frank Bowling, whose studio he now manages."Fra...

86: Asli Çiçek

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Asli Çiçek is an Architect and writer based in Brussels, whose work focuses on scenography and exhibition design. "Culture is not a luxury. I don’...

85: Charlotte Cooper

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Charlotte Cooper is the author of Poundbury: a Queer Tour of Monarchy, published earlier this year by 33 Editions. "One of my bugbears about Poundbury...

84: Robin Winogrond

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Robin Winogrond is a Landscape Architect based in Zurich."I try to never look at what I expect to see, but to see in a raw way, in an uninformed way, ...

83: Karin Templin (At Home in London: The Mansion Block)

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Karin Templin is an architect, educator, and author of the book At Home in London: The Mansion Block, co-published by The Architecture Foundation and ...

62: Lesley Lokko (April 2022)

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode originally aired in April 2022. Lesley Lokko is founder of the African Futures Institute and curator of the 2023 Venice Architecture Bien...

82: Sumayya Vally

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sumayya Vally is a Musilm South African architect, and founder of the practice Counterspace. “Architecture is abstract, and I think what I’m doing...

81: David Gissen

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

David Gissen is a New York-based author, designer, and educator who works in the fields of architecture, landscape, and urban design. His book, T...

80: b+

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

b+ is a collaborative architecture practice that operates across different media and formats. The practice seeks to engage with challenges of eco-soci...

79: Julian Opie

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Julian Opie is an artist based in London. We create models to deal with the world and to function in the world. It’s how we perceive the world and o...

78: Carmody Groarke

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Carmody Groarke is an architecture practice based in London."This idea of thinness [of surfaces] has to do with pragmatism and thrift, but it's also a...

77: Albert Williamson Taylor (Part 2)

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Albert Williamson Taylor is a design engineer and founder of AKT II.“The goal has always got to be the project – the design – everything el...

76: Albert Williamson Taylor (Part 1)

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Albert Williamson Taylor is a design engineer and founder of AKT II. “The goal has always got to be the project – the design – everything e...

75: Thomas Demand

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Demand is an artist working in Berlin and Los Angeles"When architects look at my work it’s like when you show your work to your mother – sh...

49: Esther Choi (July 2021)

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was recorded in October of 2020, and originally aired in July of 2021. Esther Choi is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and write...

43: Sara Hendren (October 2020)

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode originally aired in October 2020Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering.“Dis...

74: Thomas Heatherwick

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Heatherwick is a designer and founder of Heatherwick Studio in London."I’m inspired by people who don’t try to impress other people in thei...

73: Tacita Dean

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tacita Dean is a visual artist who works in Berlin and Los Angeles "The direction in which I’m going is never fixed. Because I don’t know where I’...

72: Sam Chermayeff

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Chermayeff is an architect based in Berlin."The success of all interiors are specifics – specific wobbles, specific things in the way, specific ...

71: Soft Baroque

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Nicholas Gardner and Saša Štucin founded the design practice Soft Baroque in 2013, and are currently based in Ljubljana. “For us, the satisfa...

70: Richard Wentworth

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Wentworth is an artist based in London. "Without feeling sorry for myself, I feel like a bit of a misfit […] I don’t really have a tidy se...

69: Moshe Safdie

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Moshe Safdie is an architect based in Boston who first came to prominence through his Habitat 67 project, a modular housing prototype constructed for ...

68: Deem Journal

01 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Deem Journal co-founders Nu Goteh, Alice Grandoit and Marquise Stillwell discuss an expanded definition of design as a social process. “publishing i...

67: Flores & Prats

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Flores & Prats are an architecture practice based in Barcelona. “The theatre and the common spaces are the same experience. Going to the theatre...

Introducing: Power & Public Space

13 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing Power & Public Space, a new podcast from Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation. This episode features a conversation with pro...

66: Max Pinckers

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Max Pinckers is a photographer based in Brussels.“The subject and themes [of my photographs] are a reflection of how I see photography, or how I wan...

65: Freek Persyn

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Freek Persyn is professor of architecture and urban transformation at ETH in Zurich, and together with Johan Anrys and Peter Swinnen founded the pract...

64: Carla Juaçaba

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Carla Juacaba is a Brazilian architect based in London. “I’m compelled by theatre for its impermanence, that things end, in a way that it’s...

63: Asif Khan

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Asif Khan is a designer of buildings, landscapes, exhibitions and installations. “It’s helpful sometimes to think that architecture is made u...

62: Lesley Lokko

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lesley Lokko is founder of the African Futures Institute and curator of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. “I don’t see myself as being ‘...

61: James Taylor Foster

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

James Taylor Foster is a writer and curator of contemporary architecture and design at ArkDes. "When I think about curatorial practice I start to...

60: Paloma Gormley

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Paloma Gormley is a founding director of both Practise Architecture and Material Cultures, bringing together design, research and action towards a pos...

59: Takeshi Hayatsu

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Takeshi Hayatsu is an architect based in London and founding director of Hayatsu Architects. “ …That sort of fear, and darkness beyond our control...

Announcing: The European Prize for Urban Public Space

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The European Prize for Urban Public Space is an observatory of European cities that recognises the best works to create, recover, transform and improv...

Rerun – 36: Andrew Clancy

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode originally aired on 23 April 2020. It was recorded in person in at the Kingston School of Art in December of 2019. Clancy Moore architect...

Rerun – 35: Francesca Torzo

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode originally aired on 9 April 2020. It was recorded in person in a noisy hotel cafe, so the audio quality is variable (it gets better after...

58: Space Popular

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Founded by Lara Lesmes & Fredrik Hellberg, Space Popular is an experimental design practice that has made its name in exploring the architectural pote...

57: Ryan Scavnicky

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Scavnicky is an educator, architectural theorist and founder of the practice Extra Office. He's also been described as "the godfather of the arch...

56: Lee Ivett (Baxendale)

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lee Ivett is an architect, educator and founder of the participatory architecture, art and design studio Baxendale – a practice best known for devel...

55: Max Creasy

20 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Max Creasy is an architectural photographer based in Berlin.“I’m more interested now in formulating my own [photographic] language, which is a mix...

54: Hélène Binet

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hélène Binet is an architectural photographer based in London "In a construction site you imagine what remains unfinished - you see the structure bu...

53: William Scott & Sarah Galender Meyer

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

William Scott is a self-taught artist based in Oakland, California. Scott works out of a gallery and studio called Creative Growth that advances the i...

Rerun - 4: Pablo Bronstein (March 2018)

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

[This episode originally aired on 21 March 2018]Pablo Bronstein is an artist based in London. "I’m from a generation that lives entirely within iron...

Rerun - 24: Mary Duggan (May 2019)

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

[This episode originally aired on 9 May 2019] Mary Duggan was a founding partner of Duggan Morris Architects, and established Mary Duggan Architects i...

52: Job Floris

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Job Floris is co-founder of Monadnock, an architecture practice based in Rotterdam. “A lot of ideas and buildings that we find intriguing were part ...

51: Lisa Robertson (Part 2)

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Robertson is a poet and art writer. “There are parts of consciousness that go unsaid, that have not yet found the language or the representati...

50: Lisa Robertson (Part I)

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Robertson is a poet and art writer. “[Vitruvius’s original notion of] “commodiousness” as a receptive potential in architecture — arch...

A rerun, and an update

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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