Scaffold
Episodes
Ep 49: Esther Choi
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Esther Choi is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and writer trained in photography and architectural history and theory. “[In Le Corbuffet] ...
Ep 48: Sound Advice
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pooja Agrawal and Joseph Zeal Henry are co founders of @sound_x_advice _"[The Sound Advice book] comes out of Blackout Tuesday, and just seeing the sh...
Ep 47: Bêka & Lemoine
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Beka & Lemoine are documentary filmmakers based in Italy. “The question of fragmentation of thought and narration, which has necessarily an impact o...
Ep 46: Alvaro Barrington
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Alvaro Barrington is an artist working in New York and London.“In terms of cultural production, I do think that the erasure that has happened to wom...
Ep 45: Neri&Hu
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neri & Hu are an architecture and design practice based in Shanghai “The right projects aren’t defined by fees at all […] the right project...
Ep 44: The 100 Day Studio
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode of Scaffold features a conversation with Ellis Woodman and Rosie Gibbs-Stevenson of the Architecture Foundation.For 100 days from...
Ep 43: Sara Hendren
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering.“Disability knocks at the foundations of individu...
Ep 42: Chris Dorley Brown
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Dorley Brown is a photographer living and working in London I suspect that [I’m documenting] what you might call the last days of the civil ...
Ep 41: Cia Rinne
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cia Rinne is an artist, writer and poetI don’t want to think about the audience while I’m writing, and I’m not excluding anybody voluntarily –...
Ep 40: Adam Caruso
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Caruso is an architect and co-director of Caruso St. John"[When we started our practice] we were really interested in the syntax of architecture ...
Ep 39: Mabel O. Wilson with Dario Calmese (Institute of Black Imagination)
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode of Scaffold features a conversation between architect Mabel O. Wilson and Dario Calmese, host of the new podcast Institute of Bla...
Ep 38: Janina Gosseye
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Janina Gosseye is a scholar and co-editor, with Naomi Stead and Deborah Van der Plat, of the recently published Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in...
Ep 37: David Leech
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Leech is an architect based in London. I don’t have ‘big ideas’ [in my work] - and if I do, I do everything I can to undermine them. I do...
Ep 36: Andrew Clancy
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Clancy is a director of the Dublin-based practice Clancy Moore, and Professor of Architecture at the Kingston School of Art. “There isn’t a...
Ep 35: Francesca Torzo
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Francesca Torzo is an Architect based in Italy.“In all of our projects there is always a construction experiment, but that is never the purpose. It ...
Ep 34: Geoff Manaugh
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Manaugh is an architecture writer based in Los Angeles. He launched BLDGBLOG in 2004 and is the author most recently of The Burglar's Guide to t...
Ep 33: Michael Maltzan
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Maltzan is an architect based in Los Angeles. "I think it’s important to try to anticipate the city in the future […] to speculate about ...
Ep 32: Natsai Audrey Chieza
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Natsai Audrey Chieza is Founding Director of Faber Futures, a multidisciplinary design agency operating at the intersection of nature, technology, a...
Ep 31: John Patkau
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Patkau is an architect based in Vancouver."I always seek out the opposite. I’ve always been interested in architects who are least like me – ...
Ep 30: Shumi Bose
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shumi Bose is an architecture teacher, curator and editor."[Curation] is the idea of taking care of a conversation. Whether that conversation is for s...
Ep 29: Tom Kundig
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Kundig is a director of the Seattle-based architecture practice Olson Kundig."I think there is this danger in architecture, that it becomes so sel...
Ep 28: Farshid Moussavi
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Farshid Moussavi is an architect and educator based in London. "I’m interested in buildings, not architects. The building is independent once the ar...
Ep 3: Charlotte Cooper
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Cooper is a Psychotherapist, Cultural Worker and Fat Activist. “The therapy I do, and maybe therapy in general enables people to think abo...
Ep 27: Deyan Sudjic
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum in London “A friend of mine once said to me no magazine you’ll ever want to read will ever sell more...
Ep 26: David Kohn
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
David Kohn is an architect based in London. “The contemporary economies of architectural production inevitably tend toward the shed. The shed is th...
Ep 25: Omer Arbel
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Omer Arbel is an architect and industrial designer based in Vancouver.“When I talk about the receding of ego in my work, that is the method - I enco...
Ep 24: Mary Duggan
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Duggan was a founding partner of Duggan Morris Architects, and established Mary Duggan Architects in 2017. “I think [architects] are obsessed w...
Ep 23: John 'Sinx' Sinclair
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John ‘Sinx’ Sinclair is a founding partner of the digital product design studio ustwo. “It’s the functionality of something rather than the ae...
Ep 22: Lütjens Padmanabhan
10 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lütjens Padmanabhan are an architecture practice based in Zurich. “How do you deal with the cheapening of the building, where the value and archite...
Ep 21: Tom Emerson
27 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Emerson is a founding director of 6a architects. “One of the positions that [my teaching] takes is to not distinguish between architecture - the...
Ep 20: Mill & Jones
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Anna Mill and Luke Jones are authors of the graphic novel Square Eyes. “The future city still has to get designed somehow, and augmented reality is ...
Ep 19: Barbara Penner
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Barbara Penner is Professor in the Architectural Humanities at the Bartlett School of Architecture. "[My allegiance] is to feminism and always has bee...
Ep 18: OK-RM
13 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
OK-RM are a design studio working in the fields of art, culture and commerce. “'Graphic designer' is something that comes up a lot in this conversat...
Ep 17: Irénée Scalbert
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Irénée Scalbert is an architecture critic and teacher based in London“What interests me is how architecture relates to experience […] this is th...
Ep 16: Stephen Bates
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Stephen Bates is an architect and founding partner of Sergison Bates architects.“I enjoy the idea [in architecture] that you don’t always see ever...
Ep 15: Andy Dixon
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Dixon is a painter based in Los Angeles.“I don’t want to come across like I’m making fun of the rich, or that I’m making fun of my patron...
Ep 14: Jack Self
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Self is an architect and writer. He is the founding director of the Real Foundation and editor in chief of the Real Review.“The subjectivity of...
Ep 13: Charles Holland
03 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Holland is an architect and former director of Fashion Architecture Taste. “However much narrative or literary ways into [architecture] that...
Ep 12: Steven J. Fowler
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Steven J. Fowler is a poet and artist based in London. “Poetry is a way of mediating our own confusion about the role language plays in the relation...
Ep 11: IF_DO
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
IF_DO are a London-based architecture practice, led by Al Scott, Sarah Castle and Thomas Bryans.“There’s a general shift at the moment away from a...
Ep 10: Andrew Waugh
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Waugh is a founding director of Waugh Thistleton Architects. “We have climate change […] this issue bigger than anything else that’s ever...
Ep 9: Maria Smith
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Smith is a founding director of the interdisciplinary architecture and engineering practice Interrobang. She is also a former founding director ...
Ep 8: Shajay Bhooshan
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shajay Bhooshan is co-founder of the computational design group at Zaha Hadid Architects. "We want to address the social but not without aesthetic lan...
Ep 7: Johanna Gibbons
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Johanna Gibbons is a landscape architect and founding partner of J & L Gibbons. “There really isn’t any wilderness left on the planet. [Wildness] ...
Ep 6: Fraser Muggeridge
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Fraser Muggeridge is a graphic designer based in London. “I’m always trying to create typefaces that are a little bit wrong, that are a little bit...
Ep 5: Philippe Malouin
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Philippe Malouin is an industrial designer based in London. “I graduated in 2008 at the height of the financial crisis, and I think it humbled a lot...
Ep 4: Pablo Bronstein
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pablo Bronstein is an artist based in London. "I’m from a generation that lives entirely within irony - so that everything is a quotation, everythin...
Ep 3: Charlotte Cooper
07 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Charlotte Cooper is a Psychotherapist, Cultural Worker and Fat Activist. “The therapy I do, and maybe therapy in general enables people to think abo...
Ep 2: David Grandorge
21 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Grandorge is an architectural photographer and educator. "Looking at the complexity of the world one can obviously become sad about it. One can ...
Ep 1: Adam Nathaniel Furman
07 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Nathaniel Furman is a London based designer. "For me once something is made it achieves this sort of holy status, which requires silence [...] By...