Superurbanism
Episodes
S3 EP06 — Nordic Office of Architecture
27 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Oslo-based Nordic Office of Architecture led the redesign of Norway’s government district following the 2011 attacks, shaping into what they believe...
S3 EP05 — Reinier de Graaf
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
To create a coalition of architects as workers, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf has written a manifesto, Architecture Against Architecture. Are you ready...
S3 EP04 — Mary Duggan
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Tim talks to one of London’s most thoughtful practitioner’s Mary Duggan about her last project; a beautiful landscaped housing project amidst park...
S3 EP02 — Rolf Fehlbaum
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Rolf Fehlbaum is Chairman Emeritus of Vitra; and the client behind the architectural flourishing of the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein. Tim asks him ab...
S3 EP02 — Shiv Malik
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shiv Malik was formerly an investigative journalist with the Guardian. He’s also co-author with Ed Howker of the book Jilted Generation: How Britain...
S3 EP01 — Sam Jacob
05 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Jacob, dean of Die Angewandte in Vienna, has a great show on at the Hypha gallery in No. 1 Poultry, London. Tim spoke to him about the complex way...
Review of the Year — 2025
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In London a stellar cast joined Tim Abrahams and regular News Review contributor Vicky Richardson for some drinks and nibbles to reflect on the archit...
S2 EP34 — Peter Murray
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Murray is a London institution himself, although he is also the founder of several. He spoke to Tim about his ongoing investigations into how Ci...
S2 EP33 — Pete Collard
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pete Collard is exhibitions curator at the RIBA; and the brains behind a new show held at RIBA North in Liverpool called Home Ground, the Architecture...
S2 EP32 — David Adjaye
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With controversy lingering over his personal conduct, three major new museums designed by David Adjaye open this month. Tim Abrahams goes beyond the s...
News Review — October 2025
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Superurbanism News Review is back again! Tim sits down with our good friend Vicky Richardson, former Architecture Curator at the Royal Academy to ...
S2 EP 30 — Olafur Eliasson
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 21st century, Olafur Eliasson helped define a new era of public art with works that took on nature for scale. Tim Abrahams met him at the...
S2 EP 29 — Asif Khan
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim heads out to Almaty in Kazakhstan to talk to Asif Khan about his work on the Tselinny; an incredibly painstaking transformation of a 1964 Soviet c...
S2 EP28 — Andy Groarke (part 2)
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second half of a two part discussion with Andy Groarke of the London practice Carmody Groarke in which he and Tim discuss more recent buil...
S2 EP27 — Ab Rogers
19 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim spoke to Ab Rogers about the exhibition he has curated, dedicated to his father Richard, at Sir John Soane’s Museum. They also talk about Ab's o...
S2 EP26 — Andy Groarke
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first half of a two part discussion with Andy Groarke of the London practice Carmody Groarke. Talking to Tim, he explores the origins of t...
S2 EP25 — Richard J Williams
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard J Williams’s latest book The Expressway World is about spaces built for cars, which humans live alongside. He and Superurbanism host Tim Abr...
S2 EP24 — Charles Saumarez Smith
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Saumarez Smith is a distinguished British cultural historian and curator known for his leadership in major art institutions including the Nati...
S2 EP23 — Pablo Bronstein
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim talks to Pablo Bronstein, a London‑based artist born in Argentina, known primarily for his beautiful, clever drawings which have been collecte...
S2 EP22 — Farshid Moussavi
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Farshid Moussavi is the co-ordinator of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy this year, the first architect to perform the task since Eva Jiřič...
S2 EP21 — Rem Koolhaas
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rem Koolhaas, principal of OMA, won the Pritzker Prize in 2000. His work Delirious New York is one of the best books written about architecture and ci...
s2 EP20 — Marina Tabassum
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim talks bricks, nation building and temporary architecture with Marina Tabassum, the architect of this year’s Serpentine Pavilion. Born in Dhaka, ...
S2 EP19 — Tiffany Jenkins
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tiffany Jenkins is author of Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life, published by Picador. “Always interesting, always well writ...
News Review — May 2025
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Superurbanism News Review is back from the Venice Architecture Biennale. The super soaraway architecture podcast hears from curator Carlo Ratti on...
S2 EP17 — Owen Hopkins
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Owen Hopkins is a British architectural historian and curator who is now the Director of the Farrell Centre in Newcastle. He is also one of four curat...
S2 EP16 — Annabelle Selldorf
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Annabelle Selldorf is a German-born architect based in New York City known for her refined, modernist aesthetic. She recently completed the renovation...
S2 EP15 — Tom Emerson
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Emerson founded 6a architects with Stephanie Macdonald in 2001, completing the MK Gallery in 2019 and the South London Gallery in 2021. He has jus...
S2 EP14 — Samantha Hardingham
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim talks to Samantha Hardingham about Cedric Price, subject of an exhibition touring UK architectural schools currently. Samantha, former director of...
S2 EP13 — Jonathan Glancey
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Glancey, former architecture editor at The Guardian and, more recently, author and inhabitant of Venice, has just published the book Operatio...
S2 EP12 — Patrik Schumacher
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent paper, Patrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, declared the End of Architecture, terminated he says by petty politicking. T...
News Review — February 2025
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the Superurbanism News Review: a compendium and critique of the big stories that are dominating architecture and the associated professions...
S2 EP10 — Nicolas Fayad
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nicolas Fayad founded East architecture studio with Charles Kettaneh in 2015. Based in Lebanon and now the United Arab Emirates, the practice won the ...
S2 EP09 — Stefano Boeri
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim talks to the architect and don of the Milan design world Stefano Boeri who is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Bosco Verticale; a pioneerin...
S2 EP08 — Sir Peter Cook
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Peter Cook is a Royal Academician and RIBA Gold Medal holder. And yet his fame rests on his work with avant garde architecture collective Archigra...
S2 EP07 — Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton have built some of the most striking modern buildings in Europe. On the occasion of an exhibition of their work ...
S2 EP06 — James Capper
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim talks to James Capper, an artist and speculative engineer who makes boats that walk and robots that paint: machines that ask us what machines are ...
S2 EP05 — Hanif Kara
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do you design a roller coaster? What was it like on the North Sea oil rigs in the 1980s? What did you learn in the steel yards? Hanif Kara, recipi...
S2 EP04 — Selina Anttinen
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim talks to Selina Anttinen, founding partner of Anttinen Oiva Architects with her husband Vesa Oiva. So successful have the practice been in their n...
S2 EP03 — Kenneth Frampton
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few architecture critics have had the impact of Kenneth Frampton. His Modern Architecture: a Critical History is a masterpiece; his essay on Critical ...
S2 EP02 — Paul Robbrecht
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Robbrecht founded Robbrecht en Daem with his wife Hilde Daem in 1975. Their son Johannes joined in 2002. This family-led practice is one of the m...
S2 EP01 — Kengo Kuma
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kengo Kuma is a mercurial architect, who works with natural forms and historical structures with an avant-garde sensibility. Tim talks to the usually ...
S1 EP19 — Edwin Heathcote
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate the London Festival of Architecture’s 20th anniversary Tim met Edwin Heathcote, the Financial Times architecture critic, in a small pod...
S1 EP18 — Job Floris
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Job Floris was an editor of the pioneering, always interesting OASE Journal for Architecture from 2008 until 2018. He is also an architect: one half o...
S1 EP17 — Bijoy Jain
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bijoy Jain lives in Mumbai; the city of his birth. Tim talked to him about his world famous practice Studio Mumbai which sits between the world of art...
S1 EP16 — Simon Henley
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Henley is one of London architecture’s unsung heroes. His practice Henley Halebrown wrings great buildings from unlikely sites across the city...
S1 EP15 — Farshid Moussavi
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Farshid Moussavi RA OBE is an architect and – pay attention to the exact phrasing – Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard GSD. Born in ...
S1 EP14 — Judit Carrera
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Judit Carrera is a political scientist by education but is now director of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). As part of her re...
S1 EP13 — William Mann (part 2)
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second half of a conversation between host Tim Abrahams and William Mann the first half of which was broadcast earlier in this series...
S1 EP12 — Rowan Moore
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rowan Moore is one of the UKs most eloquent and respected architecture critics. His third book Property: The Myth That Built The World raises key issu...
S1 EP11 — Ken Shuttleworth
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Tim Abrahams meets Ken Shuttleworth. Known as Ken the Pen in his university days, he is a leading architect with an exemplary talent for dra...
S1 EP10 — Niall Hobhouse
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For the last ten years, collector and curator Niall Hobhouse has run the charity Drawing Matter from a converted farm in Somerset. This year he has ta...
S1 EP09 — Amin Taha
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amin Taha founded his practice, now called Groupwork, in London in 2003. Despite the controversy around his signature project 15 Clerkenwell Close, bu...
S1 EP08 — Laure Mériaud and Cécilia Gross
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Laure Mériaud and Cécilia Gross came together when colleagues recommended that their practices Atelier 2/3/4 and VenhoevenCS bid to design the one n...
S1 EP07 — Shane De Blacam
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shane De Blacam has just received the Royal Academy Prize, for his work with the late John Meagher, who he entered into practice in 1976. His greatest...
S1 EP06 — William Mann
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Together with his colleagues Christopher Watson and Stephen Witherford, William Mann is a partner at one of the most consistently brilliant architectu...
S1 EP05 — Will Wiles
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will Wiles is a brilliant author of several novels and a collection of short stories called The Anechoic Chamber that will be published in August 2024...
S1 EP04 — Eleanor Fawcett
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Machine Books recently published Play the Game by Michael Owens and Ralph Ward: a book superbly woven together from interviews of the people who broug...
S1 EP03 — Peter Barber
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Man of the moment Peter Barber takes us around his office in Kings Cross, London. Perhaps London's most famous builder of social housing, Barber expla...
S1 EP02 — Dieter Roelstraete
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody Talks About the Weather and so do we. Still in Venice we pop into the Prada Foundation and have a tour of their summer exhibition at Ca'Corn...
S1 EP01 — Roberto Cicutto, Lesley Lokko, Francis Kéré
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our opening episode, we visit the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 and consider how a series of crises – Covid, Black Lives Matter and global wa...