What Buildings Do: An architecture podcast.
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
43. John Tuomey & Adrian Duncan | Books Downstairs
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This special episode is a live recording made at IAF House, Dublin on June 10th, 2024.As part of conversation series, Books Donwstairs, on books and a...
42. Aisling Rusk & Anthony Engi Meacock | Reimaginging Elderhood 2
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Emmett Scanlon speaks to Aisling Rusk (Studio Idir, Belfast) and Anthony Engi Meacock (Assemble, London) on their recent collaboration...
41. Reimagining Elderhood 1 | Ailbhe Cunningham + Inka Drohn
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first of three episodes made in response to a project called Reimagining `Elderhood. Initiated by a group called SOA, or Self-Organised Ar...
40. Luke McManus | North Circular
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Emmett Scanlon talks to Luke McManus, a documentary film maker based in Dublin. Luke's debut feature documentary as a director,...
39. Valerie Mulvin | Group 91
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk to Valerie Mulvin. The podcast is part of the Temple Bar 30 Series, an ongoing recording project with members of Group 91. Bac...
38. Adam Nathaniel Furman
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Emmett Scanlon talks to Adam Nathaniel Furman. Adam is a British artist and designer of Argentine and Japanese heritage based in Londo...
BONUS: Review: I see earth, an exhibition by Tom dePaor
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a bonus episode of the podcast. It is a review of and a reflection on i see Earth, building and ground 1991-2021 an exhibition by Tom de Paor....
37. Ellen Rowley
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emmett Scanlon talks to Ellen Rowley, architectural and cultural historian. The podcast covers Ellen's discovery of buildings and arc...
36. Story, Building is here.
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this short episode Emmett Scanlon describes the origins and purpose of the new platform Story, Building. The podcast, What Buildings Do, is now par...
35. Derek Tynan | GROUP 91
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a the second in a series of conversations about Temple Bar with the architects of Group 91, initiated on the 30th anniversary of that project....
34. BOOK REVIEW | The Dublin Architecture Guide+The Dignity of Everyday Life
04 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss two new books on architecture, buildings and Ireland's capital city, Dublin. The books are The Dublin Architecture Guide 19...
33. Part W Collective | Zoë Berman
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode host Emmett Scanlon speaks to Zoë Berman of Studio Berman. Zoë is an architect and a university lecturer. She has lectured on design...
32. Soil Lab
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the podcast Emmett Scanlon talks to James Albert Martin and Eibhlín Ní Chathasaigh, who together with Anne Dorthe Vester and Maria Bruun are Soil...
31. Ryan W. Kennihan
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021 Ryan Kennihan was Highly Commended for a house in north Dublin, in the 'New Into Old' awards, by the Architectural Review. This house is anoth...
30. FAF: Future Architects Front | Charlie Edmonds
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The last years have seen a growing consideration of the terms and conditions of employment for architects. In this episode Emmett Scanlon speaks to Ch...
29. BRAUN | Emma Geoghegan
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emmett Scanlon talks to Emma Geoghegan about the currently vacant BRAUN factory building in Carlow, Ireland. Carlow is a town with a ...
28. RetroFirst Campaign | Will Hurst
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emmett Scanlon talks to Will Hurst, the Managing Editor of The Architects’ Journal, based in London. Will has been leading the...
27. Annex | ENTANGLEMENT | Venice Biennale 2021
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The 17th Venice Architecture Biennale open-end at the end of May, a year later than intended, due to Covid restrictions and cancellations. This year t...
26. Self Organised Architecture | SOA | HOUSING
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Emmett Scanlon talks to Padraig Flynn and Tom O Donnell of SOA (Self Organised Housing). In the podcast the pair outline the origins o...
25. NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS | Orla Murphy
15 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020 EU President Ursula von der Leyen launched the New European Bauhaus, an initiative intending to address climate by and through design. In this...
24. UP NORTH | A Conversation on architecture in Northern Ireland
05 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Northern Ireland is 100 years old on May 3rd 2021. In this podcast Emmett Scanlon speaks to four people working in and through architecture in Norther...
BONUS: The Crawford Gallery
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode of the podcast, Emmett Scanlon laments the continued closure of rooms for art. He recalls from memory, time spent in the Crawfor...
23. Nathalie Weadick | DESIRE
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode host Emmett Scanlon meets Nathalie Weadick. Nathalie is the director of the Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF). The IAF is an indepen...
BONUS: Home of the Year
10 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode of the podcast Emmett Scanlon offers some thoughts on the popular television show Home of the Year. Far from being passive enter...
22. Derek Poppinga | DEVELOPMENT
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast host Emmett Scanlon talks to property developer Derek Poppinga of Mm Capital. In 2015 Mm Capital purchased the Phibsborough Shopping C...
21. Ben Channon | HEALTH
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Emmett Scanlon talks to Ben Channon about mental health in architecture in education, practice and the wider construction industry. Th...
20. Eoin Ó Broin | ARCHITECTURE
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Emmett Scanlon talks to Eoin Ó Broin about architecture, planning, participation and the public value of architecture. And a little a...
19. EMERGING POSITIONS | Noreile Breen | Tom O Brien | Jennifer O Donnell | Andrew O Murchu
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, recorded on zoom from Dublin, Kerry, Berlin and Limerick, Emmett Scanlon speaks to Noreille Breen, Tom O Brien, Jennifer O Donnell an...
18. End of Year Show 4 | CITIES | Philip Lawton
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the fourth and final episode of the End of Year Show. The End of Year Show is a look back on some of the things that happened and were discuss...
17. Piet Mondrian | Rooms for Manoeuvre | The artist and his studio.
30 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special edition of the podcast commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland on the occasion of their Mondrian exhibition. In the podcast ...
16. End of Year Show 3 | CULTURE | Michael Hayes
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is the End Of the Year Show 2020, Part 3, a look back at some key moments in architecture and design and the world in which they operate in Ireland...
15. End of Year Show 2 | TOWNS | Miriam Delaney
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is the End Of the Year Show 2020, Part 2, a look back at some key moments in architecture and design and the world in which they operate in Ireland...
14. End of Year Show 1 | HOUSING | Lorcan Sirr
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is the End Of the Year Show 2020, a look back at some key moments in architecture and design and the world in which they operate in Ireland in 2020...
13. Neasa Hourigan | PUBLIC GOOD
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week host Emmett Scanlon talks to Neasa Hourigan. Neasa is the Green Party TD for Dublin Central. Neasa is Green Party Finance & Health...
12. Conor Sreenan | PUBLIC GOOD
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Emmett Scanlon talks to Conor Sreenan. Conor is the Director of Strategy & Design at Grangegorman Development Agency. Conor's work...
11. Sheila O' Donnell | HOUSES
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode host Emmett Scanlon talks to Sheila O Donnell, one of Ireland’s most celebrated architects. With John Tuomey, Sheila has been runnin...
10. Sean Finegan | ROOMS
04 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode host Emmett Scanlon talk to Sean Finegan, a comedian who is one part of the very successful and very funny comedy trio Foil Arms and H...
9. Hari Phillips | HOUSING
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Emmett Scanlon talks to Hari Phillips in London. Hari tells his side of the story about one housing project he and his architecture pr...
8. Jeanette Lowe | HOUSING
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emmett Scanlon talks to Jeanette Lowe. Jeanette is a photographer based in Dublin. The conversation is about architecture, housing an...
7. Shane O' Toole | GROUP 91
28 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode host Emmett Scanlon, talks to architecture critic Shane O' Toole. Back in the 1980s a group of young and eager architects began workin...
BONUS: What's It All About Elphie?
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a bonus edition of the podcast What Do Buildings Do All Day? In this second bonus episode you will hear a text written by host Emmett Scanlon ...
6. COSMOFORM | Eamonn Hall + Cormac Murray
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Emmett Scanlon talks to Eamonn Hall and Cormac Murray about their new publication COSMOFORM. This is a 'zine on the Met Eireann Build...
BONUS: Building Palestine
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is a bonus edition of the podcast What Do Buildings Do All Day? In this first bonus episode you will hear a text by Conor Sreenan, read by actor ...
5. Adrian Duncan
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian Duncan is an artist and award-winning writer based in Ireland and Berlin. In this podcast, a recorded conversation between Dublin and Berlin, A...
4. Valerie Mulvin + Ruth O' Herlihy | McCullough Mulvin Architects
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, host Emmett Scanlon speaks to Valerie Mulvin and Ruth O Herlihy of McCullough Mulvin Architects based in Dublin, Ireland. The pair, t...
3. Rosie Lynch | Callan Workhouse Union | COLLABORATION
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this concluding episode of a three part podcast introduction on collaboration in architecture, design and space making, host Emmett Scanlon talks t...
2. Jeffrey Bolhuis + Laurence Lord | AP+E | COLLABORATION
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laurence Lord and Jeffrey Bolhuis together run AP+E, (Architecture, Practice and Experimentation), an architecture office based in Ireland and The Net...
1. Molly O Cathain | COLLABORATION
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O Cathain is a Swedish-Irish Set and Costume designer based in London and a co-founder of MALAPROP Theatre. In this episode, recorded in lockdow...
TRAILER - What Do Buildings Do All Day?
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Buildings are everywhere and right now we have never been more aware of the built world around us. But what are the stories of our buildings – who d...