
ArchitectureTalk
Architecture & Design
Designed around an engaging conversation, Architecture Talk explores issues in contemporary architecture and architectural thinking. It is hosted by Vikram Prakash, Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Location:
United States
Description:
Designed around an engaging conversation, Architecture Talk explores issues in contemporary architecture and architectural thinking. It is hosted by Vikram Prakash, Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Language:
English
Contact:
2068506880
Website:
http://www.architecturetalk.org/
Episodes
142. Phantom Hands with Deepak Srinath
5/25/2023
This week, we are joined by the founder and CEO of Phantom Hands Deepak Srinath. Phantom Hands creates chairs and other various furniture pieces, and also brings attention to Indian craft worldwide.
Duration:01:10:46
141. The Faada-Adda Conversations with Mariam Issoufou Kamara (Part III): Future Faada Adda with AbdouMaliq Simone
4/19/2023
This week, we are joined again with Mariam Issoufou Kamara and AbdouMaliq Simone, where we talk about the “Faada” and “Adda” as hangout spaces, and go in depth of what future Faada and Adda spaces would look like with urban inhabitation.
Duration:00:55:48
140. Biking Through American Freedom with Benedikt Hartl
3/31/2023
This week, we are joined again with Benedikt Hartl. Hartl and his girlfriend recently biked from Seattle to La Jolla, and shares his experience as a European traveling through the West Coast as well as the architectural impacts he observed.
Duration:00:48:47
139. Planetary and the Climate Crisis with James Graham
3/9/2023
This week, we are joined by James Graham who is currently an assistant professor at CCA, and used to be faculty at Columbia University and handled publications there. His work heavily revolves around the planetary and climate crisis.
Duration:00:57:30
138. Fronts: Military Urbanism and the Developing World with Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller
2/22/2023
This week, we are joined by Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, who are both principals at AGENCY. Kripa and Mueller recently published their book Fronts: Military Urbanism and the Developing World, which starts our conversation and dives into immigration, migration, and questions the climate change emergency.
Duration:01:00:04
137. Bawa's Garden with Clara Kraft Isono
2/7/2023
This week, we are joined by Clara Kraft Isono, who directed the architecture film Bawa's Garden. Isono is an architect, film maker, and educator in the UK and is currently focused on film making. In this discussion, Isono talks about what film making is, as well as what an architecture film is and what it should be.
Duration:00:59:19
136. Architecture after Architecture with Jeremy Till
1/18/2023
This week, we are joined by Professor Jeremy Till, who talks about his work with the research collective MOULD and their project Architecture after Architecture which interrogates the constitutive entanglement between architecture and modernism. With modernism responsible for the climate emergency, we will have to re-think what architecture is in fundamental terms, and Till discusses architecture as the solution.
Duration:01:00:19
135. The Faada-Adda Conversations with Mariam Issoufou Kamara (Part II): Future Hériter
1/11/2023
This week we are once again joined by Mariam Issoufou Kamara for the Faada-Adda Conversations Part II: Future Hériter. In this conversation, Kamara talks about breaking free from the boundaries of the cardinal directions and getting into new ways of being.
Duration:00:55:16
134. Architecture and Design Film Festival with Kyle Bergman
12/16/2022
This week we are joined by Kyle Bergman, who is the CEO of the Architecture and Design Film Festival. Bergman shares with us his thoughts about the connections between film, architecture, and design, and more.
Duration:00:46:54
133. Arch Talk on Architecture Talk with Junichi Satoh
11/30/2022
This week we are joined by Junichi Satoh, who is current faculty in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. Junichi shares with us how he has incorporated architectural thinking in diverse and constructive ways throughout his life, and how it has gotten him to where he is today.
Duration:00:58:21
132. Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age with Mark Jarzombek
11/23/2022
This week, we are joined again by Mark Jarzombek to discuss the data society on contemporary architecture, as well as his book Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age.
Duration:00:48:25
131. Pre-crastinating Art with Aaron Bourget
11/9/2022
This week, we had the opportunity to talk to Aaron Bourget who is a film maker of hundreds of short films. Bourget's process of creativity? Pre-crastination, use whatever you have at hand, and push whatever you have into the world week by week.
Duration:00:53:36
130. The Faada-Adda Conversations with Mariam Issoufou Kamara (Part I)
11/2/2022
This week, Nigerien architect Mariam Issoufou Kamara joins us in a stimulating discussion about reimagining architecture and epistemologies that come from West Africa. Kamara also touches on how African, South Asian, and other non-European can help us think out of modernity.
Duration:01:07:07
129. Comparing Connections in the Ethosphere with Ambrose Gillick (Part II)
10/5/2022
This week, we are joined once again with Ambrose Gillick for Part II of Comparting Connections in the Ethosphere. In this episode, Gillick shares his thoughts on the connections of his two interests in sacred architecture and the modalities and politics of design and the city influence that connects to architecture trends.
Duration:00:46:16
128. Comparing Connections in the Ethosphere with Ambrose Gillick (Part I)
9/28/2022
Kicking off our new season of ArchitectureTalk, we engage in a conversation with Ambrose Gillick. Gillick shares his interest and findings in participatory and community-led architecture through a collaborative project with self-organising women's- co-op in Dakar, Senegal, and theory of sacred space in medieval church architecture.
Duration:01:06:56
127. The Architecture of Art with Hiroshi Okamoto
7/21/2022
We're back with a conversation with Principal Architect at OLI Architecture, Hiroshi Okamoto. In this conversation we discuss his time working with I.M. Pei, the design of the Mu Xin Art Museum dedicated to the celebrated Chinese painter, scholar, poet and writer, and designing spaces for the work of American sculpture artist Richard Serra.
Duration:00:52:28
126. Moving Beyond the Post-Colonial and the Mythological West with Martino Stierli
6/16/2022
This week, we talk with Martino Stierli, MOMA’s Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, about MOMA’s current exhibition entitled The Project of Independence: Architectures of Decolonization in South Asia, 1947–1985.
Duration:00:42:36
125. Architecture in the Symbolic Realm: Troubling the Remaking of New Delhi's Central Vista with Aneesha Dharwadker
6/3/2022
This week, we talk with Aneesha Dharwadker, assistant professor in architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of the recently published article Dystopia’s Ghost. In this episode, we revisit the remaking of New Delhi’s Central Vista project, its design, politics, and history.
Duration:00:59:00
124. Architecture and the Photographic Eye with Randhir Singh
5/11/2022
This week, we talk with Randhir Singh about his life as an architectural photographer, which he pursues, not just as an art, but as a way of architectural thinking itself. From the art and craft of the making of a photograph, to the final presentation in MOMA, Randhir Singh walks us through his methods and philosophy on the art of architectural photography.
Duration:00:36:13
123. A Fieldguide to Sub-Saharan African Architecture with Adil Dalbai and Livingstone Mukasa
3/24/2022
How does the idea of a “Nation” come through in architectural language? Is there such a thing as a Nigerian architecture, for example? Are there national identifications visible in architectural makeup? On the other hand, how does architecture transcend borders? What is the status of Modernism in architecture in these various places? This week, we dive into these larger questions as we dissect the recently published series Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Philipp Meuser, Adil Dalbai, and Livingstone Mukasa.
Duration:01:01:21