
Future of the American City
Arts & Culture Podcasts
An initiative of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
An initiative of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Twitter:
@GSDOffice
Language:
English
Website:
http://fotac.gsd.harvard.edu
Episodes
Elisa Iturbe on Carbon Form
3/6/2025
Elisa Iturbe is an architectural designer, writer, and educator. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her research on “carbon form,” an urban and architectural paradigm unique to the carbon age.
Duration:00:50:58
Joel Sanders on Inclusive Design
2/6/2025
Joel Sanders is an architect and educator and the founder of JSA/MIXdesign. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work in inclusive design.
Duration:00:37:14
Landscapes of Retreat
12/10/2023
Rosetta Elkin is a landscape architect and author. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book Landscapes of Retreat. Future of the American City is a project of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is produced by Charlie Gaillard, Olani Ewunnet, Aziz Barbar, Jeffrey S. Nesbit, and Mercedes … Continued
Duration:00:41:34
The Architecture of Disability
11/17/2023
Designer, historian, and theorist David Gissen joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book The Architecture of Disability. Future of the American City is a project of the Office for Urbanization at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is produced by Charlie Gaillard, Olani Ewunnet, Aziz Barbar, Jeffrey S. Nesbit, and Mercedes Peralta.
Duration:00:50:53
Manual of Biogenic House Sections
10/27/2023
Architects Paul Lewis and Marc Tsurumaki, principals of the New York-based practice LTL Architects, join Charles Waldheim to discuss their recent book Manual of Biogenic House Sections.
Duration:00:51:45
New York Review of Architecture
10/6/2023
Author and publisher Nicolas Kemper and architectural historian and critic Phillip Denny join Charles Waldheim to discuss the publication New York Review of Architecture.
Duration:00:44:20
Jeff Hou
5/11/2023
Jeff Hou is an author, advocate, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his research on urban resistance and popular protest movements in the public realm.
Duration:00:46:37
Shannon Mattern
4/27/2023
Shannon Mattern is a media theorist and design anthropologist. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her new book A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences.
Duration:00:53:41
Ed Wall
4/13/2023
Ed Wall is a landscape architect and urbanist. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Contesting Public Spaces: Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London.
Duration:00:51:50
Jennifer Bonner and Hanif Kara
3/30/2023
Architect Jennifer Bonner and structural engineer Hanif Kara join Charles Waldheim to discuss their new book Blank: Speculations on CLT.
Duration:00:48:44
Peggy Deamer and Quilian Riano
3/16/2023
Architects Peggy Deamer and Quilian Riano join Charles Waldheim to discuss their advocacy for architecture as a form of labor and their various roles in The Architecture Lobby.
Duration:00:54:38
Abby Spinak
3/2/2023
Abby Spinak is an environmental historian and planning scholar whose work focuses on energy histories and the politics of infrastructure. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her research on rural electric cooperatives in the United States.
Duration:00:49:38
Sam Stein
2/16/2023
Sam Stein is a geographer and housing policy analyst. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State.
Duration:00:49:47
Laurie Olin
2/2/2023
Laurie Olin is a landscape architect, author, and founding partner of the landscape architecture and urban design firm OLIN. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Essays on Landscape.
Duration:00:46:14
Marshall Brown
5/19/2022
Marshall Brown is an architect and urbanist and the principal of Marshall Brown Projects. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his new book Recurrent Visions.
Duration:00:47:43
Signe Nielsen
5/5/2022
Signe Nielsen is a landscape architect and principal of MNLA. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss Little Island, her role on the New York City Public Design Commission, and her career on the New York waterfront.
Duration:00:46:25
Eric Rodenbeck
4/21/2022
Eric Rodenbeck is the founder and Creative Director of Stamen, a data visualization and cartography studio based in the Bay Area. Eric joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his work with the Getty Research Institute and their acquisition of Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles archive.
Duration:00:39:24
Sara Zewde
4/7/2022
Sara Zewde is a landscape architect and founding principal of Studio Zewde, a landscape, urban design, and public art practice based in New York City. She joins Charles Waldheim to discuss her recent work as well as her research following Frederick Law Olmsted’s reporting in the antebellum South.
Duration:00:41:06
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi
3/24/2022
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi are principals and founders of Weiss / Manfredi Architecture / Landscape / Urbanism. They join Charles Waldheim to discuss their practice and their work on the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles.
Duration:00:42:19
David Gissen
3/10/2022
David Gissen is a designer, author, and educator. He joins Charles Waldheim to discuss his interest in architecture and the bodies it imagines.
Duration:00:34:34