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Long-form interviews with architects, artists, designers and writers on the ideas shaping our world.
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Holly Pester (Cafés)
Holly Pester comes on the pod this week to talk about her new book Cafés — a long poem described as both an elegy for communal space and a surreal meditation on the state of public life. Pester is also a novelist and senior lecturer at the
Mary Duggan (May 2019)
Re-running this 2019 interview with Mary Duggan to celebrate her recent Stirling Prize win. Congrats Mary! Back again next week with a new episode. “I think [architects] are obsessed with justification, but sometimes in architecture you can
Richard Wentworth (October 2022)
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John Tuomey
John Tuomey comes on the pod to discuss Middle Quarter (https://www.lilliputpress.ie/products/middle-quarter?srsltid=AfmBOoqo4OGRj0_PDTT8lPr44K9MLtFmTkkwOtewm_r5zdjAKzVewOvW), the second volume of his memoir, recorded live at the Barbican o
Níall McLaughlin (Live at POST PRESS)
Níall McLaughlin is this year's recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal—awarded for more than three decades of work ranging from a seaside bandstand at Bexhill to the Stirling Prize-winning library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. To mark th
Michael Mack (Live at POST PRESS)
Michael Mack is the founder of London-based independent art and photography publishing house MACK (https://mackbooks.co.uk/?srsltid=AfmBOopL3IOkglDlXYYm1B50Ot-_iJR6wdsEqd_ZNxE81Ao9FyzlwPtI). This conversation was recorded live at POST PRESS
Jonathan Tuckey
Jonathan Tuckey founded his design practice in 2000 having previously worked for David Chipperfield Architects and Fletcher Priest Architects. He has long been one of the UK's leading advocates for remodelling and radically transforming old
Morgan Day (Part 2)
Morgan Day is a writer based in Tucson Arizona who works across professional architecture writing and literary fiction. Her debut novel,The Oldest Bitch Alive, is out this month from Akoya Publishing in the UK, and Astra House in the US. “W
Morgan Day (Part 1)
Morgan Day is a writer based in Tucson Arizona who works across professional architecture writing and literary fiction. Her debut novel,The Oldest Bitch Alive, is out this month from Akoya Publishing in the UK, and Astra House in the US. “W
Jaakko Pallasvuo (Avocado Ibuprofen) Part 2
Part 2 of our interview with the Finnish artist and writer Jaakko Pallasvuo, author most recently of Amber (https://rrose-editions.com/portfolio/avocado-ibuprofen-amber/) (Rrose Editions, 2026) and Mouthing the Words (https://www.khaospubli
Jaakko Pallasvuo (Avocado Ibuprofen)
Jaakko Pallasvuo is a Helsinki-based artist and writer, best known for his Instagram account Avocado Ibuprofen (https://www.instagram.com/avocado_ibuprofen/). In this episode he reflects on the role he sees for art and writing in a world in
Vincenzo Latronico
Recorded live in London at the Barbican Centre earlier this month, this episode marks the publication of Order Prevails in Berlin, a new essay by the Italian novelist Vincenzo Latronico that acts as an autobiographical key to his highly acc
How Three Leading Architecture Practices Are Using AI Today
Architects from Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects discuss how AI is entering the design studio, from generative design tools to new workflows shaping the future of practice. *This episode is supported by Chaos
Daryan Knoblauch
Daryan Knoblauch runs the eponymous architecture practice founded in 2024 in Berlin. His approach follows socio-cultural investigations of the present day, articulated in the form of cultural buildings, pavilions, and scenographies. The you
Remembering John Morgan
The graphic designer John Morgan passed away last September at the age of 52. His final book, Baskerville’s Teardrop Explodes (https://tenthousandangelspress.com/press/baskervilles-teardrop-explodes/), was published this week, and to mark t
Floris van der Poel's Favourite Things
Floris van der Poel comes on the pod this week to talk about the best work he’s discovered over the past year. Project list (in order of discussion): 1 The rounding of Cape Horn by Charlie Dalin. 2 Atelier Scheidegger Keller + Espazium, Are
Kenneth Frampton (Part 2)
In part 2 of Kenneth Frampton’s Scaffold interview, we focus on his own experiences - from his early desire to become a farmer, and the long hesitation that kept him from starting a family, and his regrets around leaving architectural pract
Kenneth Frampton
Architectural historian Kenneth Frampton remembers the exact moment of his political awakening. Arriving in the United States in 1965, flying over the blazing island of Manhattan and suddenly grasping the visibility of capitalist power ther
playbody
Today’s episode considers a part of the built environment that’s often overlooked in architectural discourse, yet has become one of the most vibrant sites of experimentation in recent years: the nightclub. Since the post-COVID resurgence of
OMA at 50
This special guest episode marks the launch of the podcast OMA at 50 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oma-at-50/id1850959768). Conceived and produced by architect Richard Hall, the series explores the Office for Metropolitan Architect
Truwant + Rodet +
Truwant+Rodet+ (https://truwantrodet.ch/) is a Basel-based architecture firm founded in 2015 by Charlotte Truwant and Dries Rodet, which operates across the fields of architecture, landscape urbanism, exhibition making, installations, furni
Why be an architect today?
Scaffold is back this week, with an episode that asks a simple question: why be an architect today? The Architecture Foundation is based inside the office of AHMM in Clerkenwell, which, back in July, hosted a summer school for teenagers jus
Paul Shepheard
Paul Shepheard is a British architect and writer known for his philosophical and multidisciplinary approach to architecture. Shepheard was a student at the Architectural Association in the 1960’s, and has worked both in practice, for the li
Fredi Fischli (Kontextur Podcast Festival)
Recorded live from the Kontextur (https://kontextur.info/) Podcast Festival at Khaus in Basel, this episode features a conversation with the curator Fredi Fischli. Fredi Fischli, along with Niels Olsen, is co-curator and co-director of exhi
Crit: Venice Biennale with Emily Conklin, Fabrizio Gallanti & Phin Harper
A month after the opening of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, we've invited three critics to come on the show to help make sense of what was arguably one of the most content overloaded, and curitorially ambiguous biennales in recen
Patrick McGraw (Heavy Traffic Magazine)
Patrick McGraw is the editor and publisher of Heavy Traffic magazine. Based in NYC, designed by Richard Turley and featuring contributions as varied as Sheila Heti, Keller Easterling and Dean Kissick, Heavy Traffic understands and reflects
Jacques Herzog & Nicholas Serota with Ellis Woodman
To mark the 25th Anniversary of the Tate Modern this week, the Architecture Foundation's Director Ellis Woodman speaks with two key figures behind the museum's conception: Nicholas Serota and Jacques Herzog. Scaffold is an Architecture Foun
Carlo Ratti
Carlo Ratti is is an Italian architect, engineer and educator, and the curator of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. As the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale opens its doors, we speak with this year’s curator, Carlo Ratti—architect, eng
Michael Meredith
Michael Meredith is a co-founder with Hilary Sample of MOS, an architecture practice based in New York. MOS is an acronym derived from Meredith and Sample, with the "O" serving as an abstract, connective element. The name, much like the pra
Tacita Dean
This episode was originally aired in Novemebr 2022. "The direction in which I’m going is never fixed. Because I don’t know where I’m going, I’m very able to change direction. . . only at the very end of the process does all this nascent inf
