Episodes
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Architecture Masters – An Archive
Listen in Apple Podcasts In 2017 I setup the Architecture Masters podcast, which later became the podcast for the London Festival of Architecture. The podcast ran for over three years. There were relatively few architecture podcasts around at the time. But despite the name, it was never really...
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Frank Anatole, Principal Architect, Network Rail – Episode 59
For this episode of Architecture Masters we’re joined by Frank Anatole, Principal Architect at Network Rail. Network Rail oversees a vast network of built environment infrastructure across the UK including over 2,500 stations, 30,000 bridges and tunnels, as well as countless maintenance depots,...
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Dale Sinclair, Director of Innovation, Aecom – Episode 58
On the programme today we’re joined by Dale Sinclair, Director of Innovation for the global infrastructure consultancy Aecom. Over the years much of Dale’s work has focused on the future of the architecture profession, and much of our conversation today involves future gazing. Dale grew up in...
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Sheng-Yuan Huang – Episode 57
On the programme this week we’re joined by Sheng-Yuan Huang founder of Fieldoffice Architects. Sheng-Yuan was born in Taipai and initially studied architecture at Tunghai University in Taichung – Taiwan’s second city – where he graduated in 1986. Taiwan – officially the Republic of China – was...
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Sofie De Caigny, Director, Flanders Architecture Institute – Episode 56
On the programme this week we’re joined by Sofie De Caigny, Director of VAi, the Flanders Architecture Institute. The VAi is based in Antwerp – across two buildings – with gallery space and public programmes taking place in the International Arts Campus deSingel. As well as their extensive public...
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Giovanna Borasi, Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture – Episode 55
For the eleventh episode of Architecture Masters at Home, we’re joined by Giovanna Borasi, Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Giovanna joined the CCA in 2005 as the Curator for Contemporary Architecture, going on to become Chief Curator in 2014 and then Director of the...
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Roger Hawkins, Co-Founder, Hawkins\Brown – Episode 54
On this week’s Architecture Masters at Home we’re joined by Roger Hawkins, co-founder of Hawkins\Brown. Russel Brown and Roger Hawkins founded the firm in 1988 after having worked together at Rock Townsend in the 1980s. The two partners started the firm with an initial determination, as they saw...
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Ellie Stathaki, Architecture Editor, Wallpaper* Magazine – Episode 53
For the ninth episode of the LFA’s Architecture Masters at Home, we’re joined by Ellie Stathaki, Architecture Editor at Wallpaper* Magazine. Wallpaper* Magazine was founded in 1996 and quickly became one of the world’s most influential international lifestyle titles. Wallpaper* – with tagline…
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Laura King, Director, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates – Episode 52
For the eighth episode of Architecture Masters at Home, we’re joined by Laura King, Director at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in London. Over the last few weeks many of us have been getting used to the new normal of remote working. But for many global architecture firms like KPF, working on...
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Yinka Illori – Episode 51
For our seventh episode of Architecture Masters at Home we’re joined by the artist-designer Yinka Ilori – described by The Financial Times as one of the world’s most in demand designers. Born in London, much of his work references his West African heritage. Yinka established his studio in 2017…
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Maria Louise Long – Episode 50
For the sixth episode of Architecture Masters at Home, we’re joined by Maria Louise Long, Senior Associate at Chris Dyson Architects. Maria Louise Long. Image courtesy of the practice. Maria Louise grew up in South West Ireland and went on to study architecture at the Scott Sutherland School of...
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Nick McKeogh & Peter Murray – Architecture Masters at Home – Episode 49
For the fifth episode of Architecture Masters at Home, we’re joined by Peter Murray and Nick McKeogh. Like many organisations trying to adapt to these challenging and quickly changing circumstances, at the LFA we’ve naturally been re-examining our core purpose and thinking about how we can…
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Will Hurst, Managing Editor, Architects’ Journal (Architecture Masters at Home) – Episode 48
In Episode 4 of Architecture Masters at Home we’re joined by the Managing Editor of the Architects’ Journal, Will Hurst. Founded in 1895, the AJ remains the journal of record for the architecture profession in the UK. We talk about the role of a Managing Editor, about producing an entire issue…
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Architecture Masters at Home – Steven Harding – Episode 47
For the third episode of Architecture Masters at Home we’re joined by Steven Harding, founder of Goodfellow Communications. Goodfellow run the press and PR for the LFA, helping the festival and our partners reach new audiences, both during the festival and throughout the year. Tamsie and Owen…
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Architecture Masters at Home 2 – Episode 46
Welcome to the second episode of our new format podcast – Architecture Masters at Home. In this episode LFA Director Tamsie Thomson and LFA Deputy Director Owen Wainhouse discuss this year’s festival theme of ‘power’ and how it relates to architecture – particularly in our new world of working…
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Intro Architecture Masters at Home – Episode 45
From our homes to yours. Welcome to our new format festival podcast – ‘Architecture Masters at Home’. Whilst we all get accustomed to working from home, we wanted to bring you some insight from the festival and our key partners as we look at how the wider architecture sector adapts to working in...
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Paul Priestman, Co-Founder, PriestmanGoode – Episode 44
On the programme this week is the designer Paul Priestman. Paul started his business designing the packaging for Boots’ Number 7 cosmetics. Some 30 years later PriestmanGoode, the firm he started along with Nigel Goode, has become the go-to firm responsible for designing many of the seats…
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Patrik Schumacher, Principal, Zaha Hadid Architects – Episode 43
On the programme this week our guest is Patrik Schumacher, Principal of Zaha Hadid Architects. When Patrik joined the practice in 1988, Zaha Hadid had just four other employees, based out of a couple of rooms in a converted Victorian school on Bowling Green Lane in Clerkenwell. Patrik Schumacher....
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Deborah Saunt, Co-Founder, DSDHA – Episode 42
Our guest this week is Deborah Saunt, co-founder of the architecture practice DSDHA. Deborah was born in Australia but moved as a child to the UK via a brief stint in Kenya. It was in Scotland that she first studied architecture at Edinburgh College of Art. She later studied via a scholarship at...
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Hattie Hartman, Sustainability Editor, Architects’ Journal – Episode 41
On the programme this week our guest is Hattie Hartman, Sustainability Editor at the Architects’ Journal. The Architects’ Journal was founded in 1895 as The Builder’s Journal and Architectural Record, before being taking its current name in 1919. Some 100 years later the journal still remains one...
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Piers Gough – Episode 40
Our guest this week is the architect Piers Gough CBE. Piers was born in Brighton in the south of England and in 1965 began his studies at the Architectural Association in London – studying under Peter Cook (of Archigram frame) and Elia Zenghelis (who when on to co-found the Office of Metropolitan...
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Peter Clegg and Keith Bradley – Episode 39
On the programme this week we speak to Peter Clegg and Keith Bradley, Partners at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. In 1978 Peter Clegg and Richard Feilden founded their practice as Feilden Clegg Design in Bath in the west of England. Keith Bradley subsequently joined the practice in 1987. It wasn’t...
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Del Hossain – Episode 39
Our guest this week is the managing director of the architectural recruitment firm Adrem. Del Hossain was born and grew up in Manchester before moving to London to study architecture – first at London South Bank University and then at the Bartlett School of Architecture. After working at a number...
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Kirsten Lees – Episode 38
Our guest this week is the architect Kirsten Lees, Managing Partner at Grimshaw Architects. Kirsten was elected as the London studio’s first female Managing Partner in May 2018. In a somewhat unique arrangement Grimshaw’s Managing Partner is elected by the studio’s nine Partners for a three year...
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Jonathan Darke – Episode 37
Our guest this week is the architect Jonathan Darke. Jonathan was born to British Parents in Pennsylvania in the USA. His father’s work as a Civil Engineer led him and the family to move extensively throughout his childhood, living amongst other places in Iran and Pakistan. Later, back in the UK,...
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Pooja Agrawal – Episode 36
Our guest this week is the architect Pooja Agrawal. In 2017 Pooja co-founded the social enterprise Public Practice along with Finn Williams. Public Practice places architects and other built environment experts within local authorities on year-long placements – providing much needed skills and...
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Larry Malcic – Episode 35
Our guest this week is the architect Larry Malcic. Larry was born in St Louis in the American mid west. He later went on to study architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, being taught for a time by the hugely influential architect Louis Khan. After University it was in St Louis that Larry...
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Clare Richards – Episode 34
On the programme this week we speak to the architect Clare Richards. Clare took an unusual route into architecture. Clare started her career as a researcher for BBC television before joining commercial broadcaster TV-am for its launch in 1983. TV-am was hugely influential as the UK’s first...
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Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre – Episode 33
On the programme this week we speak to Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre, directors of WilkinsonEyre. Chris founded Chris Wilkinson Architects in 1983 with Jim joining the practice – now WilkinsonEyre – in 1987. The practice now employs more than 200 people in London, Hong Kong and Sydney. Chris...
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Active Social Architecture – Kigali – Episode 31
On the programme this week we speak to Francesco Stassi and Alice Tasca, principals of Active Social Architecture in Kigali. This week’s programme was recorded in Rwanda as part of a series of episodes we’re bringing you from East Africa to explore identity and architecture. Identity is the theme...
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University of Nairobi – Episode 30
On the programme this week we speak to Professor Tom Anyamba, Dean of the University of Nairobi’s School of the Built and Environment. This week’s episode was recorded in Nairobi as part of a series of episodes we’re bringing you from East Africa to explore identity and architecture. Identity is...
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Raas Architects – Addis Ababa – Episode 29
On the programme this week is Rahel Shawl, Founder and Director of Raas Architects, one of the leading architecture practices in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Rahel originally studied architecture at the Southern Campus of Addis Ababa University. Soon after graduating, Rahel established ABBA…
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Orkid Studio – Nairobi – Episode 28
On the programme this week we speak to James Mitchell and Carolina Larrazabal from Orkid Studio in Nairobi. This week’s episode was recorded in Nairobi as part of a series of programmes we’re bringing you from East Africa to explore identity and architecture. Identity is the theme of this year’s...
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MASS Design Group – Kigali – Episode 27
In this week’s episode we speak to Theophile Uwayezu, architect and associate at MASS Design Group in Kigali, Rwanda. This week’s episode was recorded in Kigali as part of a series of episodes we’re bring you from East Africa, exploring identity and architecture. Identity is the theme of this...
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Nairobi Design Week – Episode 26
For this week’s episode we talk to Adrian Jankowiak and Julita Bhagat, Co-Directors of Nairobi Design Week – an organisation with a mission close to our own hearts, promoting design – in all its disciplines – to a wide public audience. This episode was recorded in Nairobi, the first in a series…
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Association of Ethiopian Architects – Addis Ababa – Episode 25
On the programme this week we speak to Meskerem Tamiru, President of the Association of Ethiopian Architects. This episode was recorded in Addis Ababa as part of a series of episodes we’re bringing you from East Africa to explore identity and architecture. Identity is the theme of this year’s...
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Cave Bureau – Nairobi – Episode 24
On the programme this week we speak to the architects Kabage Karanje and Stella Mutegi, two of the three founding directors of Cave Bureau in Nairobi. This episode was recorded in Nairobi as part of a series of episodes we’re bringing you from East Africa to explore identity and architecture....
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Triad Architects – Nairobi – Episode 23
On the programme this week we speak to the architects James Gitoho and Charles Ndungu, directors at the Kenyan architecture firm Triad Architects. This episode was recorded in Nairobi as part of a series of episodes we’re bringing you from East Africa to explore identity and architecture.…
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Jennifer Dixon – Episode 22
Our guest this week is the architect Jennifer Dixon, Architecture Leader for the global architecture and engineering firm AECOM in the firm’s EMIA region – Europe, Middle East, India and Africa, where she leads a multi-national team of over 500 architects. AECOM provides design, consulting,...
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Steven Charlton – Episode 21
Our guest this week is the designer Steven Charlton. In 2008 – in the midst of the global financial crisis – Steven launched the Middle East office of Pringle Brandon, the architecture and corporate interiors firm founded in London by Chris Brandon and former RIBA President Jack Pringle. Pringle...
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John MsAslan – Episode 20
Our guest this week is the architect John McAslan. John was born Glasgow and later studied architecture at Edinburgh University before following his father to the United States where he worked for architecture firms in Baltimore, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He returned to London in…
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Rashid Ali – Episode 19
Our guest this week is the architect Rashid Ali. Rashid grew up in Hargeisa in Northern Somalia and then in Manchester in Northern England. He went on to study architecture at Greenwich University and Bartlett School of Architecture, as well as City Design at the LSE. He subsequently worked for...
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Ben Derbyshire – Episode 18
Our guest this week is the 76th President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Ben Derbyshire was elected by the Institute’s 44,000 strong membership in August 2016 on a platform calling for change – both in the institute and across the profession. After a year serving as…
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Ken Shuttleworth – Episode 17
Our guest this week made a name for himself working under someone else’s name. For nearly 30 years Ken Shuttleworth worked at Foster & Partners where he led on the design and delivery of such acclaimed buildings as the HSBC Bank in Hong Kong, as well as both 30 St Mary’s Axe – better known as the...
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Christina Seilern – Episode 16
Our guest this week has led something of a peripatetic life. Born to an Austrian father and a German mother, Christina Seilern grew up in Switzerland before moving to the United States with the intention of studying biology at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. But she soon dropped biology and...
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Tatiana von Preussen – Episode 15
On the programme this week is the architect Tatiana von Preussen. Tatiana originally studied architecture at Cambridge University in the UK. After a year out working for the architecture firm Stanton Williams, she moved to New York to attend Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture…
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Annalie Richies – Episode 14
On the programme this week is the architect Annalie Riches – one half of the multi-award winning architecture firm Mikhail Riches. The practice, founded by Annalie and her partner David Mikhail – are known for their considerable track record of beautifully considered housing developments. Annalie...
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Eric Parry – Episode 13
Our guest this week is the architect Eric Parry. Eric was born in Kuwait in 1952 where his father was the country’s Chief Medical Officer, helping establish its health service. When Eric was ten, the family returned to the UK and settled in Liverpool. Eric later studied architecture at Newcastle...
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Patty Hopkins – Episode 12
On the programme this week is the architect Patty Hopkins. Patty studied architecture at the Architectural Association where she met her future husband Michael Hopkins. After graduating from the AA Patty ran her own practice whilst Michael worked in partnership with Norman Foster. But in 1976 the...
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Alison Brooks – Episode 11
On the programme this week is the architect Alison Brooks. Alison was born in Canada and studied architecture at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. As part of Canada’s co-op system, during her studies she alternated between university and practice, gaining experience with many of Canada’s top...