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ArchitectureTalk
by Vikram Prakash
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.
Episodes
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161. Pierre Jeanneret and the Chandigarh Vernacular with Manu Sobti
Today, we are joined by Manu Sobti who is a senior lecturer at the University of Brisbane in Australia. We talk to Sobti today about his research on Pierre Jeanneret and Aditya Prakash, what he found, and the role of these two people in the making of modern India and modern architecture
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160. Modernism's Magic Hat with Ijlal Muzzafar
Today, we are joined by Ijlal Muzzafar who is a professor at RISD and author of Modernism's Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital. The book is M's thesis on how modernists in the post-war era invoked and worked with the concept of development to produce a...
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159. Devising Theater with Jeffrey Fracé
Today, we are joined by Jeffrey Fracé who is the chair of acting at the University of Washington. Fracé discusses his background of the arts through Shakespeare, improvisational theater, the different modalities of theater, and the difference between producing theater and producing architecture.
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158. Jean Louis Cohen and the Transurbanism of the Modern City
"Architecture and culture operate in a porous manner through the construction of ideas…Trotsky reading Henry George, who had an impact on Frank Lloyd Wright in the U.S. which then bounced back into Russia in the 1930s… so I'm interested in the worldwide circulation of ideas, and their patterns…
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157. Life is a River, A Conversation with 2018 Pritzker Prize Winner BV Doshi
At age 90, Balkrishna Vithaldas (B.V.) Doshi's journey in architecture has spanned 70 years, starting from Indian independence in 1947, to the vicissitudes of postmodernism and globalization. Doshi's voice is a touchstone in global and Indian modernism. Conversation topics include his reflection…
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156. Modernism, Utopia, and Living the Catastrophe with Anthony Vidler
As we kick off our new season on ArchitectureTalk, we are bringing back our conversation with Anthony Vidler: Modernism, Utopia, and Living the Catastrophe. Anthony Vidler (1941-October 19, 2023) was an architectural historian, role model, and friend who will be missed dearly.
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155. Homelessness is a Housing Problem with Gregg Colburn
Today we are joined by Gregg Colburn who co-wrote "Homelessness is a Housing Problem". Colburn also shares with us his findings about causes of homelessness, his views on the situation, and some solutions that could remove the problem.
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154. Alternative Futures with SB Divya
Today we are joined by SB Divya who wrote the science fiction novel Meru and helps us think about potential futures on Earth. Meru as we discuss in this episode is a future in which tech is developed based on imaginations of current technology and science and possibilities unknown but conceivable.
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153. Decolonizing Archives with Martien de Vletter
Today we are joined by Martien de Vletter who is the associate director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and gathers archival material dedicated to rethinking, remembering, and preserving architectural thoughts and memories. Vletter also talks about decolonizing the archive and...
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152. Songs of Protest and Sorrow and Connecting Civilizations with Sumangala Damodaran
Today we are joined by Sumangala Damodaran who teaches in the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, trained economist, dedicated her life to documenting and being a part of leftist oppositional protest movements. Today, Damodaran discusses her protest songs, her…
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151. Soft Data and Common Wares with Afroditi Psarra and Audrey Desjardins
Today we are joined by Afroditi Psarra and Audrey Desjardins who talk about building alternative technologies that respond to and critique the world of data, and their project "Soft Data and Common Wares".
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150. Before and After Our Wars with Eliyahu Keller
Today we are joined by Eliyahu Keller who shares with us the relationship between war, war technology, architectural thinking, the climate crisis, the post-COVID era, and the crisis of imagination.
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149. Architecture as the Rearrangement of Relationships with Neelkanth Chhaya
To kick off the new year, today we are joined by Neelkanth Chhaya who is a professor in India. Chhaya discusses forms and contingence of south Asian aesthetic theory, he is an open-minded and inquisitor thinker, and examines the ideas and interests and cross-references them.
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148. The Promise. Architect B.V. Doshi with Jan Schmidt-Garre
This week, we are joined by Jan Schmidt-Garre, who directed the film The Promise. Architect B.V. Doshi which was shown at the ADFF (Architecture Design Film Festival). This film took place in the last few years of his life and highlighted his philosophies and outlook on architecture and design.
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147. Moby Dick and Modernism with Ayad Rahmani
Today we are joined with Ayad Rahmani who teaches architecture at Washington State University. Rahmani's love for literature and architecture leads us to today's conversation about Moby Dick and architecture.
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146. Modernism, Utopia, and Living Catastrophe with Anthony Vidler
As we kick off our new season on ArchitectureTalk, we are bringing back our conversation with Anthony Vidler: Modernism, Utopia, and Living Catastrophe. Anthony Vidler (1941-October 19, 2023) was an architectural historian, role model, and friend who will be missed dearly.
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145. The Cyberfeminism Index with Mindy Seu
This week we are joined by Mindy Seu who published The Cyberfeminism Index electronically and physically. What we focus on is how the index is gathered, organized, and shared and how it could be applicable in the built environment.
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144. Towards a Post-Punk Gothic Architecture with Phillip Thurtle
This week we are joined by Phillip Thurtle, who is the director of the Comparitive History of Ideas (CHID) program at the University of Washington Seattle. Thurtle talks to us about the gothic, what it is and what it means to him and what he researches.
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142. Phantom Hands with Deepak Srinath
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.
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141. The Faada-Adda Conversations with Mariam Issoufou Kamara (Part III): Future Faada Adda with AbdouMaliq Simone
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.
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140. Biking Through American Freedom with Benedikt Hartl
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.
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139. Planetary and the Climate Crisis with James Graham
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.
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138. Fronts: Military Urbanism and the Developing World with Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller
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…
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137. Bawa's Garden with Clara Kraft Isono
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…
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136. Architecture after Architecture with Jeremy Till
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…
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135. The Faada-Adda Conversations with Mariam Issoufou Kamara (Part II): Future Hériter
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.
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134. Architecture and Design Film Festival with Kyle Bergman
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.
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133. Arch Talk on Architecture Talk with Junichi Satoh
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...
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132. Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age with Mark Jarzombek
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.
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131. Pre-crastinating Art with Aaron Bourget
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.
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130. The Faada-Adda Conversations with Mariam Issoufou Kamara (Part I)
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.
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129. Comparing Connections in the Ethosphere with Ambrose Gillick (Part II)
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...
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128. Comparing Connections in the Ethosphere with Ambrose Gillick (Part I)
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...
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127. The Architecture of Art with Hiroshi Okamoto
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…
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126. Moving Beyond the Post-Colonial and the Mythological West with Martino Stierli
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.
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125. Architecture in the Symbolic Realm: Troubling the Remaking of New Delhi's Central Vista with Aneesha Dharwadker
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…
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124. Architecture and the Photographic Eye with Randhir Singh
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...
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123. A Fieldguide to Sub-Saharan African Architecture with Adil Dalbai and Livingstone Mukasa
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...
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122. Reyner Banham Revisited with Richard Williams
This week we sit down with Prof. Richard Williams of the Edinburgh College of Art to discuss his recently published book Reyner Banham Revisited
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121. Part 2: The Living Links between Indian Modernism and Indian Tradition with William J.R. Curtis
Once again, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curtis for Part two of this conversation. We pick up right where we left off, rumbling through the dusty roads of India with William on his way to meet Balkrishna Doshi, the living link between the force…
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120. Part 1: Mental Landscapes and the Architectural Archipelagos of Indian Modernism with William J.R. Curtis
This week, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curtis and his reading of the narrative of Indian Modernism. Part one of a two part series, Curtis and Prakash focus today's conversation on the life and work of Aditya Prakash, the nature and production of...
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119. Oracular Visions and the Fungal Futures with Mark Jarzombek
The modernist legacy has helped proliferate the current environmental crisis on a global scale. In architecture, what is to be done to address this civilizational problem? Could oracular visions be a way to rethink how we practice and teach architecture? Join us for this week's conversation with...
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118. OCL Rerelease: On the Relevance of the Midcentury Modern Moment in India
In anticipation of the next installment of the One Continuous Line webinar series on Globalization and the Modernist City (being held online on December 13, 2021) this episode is a re-release of the previous panel discussion. This episode features guests Mark Jarzombek, Anthony Vidler, Partha...
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117. Chandigarh:Possibility in Engaging the Unknown in the Incomplete with Remi Papillault
This week, we sit down with Remi Papillault to discuss the topic of his new book, and the subject of his ongoing interests: the development of Chandigarh and Le Corbusier's hand in its shaping.
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116. The Politics of Acoustic Space and Sonic Montage with Joseph Clarke
This week, we sit down with Joseph Clarke to discuss his new book Echo's Chamber: Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space. The discussion looks at the convergence of politics, acoustics, and the metamorphosis of acoustic spatial thinking from Wagner to Le Corbusier and beyond.
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115. An American Architect in India with David Stein
This week, the subject turns back to legacy. We have a conversation with the son of Joseph Allen Stein who was an American-born architect, designing fabulous buildings across India during the Nehruvian period in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. David Stein takes us through his life growing up in India...
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114. Nightrise and the Nocturnal Landscape with Mohamad Nahleh
What is an architecture of the Nightrise? How might we spatialize the unseeable, or "freeze" the shadows of a conjuration? This week, we have a fascinating discussion with Mohamad Nahleh, a recent MIT graduate, about his recent personal research and graduate thesis on the night in Jabal 'Amil in...
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113. Architecture as a Site of Thinking with Mark Dorrian
How might we think about architectural education differently in a post-pandemic world? What are the intersections between Covid and Climate Change? How does seeing architecture as a site of thinking impact education today? This week, we sit down with Mark Dorrian to take a deep dive into the...
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112. Connectedness, Eroticism, and the Flâneur with David Turnbull
Join us this week for a far-ranging and fascinating conversation with David Turnbull, architect, thinker and educator.
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