ArchitectureTalk

This week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with guest Mark Wigley, Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP. In this episode, we dissect how the Corona virus reinforces social inequities, how it changes the ways in which we communicate, what it means to live in a city during a pandemic, and what the role of the architect is in these uncertain conditions.

This week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with guest Dr. Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan professor of Islamic Architecture at MIT. In this episode, we look beyond the individual and beyond North America to turn our heads towards the Middle East and the aggravated complexities that have arisen in these challenging times.

This week, in our ongoing series Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus, we sit down with Tanya Wells of the musical act Seven Eyes to discuss the intersections of music and architecture. We ask about her catalogue of experiences during this global pandemic, the cross-culturality of their music, and her transnational upbringing that informs her craft now.

What can architecture do in the time of a pandemic? What is an architecture of medical necessity? This week, we talk with Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group to discuss architecture in the time of COVID-19.

How do we design against extinction in the time of Corona virus? This week, we talk with Dr. Mitchell Joachim and Nicholas Gervasi of TerreformOne about working within the Earth’s metabolism and with actual living organisms to reconfigure what design means in changing times.

Image: Central California History Museum: Proto-Formal Section by Perry Kulper 2006

What is architecture and what is its frontier of thinking in the time of Corona virus? This week, we talk with architect and architectural thinker Perry Kulper about his work methods, inspirations, drawing techniques, and thoughts on the current pandemic.

What is Living Architecture? What are alternative modes of being and building in the world? What are the implications of the Coronavirus as a living system and how might that impact what architecture might be?

What is architecture and what is its frontier of thinking in the time of Corona Virus? This week, we talk with WAI Think Tank about their backgrounds, their multi-dimensional practice, and how they think architecture will be affected by this global pandemic.

This week, Vikram sits down with young professionals Sarah Burk, Siyu Qu and Will Crothers to talk about the scene, culture, aesthetic, and ethics of Seattle’s practicing architectural community in the city today. 

This week, Vikram and veteran guest, Mark Jarzombek, meet at MIT to discuss the status of the Global Project. This was recorded in front of an audience of Mark's students and teaching assistants who participated in a Q&A following our episode. 

A Global History of Architecture, Wiley, 2rd Ed. 

For Americans, it was the Vietnam War. For Vietnam and Laos, It was The American War. Next week, we are joined by photographers Pao Houa Her and Sadie Wechsler as we discuss relationships of the war, both past and present, within their current collaborative exhibit, The American War.

Image credit: Sadie Wechsler

This week, we are joined by prolific architect of northwest modernism, Gordon Walker as we discuss Grant Hildebrand’s biography, “Gordon Walker, A Poetic Architecture”   

Published by Arcade, July 2, 2019

Image: Lucia | Marquand

What can we learn about an urban environment when we understand it, both socially and spatially, as an ecology? This week, we investigate the intersection of environmental justice and public space with sociologist, Amita Baviskar as we discuss her new book, Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi

Sage Publications, Dec. 19, 2019

How can a piece of music describe moving through an architectural space? For composer Bright Sheng, it’s all about the structure. This week, we’ll be discussing music, architecture and process with the globally renowned conductor, composer, pianist and educator!

This week, we welcome in the new year with a stunning discussion on the relationship between dance and the spaces we perform in with Chair to University of Washington’s department of dance, Jennifer Salk. 

Image: "Murmur" work by Jennifer Salk and D Chase Angier on site at Chateau Le Coste Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France, 2018 

This week, we investigate settlement, agency, pedagogy and architecture's tireless hope for utopia with esteemed professor of architecture history and criticism at The Cooper Union, Anthony Vidler. 

Image: "Warped Space", Anthony Vidler. MIT Press, 2002 

Here in the United States, we just celebrated Thanksgiving, and in the midst of all the feasting, we were not able to release a new episode. But we would love for you to revisit one of our favorite episodes from last season, Transversality: Klee, Kahn and the Persian Imagination with Shima Mohajeri. 

This week, we discuss the booming industry that is Indian Cinema, the Cinema House and Bollywood with Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Washington, Sudhir Mahadevan.

This week, we are joined by architect and artist, Anthony Pellecchia, as he shares with us his perspective on the profession of architecture, and his path from Hoboken, New Jersey, through the office of Louis Kahn, to a love of conceptual practice.

Image: "Skyline", Anthony Pellecchia 

This week, we discuss thin shell concrete and the work of Jack Christiansen as "Sculpture On a Grand Scale" with structural engineer and University of Washington, Professor of architecture, Tyler Sprague.