A is for Architecture Podcast
By Ambrose Gillick
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Explore the world of architecture with the A is for Architecture Podcast hosted by Ambrose Gillick. Through conversations with designers, scholars and practitioners, Ambrose unpacks the creative and theoretical dimensions of architecture. Whether you're a professional, student, or design enthusiast, the A is for Architecture Podcast offers the best insights into how buildings shape society and society shapes buildings. To keep it free and good, subscribe to the podcast on Patreon.
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Asma Mehan: Architecture in the shadow of oil.
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May 28, 2026 |
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Leslie Kern: Resisting gentrification.
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May 21, 2026 |
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Spyros Papapetros and Gerd Zillner: Kiesler: magic, metaphysics and home.
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May 14, 2026 |
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Beatriz Colomina: Architecture as disease and cure.
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May 07, 2026 |
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Hilde Heynen & Lucía Pérez-Moreno: Feminist ecologies and architecture.
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Stefan Al: Houses, forms, cultures.
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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Miriam Attwood & John Kinsley: Building community.
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Tim Altenhof: Atmospheres and architecture.
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Ed Wall: Architecture & war.
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Andreas Lechner: Forms and typologies.
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Lee Ivett: Blueprint for a new architecture.
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Itohan Osayimwese: Africa, ornament and architecture.
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Ellen Braae & Thordis Arrhenius: Scandinavia and the architecture of welfare.
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Alexander Josephson: Practice life and the political.
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Frances Northrop and Amica Dall: Commons and cooperative practice.
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Nele De Raedt & Maarten Delbeke: Beauty, aesthetics.
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Fernando Lara: Alternative American architectures.
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Francis Terry: New classical architecture.
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat: Making Gaza.
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Patrick Hutchison: Into the woods.
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Gili Merin: Jerusalem pilgrim city.
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Andreea Mihalache: Modern architecture and boredom.
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Larissa Fassler: Mapping meaning in the city.
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Peter Stutchbury: Voices, sky, land and folk.
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Shiben Banerji: Occult modernist urban visions.
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Adam Sharr: Heidegger (ahem), building, senses.
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Alva Gotby: Other means of dwelling.
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Piers Taylor: Building in place.
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Jeana Ripple: Architecture, materials, technology and equity.
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Patrick Lynn Rivers & Kai Wood Mah: Situated practices.
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Hans van der Heijden: A rationalist architecture.
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Peter Apps: Home making and unmaking.
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Stefano Boeri: Architecture with nature.
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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James Benedict Brown & Derek Jones: The design studio.
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Sir Charles Saumarez Smith: John Vanbrugh and building as theatre.
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Anna Kostreva: Science fiction and architecture.
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Holly Smith: High-rise housing in Britain.
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Charlotte Malterre-Barthes: Unmaking architecture.
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Wayne Hemingway: The housing crisis.
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Marianna Charitonidou: Drawing, meaning and modernism.
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Michael Euade: Gaudi and the Catalan image.
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Piers Gough & Sophie Ryder: 50 years of CZWG.
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Géraldine Borio: Making space in the Asian city.
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Christian Schmid: Henri Lefebvre and the space of the city.
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Azza Aboualam: Food, culture, architecture.
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Paul Chatterton: The social city.
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Scott Balmforth and Gerard Reinmuth: Territories of Architecture.
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May 28, 2025 |
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Richard J Williams: Expressways and the urban imagination.
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May 21, 2025 |
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Owen Hopkins: Home made manifestos.
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May 14, 2025 |
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Kenny Cupers: Empire, architecture and modern design.
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May 07, 2025 |
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Tom Spector: The architect as public servant.
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Chris L Smith: Deleuze & Guattari & Architecture
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Stefan Al & Tom Verebes: Reading urban design
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Justin O’Connor: Community, culture and the city.
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Alistair Fair: New Towns, New Scotland.
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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John Boughton: Social histories of council housing.
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Dinah Bornat: Play home city children.
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Shayan Adham: Critical practice and the cosmopolitan imagination.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Stylianos Giamarelos: Critical Regionalism versus Postmodernism.
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Robert G. Hollands: Culture and the Creative City.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Chris Younès: Rethinking Architecture - Space, architects, ethics and ecology.
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Cameron McEwan: Aldo Rossi and the Analogical City.
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Dorina Pojani: Power, prestige and inequality in new capital cities.
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago: Planning, the commons and resistance.
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Pablo Meninato: Informal settlements and social change.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Franca Trubiano: Theory, making and the ethical architect.
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Bernard Tschumi: Poetics, ethics, cities and spaces.
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Guillaume Couche: Interface design and user experience.
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Fiona Smyth: Architecture and the history of acoustics.
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Clive Aslet: Edwin Lutyens - Architect for All Seasons.
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Lorens Holm: Architecture, the unconscious, Freud and Lacan.
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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John Stewart: Sculpture for architecture.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Sue Brownill: Making London’s Docklands.
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Tom Morton: Architecture, art and ecology in Orkney.
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Beth Weinstein: Architecture and dance.
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Austin Williams: Architecture and critique.
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Tanzil Shafique: Informal architecture.
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Gabriel Esquivel: Making, architecture, digital.
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Jessica Kelly: The architect and the architectural press.
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Graham Haughton and Iain White: Theories of Planning.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Henrik Schoenefeldt: Environmental design and the Houses of Parliament.
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Dell Upton: American architecture.
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Cat Rossi, Victoria Kelley & Jessica Kelly: Borders.
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Nigel Cross: How designers think.
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Robyne Calvert: Design, reconstruction and The Mackintosh Building.
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Richard J Weller: A Grand Tour through the Anthropocene.
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Michael Pawlyn: Biomimetic, regenerative architecture.
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Sofia Singler: The Aaltos’ sacred architecture
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Jane Rendell: Psychoanalysis writing architecture
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Cécile Brisac: Buildings, cities, care and elegance.
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Tony Fretton: The social art of architecture
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Des Fitzgerald: Green urbanism, health and city futures
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Victoria Jane Marshall: Mapping the periurban
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Charles Holland: The Joy of Architecture.
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Mallory Baches: New Urbanism
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Sam Jacob: Code, representation, image, architecture.
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Tim Ingold: Anthropology - Making - Architecture
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May 29, 2024 |
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Sabina Andron: Graffiti, semiotics and the city
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May 22, 2024 |
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Pier Vittorio Aureli: Processes of abstraction in modern architecture
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May 15, 2024 |
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Paul Watt: Council housing and gentrification
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May 08, 2024 |
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Aaron Betsky: Utopia, monster, city.
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May 01, 2024 |
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Nimi Attanayake and Tim O'Callaghan: The principled architect.
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Sophia Psarra: Parliament, power, politics and architecture.
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Matthew Fuller: Conflict, aesthetics and architecture.
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Ashton Hamm: Democratic practice
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Catherine Ingraham: Architecture as theory
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Neelkanth Chhaya: Architectures of Indian modernity
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Laurence Lord: Civic practice in Ireland and Holland.
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Frank Jacobus and Brian M Kelly: Architecture and AI.
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick: Defensible space
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Ken Worpole: Designing social care
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Mark Jarzombek: Design, discipline, labour, craft.
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Swati Chattopadhyay: Making empire everyday.
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Jim Stephenson (with Sofia Smith): Photography, architecture and everyday life.
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Katie Lloyd Thomas: Architects, builders, specifications
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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John Pawson: Minimalist architecture.
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Dana Cuff: Architecture and spatial justice.
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Rob Fiehn: London’s futures
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Petra Marko: Placemaking for the city.
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Annette Fierro: Utopia, machines, Archigram and the High Tech.
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Rowan Moore: The social house.
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Juhani Pallasmaa: Architecture, time and the five senses.
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Keller Easterling: Object/ People/ System/ Design
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Chris Dyson & Dominic Bradbury: Making history modern.
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Katrin Bohn and André Viljoen: Urban agriculture as design
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Tom de Paor: City, suburb, desert
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Leonard Ma, Helen Runting and Tahl Kaminer: Gentrification, suburbia, cities and finance.
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Paul Dobraszczyk: Animals and architecture
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Charlotte Skene Catling: From geoarcheology to architecture.
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Liz Postlethwaite: Permaculture and design.
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Stuart Vokes and Aaron Peters: Architecture, suburbia and Brisbane.
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Mónica Montserrat Degen and Gillian Rose: The New Urban Aesthetic.
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Simon Henley: Beneficial building.
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Denise Scott Brown: Becoming Denise.
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Alan Dickson: Authentic vernaculars in rural Scotland.
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Eleanor Jolliffe & Paul Crosby: Making Architects.
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Charles Holland: Co-Living in the Countryside.
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Andrew Beharrell & Rory Olcayto: New urban housing.
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Ben Derbyshire: Politics, ethics and practice.
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May 25, 2023 |
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Susannah Hagan: Architecture and the Anthropocene.
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May 18, 2023 |
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Torsten Schmiedeknecht and Jill Rudd: Making modern childhood.
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May 11, 2023 |
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Albena Yaneva: Covid, bodies, cities and urban things.
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May 04, 2023 |
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Gary Boyd: Coal, architecture and modernity.
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Gordana Fontana-Giusti: Foucault and the language of architects.
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Bryan Cantley: Architecture between the real and the virtual.
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Reinier de Graaf: Thinking architecture.
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Neal Shasore & Jessica Kelly: Postwar architecture and democracy.
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Patrick Lynch: Architecture’s ground.
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman: Architecture, justice, the spatial and the social.
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Kim Dovey: Informal settlements and emergent urbanism.
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Maurice Mitchell and Bo Tang: Detective, narrator, craftsman, architect.
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Flora Samuel: Housing, health and eudaimonia.
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Alex Ely: Resilience, networks and architectural practice.
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Ed Parham: Space Syntax, cities and digital futures.
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Sally Stone: Interiority, interior design and change.
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Gevork Hartoonian: Architecture, spectacle and the image.
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Jonathan Hale: Phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty and architecture.
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Henry Sanoff: Participation, design and play.
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Piers Taylor: Making architecture, nature and community
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Ruth Lang: Creative reuse and sustainability
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Jos Boys: Activism, architecture and disordinary bodies.
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Beatriz Colomina & Evangelos Kotsioris: Radical pedagogies
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Paul Dobraszczyk: Anarchism, architecture and the polis.
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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Erika Doss: Memorials and memory in America.
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Gwendolyn Wright: America and the spirit of modernity.
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Sarah Wigglesworth: Participation, community and sustainable practice.
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Sofie Pelsmakers & Elizabeth Donovan: Designing sustainable architecture.
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Christian Parreño: Boredom, capitalism and architecture.
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Juliet Davis: Care, urban design and the city
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Pierre d'Avoine: Housing, imagination and belonging.
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Torange Khonsari: Cultural commoning, community and design.
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Craig Hamilton: Sacred Architecture, Dialogue and the Classical Tradition
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Vikramaditya Prakash, Maristella Casciato & Daniel E. Coslett: Rethinking Global Modernism
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Alastair Parvin: Open systems and democratic built environments.
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Michael Young: Aesthetics, digital images and architecture
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Harriet Harriss: Architecture, intersectionality and the anthropocene
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Stefanie Rhodes: Practicing architecture
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May 27, 2022 |
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Bruce Peter: Aeroplanes, hotels and global architectures
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Albena Yaneva: Bruno Latour, ANT and Architects
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Dean Hawkes: Architects, Environments and Imaginations
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Neil Pinder: Teaching design thinking
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Shira de Bourbon Parme: Anthropology and integrated urban development
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Jim Stockard: Housing, cohousing and citizenship
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Alan Powers: Modernism's muddy waters.
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Greg Keeffe: Environmentalism, biomimicry and sustainable cities
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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Ola Uduku: Africa, modernism and encounter
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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Richard Brook: Manchester, modern city.
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Johnny Rodger: Essays, language, performativity and the contemporary.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Liam Gillick: Concrete, production, practice and ethics.
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Malcolm Fraser: Sustainable architecture, social mixing and democratic spaces.
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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John Letherland: Urbanism, masterplanning and placemaking.
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Hana Loftus: Town planning, architecture and an education in place making.
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Anne Marie Galmstrup: Programmes, publics and intangibles.
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Maggie Ma and Mark Kingsley: Engagement, housing and Hong Kong.
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Robert Adam: Tradition, beauty, authenticity and hybridity.
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Geraldine Dening: Social housing, urban culture and community action.
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Siraaj Mitha: Widening participation, equality, education and representation.
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Lee Ivett: Making, seeing, justice and engagement.
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Tahl Kaminer: Modern architecture and the political
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Amica Dall: Writing contemporary architecture
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Bob Brown: Vernacular architecture, marginal voices and identity.
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Kathleen James-Chakraborty: The Bauhaus, women and modern architecture
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Richard Williams: Reyner Banham, Los Angeles, cars and everyday life
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Sep 25, 2021 |