126. Moving Beyond the Post-Colonial and the ...

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 archi ...  Afficher plus

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 ...  Afficher plus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Victorian engineer responsible for bridges, tunnels and railways still in use today more than 150 years after they were built. Brunel represented the cutting edge of technological innovation in Victorian Britain, and hi ...  Afficher plus

Adam Haddow has been a director at well-known architecture firm SJB since 2002. Adam is a Churchill Fellow who is known for his study of alternatives to conventional models of urban design. 

As NSW Chapter President of the Australian Institute of Architects, Adam leads t ...

In this episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green explores the contemporary Indian art scene with Aparajita Jain, director of Nature Morte and founder of the Saat Saath Arts Foundation. We discuss the evolution of the Indian art market, from its global exposure in the ear ...  Afficher plus

The 1960s continue to hold an almost mythical place in Western culture, particularly in Britain, where change was widespread and infiltrated many aspects of life. This included architecture, whose role in a modern democracy and the form it should take were hotly debated. 1960s Un ...  Afficher plus