88: About Buildings + Cities

Recorded live in London at the Barbican Centre earlier this month, this episode marks the publication of Order Prevails in Berlin, a new essay by the Italian novelist Vincenzo Latronico that acts as an autobiographical key to his highly acclaimed and Booker Prize-shortlisted nove ...  Show more

Architects from Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects discuss how AI is entering the design studio, from generative design tools to new workflows shaping the future of practice.*This episode is supported by Chaos Group, and features a short conversation ...  Show more

L’architecture contemporaine peut-elle nous faire trembler de joie ? Dans son travail, devenu un art, Tadao Andō réconcilie ce que l’on croyait inconciliable : le béton et la lumière, le passé et le présent, le bouillonnement de la modernité et la terre. Né dans le O ...

A new epoch has begun! Le Corbusier’s ‘discovery’ is that the style of future architecture is to be found new inventions of the machine age — planes, cars, ocean liners. But ‘Towards a New Architecture’ is, at its heart, an argument for a fusion of timeless values and contemporar ...  Show more

This week we’re talking SKYSCRAPERS! Despite the pandemic, despite a global shortage of labour and materials – it seems like nothing can stop the skyscraper.

Later in the episode, we talk about "Get Construction Talking" - a new mental health initiative founded by Th ...

The first of a two part episode exploring Le Corbusier’s infamous and much-derided urban proposals, exhibited in the Esprit Nouveau Pavilion in 1925. In this part, we’re conducting a close reading of ‘Urbanism’ (sometimes known as ‘The City of Tomorrow and its Planning’). We most ...  Show more