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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 ...  Show more

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 ...  Show more

Sarah, Janaya and I swoon over Claire Wahmanholm's Redmouth, and talk about surprises in poetry, and things like diction, mystery, white space, erasure poetry, how to convey emotions and ideas through images and sounds, how living poets should relate to the tradition, and much mo ...  Show more

This week David and Marina of FAME Architecture & Design share their favorite aspects of being an architect. They discussed ongoing learning opportunities; building something from nothing; architecture camaraderie; const ...

This week David and Marina share their thoughts on Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles and Pompidou Center, the relationship between beauty and structure, and architecture books that are important to them.

This week, we’re delighted to have the acclaimed AD100 designer, Rabah Saeid, founder of Styled Habitat, on the Design Pod podcast! In this episode, we explore Rabah’s philosophy of creating timeless and sensual aesthetics, her approach to integrating cultural context into design ...  Show more