Marianna Charitonidou: Drawing, meaning and modernism.

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Ellen Braae & Thordis Arrhenius: Scandinavia and the architecture of welfare.

The A is for Architecture Podcast’s 191st episode is a conversation with two professors, Ellen Braae & Thordis Arrhenius, about their and Guttorm Ruud’s publication, Architecture and Welfare: Scandinavian Perspectives, which came out with Birkhäuser in 2025.To summarise the book ...  Show more

Alexander Josephson: Practice life and the political.

For Episode 190 of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Alexander Josephson, architect, lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, and in 2012, co-founder of PARTISANS, a Toronto-based collective of architects, designers and thinkers that, among other ...  Show more

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