A is for Architecture Podcast
by Ambrose Gillick
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Beth Hughes: Education for another architecture.
Beth Hughes: Education for another architecture.
About this podcast
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.
The podcast is not affiliated with Ambrose's place of works.
Episodes
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- Beth Hughes: Education for another architecture. · 59 min · Episode 220In the newest episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast Beth Hughes, Head of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London, spoke with me about, well, all sorts – but…
- Witold Rybczynski: Coming to terms with architecture. · 1 h 21 min · Episode 219In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast architectural totem, Canadian American architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski, Professor Emeritus at the…
- Cat Rossi and Charles Holland: Design as method and object. · 1 h 16 min · Episode 217This episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast features a brace of professors, Cat Rossi and Charles Holland, both of UCA and Charles, Founder director of Charles Holland…
- Antony Wood: Tall buildings and sustainable vertical urbanism. · 54 min · Episode 217In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Professor Antony Wood PhD, Tall Building Expert, Professor of Sustainable Vertical Urbanism at the Illinois Institute of…
- Mabel O. Wilson: Spaces of liberation. · 54 min · Episode 216In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Mabel O. Wilson - architect, historian, and professor at Columbia University, director of the Institute for Research in…
- JL Williams: Architecture, dreams, metaphor & poetry. · 1 h 26 min · Episode 215In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, poet and Creative Projects Manager at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, JL Williams, spoke to me about her recent collection…
- Shumi Bose: Words relating to theory. · 1 h 6 min · Episode 214In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, I spoke to Shumi Bose, about her work as a curator, chief editor of KoozArch, senior lecturer in architecture at Central…
- Maximillian Sternberg: Hans Dollgast: Designing in history · 1 h 16 min · Episode 213In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Professor Max Sternberg discuss the Bavarian architect Hans Döllgast, the subject of his latest book, Hans Döllgast…
- Ole Bouman: Bicycles, buildings and an ethic of care. · 56 min · Episode 212Architecture’s conscience – as building, buildings, materials and practices – is a bolt-on at best, but more often a semantic, sophistic trick. Architecture as a profession talks…
- Maria Fusco: Site writing, sensing, place. · 1 h 6 min · Episode 211As architects, the nature of buildings is as drawings. Even when on site, a building is read in terms of its relationship to the documents off its legal production, preeminent…
- Gabriella Bennett: Other possible cities. · 1 h 12 min · Episode 210What would a failing city look like? Would one be able to tell if, for example, London or New York were a busted flush? What would be the markers? Social discord, unwalkable…
- Timothy Soar: Images of architecture. · 1 h 4 min · Episode 209As George Berkeley almost almost said, if architecture is built in a city but no one takes its picture, does it make a sound? Photography is intrinsic to architecture, so much so…
- Irénée Scalbert: Earth City Architecture. · 1 h 11 min · Episode 208After the exhaustion of modernist functionalism and Koolhaasian bigness, architecture should be reconceived within the limits of the earth, as craft, stewardship, locality and…
- Jo Farb Hernández: Artists as architects. · 52 min · Episode 207For Immanuel Kant, an aesthetic experience required four conditions: disinterestedness, universality, purposiveness and necessity. Architecture, as such, has always struggled…
- Winka Dubbeldam: Architecture and hybridity. · 53 min · Episode 206What if buildings could free themselves – or be freed by their architects – of the stricture of type, of discrete identity, of typology? What might happen if, for example, a…
- Paul Knox: London, heritage and capital. · 1 h 5 min · Episode 205In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, I spoke with Paul Knox, University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech, about his 2025 book, Lost London: From Crystal…
- Vanessa Grossman: Architecture and the communists. · 1 h 9 min · Episode 205In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, I spoke to architect and historian, Vanessa Grossman, Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of…
- Asma Mehan: Architecture in the shadow of oil. · 46 min · Episode 197In the latest episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, I spoke to architect and scholar, Asma Mehan, Assistant Professor at the Huckabee College of Architecture, Texas Tech…
- Leslie Kern: Resisting gentrification. · 59 min · Episode 202In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, I spoke to scholar, activist, author and feminist totem, Leslie Kern, about Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies…
- Spyros Papapetros and Gerd Zillner: Kiesler: magic, metaphysics and home. · 1 h 9 minFrederick Kiesler was an Austrian-American architect, artist and theorist who, born at the tail end of the nineteenth century, bore witness to the irresistible rise of modernism…
