Attention — Audio Journal for Architecture
Attention is an audio journal for architectural culture that uses the medium of sound and spoken word to capture a dimension of architecture otherwise lost in print. By precluding visual media, Attention strikes a distance between the distraction economy of much online media, creating an intimate and reflective space for the in-depth development of ideas and issues. Through interviews, roundtable debates, oral histories, field recordings, the exploration of archival recordings, experimental music and soundscapes, reportage and audio essays, Attention investigates issues of concern to contemporary architectural culture, theory and practice.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 51
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2022
7D. Playing the Detective
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the artist, puzzle-maker, and escape room designer Laura E. Hall about the design of escape rooms for the public, building community, and the politics of pla…
00:37:43 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
7E. Bypass Codes
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the investigative journalist and veteran beat reporter Caryn Dolley about the use of biometric and building surveillance devices in organized crime networks.…
00:17:43 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
7A. Introduction
In this episode, Megan Eardley introduces Issue 7 by relating contemporary spatial practices to the literary detective story and present day political realities of surveillance, state violence, and j…
00:05:51 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
7C. Invisibility As Form
In this episode, Megan Eardley invites listeners to reflect on the way that detective work operates between form and event. She interviews the artist Janice Kerbel about the use of detective work in …
00:19:37 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
7B. On the Threshold of Detectability
Like proof, evidence typically refers to things, traces, marks, or signs, that can be studied to establish relevant facts and evaluate competing theories. But while proof has been associated with tes…
00:25:50 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
7F. The Sound Of Secrecy
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the writer and artist Bryan Finoki. He describes how he came to study the security industry and reflects on his process of harvesting his own field recording…
00:12:54 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
7G. Dark Freqs
This episode presents Dark Freqs, an original sound piece by Bryan Finoki. Please note that the piece incorporates recordings of police brutality.
00:18:27 |
Fri 02 Sep 2022
6A. Community Design As A Process
In Episode 1, Anna Goodman explains how contemporary architects in the United States often pursue community-engaged work through the design of processes. Analysis from the architectural historian Sus…
00:33:43 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
6B. Karl Linn and the Idea of Neighborhood Commons
In Episode 2, Anna Goodman describes a shift in the way architects in the United States viewed community starting in the early 1960s. Using audio clips from participants in an experimental park and p…
00:38:32 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
6C. Ecological Community At People’s Park
In Episode 3, Anna Goodman explores how a focus on the process of design over its products located community design at the intersection of anti-institutional activism and other social movements. It f…
00:41:28 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
6D. Carl Anthony, Race and Environmentalism
In Episode 4, Molly Esteve describes the life and work of the architect and environmental justice advocate Carl Anthony. Using Anthony’s own words and commentary from Jah Sayers, the episode demonstr…
00:35:23 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
5A. What is Theory?
This piece asks the question: “what is theory?” It begins by attempting to define “theory” as a term or as a concept, a task that involves addressing ideas of abstraction, generalization, science, di…
00:23:33 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
5B. What is Architectural Theory?
This piece asks the question: “what is architectural theory?” It asks what the phrase “architectural theory” names for us, how architectural theory differs from theory per se, and what are its distin…
00:32:19 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
5C. How did Architectural Theory Change over Time?
This piece addresses the question “how has architectural theory changed over time?” In particular, it explores the longue durée of two millennia of architectural writings in the west. In doing so the…
00:25:25 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
5D. Is Architectural Theory Western or Global?
This piece asks “is architectural theory Western or can it be global?” This means asking: is theory universal or is it geographically particular? Is theory inherently linked to Western notions of rea…
00:24:51 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
5E. How do you Teach Architectural Theory?
This piece asks “how do you teach architectural theory?” We ask what are the ways that each person teaches architectural theory in their specific classroom and in their specific school? How do they a…
00:31:09 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
5F. What are Architectural Theory Classes for?
This piece asks “what are architectural theory classes for?” What is the purpose of the architectural theory class in relation to architectural design in the curriculum? What is the purpose of the ar…
00:24:37 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
5G. Is Theory Dead?
This piece asks “is architectural theory dead?” This might seem a strange question to ask given the lengthy discussion throughout the issue. Yet, at the turn of the millennium, a new generation of ar…
00:33:21 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
4B. The Sound of Absence
What is music like without the sound of a space? Historian Emily Thompson discusses the aesthetics, technology and politics of spatial absence at the dawn of the recording era while John and Susan Ed…
00:27:09 |
Sat 06 Jan 2018
4C. Even Better than the Real Thing
In the 1950s, classical record producers were fixated on realism, aspiring to put listeners in the ‘best seat of an acoustically perfect hall.’ Not so for John Culshaw, however, a maverick producer w…
00:29:05 |
Sat 06 Jan 2018
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