On Lightness
investigating the fragile as a means to tackle the unbearable heavyness of our built environment
- Update frequency
- every 23 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 5
- Years Active
- 2025
4. The Industrial Designer: Christian Borger
In this episode of “On Lightness” I am having a conversation with architect and industrial designer Christian Borger (aka @see_borg). We are talking about what lightness means to him, how he stumbled…
3. The Architect: Nicolas Dorval-Bory
In this episode of “On Lightness” I am talking to Nicolas Dorval-Bory, who was recently announced Director of the ENSA Versailles Architecture School. He is based in Paris, where we met in his archit…
2. The Archineer: Christoph Gengnagel
In this episode of “On Lightness” I am talking to Dr. Christoph Gengnagel, who is both partner at Bollinger+Grohmann Engineers and professor and researcher at the architecture and urbanism department…
1. The Botanist: Dr. Thomas Speck
In this episode, I am talking to Dr. Prof. Thomas Speck about the meaning of lightness in the field of biology, exploring topics like the material efficiency of nature, biomimicry, half-timbered hous…
Introduction
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