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Luke Jones and George Gingell are hosts of the podcast About Buildings and Cities.

"We’re interested in getting into things that are obscure [in architectural history], but we’re also interested in l…

Ben Bowling is Professor of Criminology at Kings College London, and the son of the celebrated painter Frank Bowling, whose studio he now manages.

"Frank always wanted children, but did not want to be…

Asli Çiçek is an Architect and writer based in Brussels, whose work focuses on scenography and exhibition design.

"Culture is not a luxury. I don’t like populistic discussions about what culture shou…

Charlotte Cooper is the author of Poundbury: a Queer Tour of Monarchy, published earlier this year by 33 Editions.

"One of my bugbears about Poundbury is that it’s not an honest place – it’s pretendi…

Robin Winogrond is a Landscape Architect based in Zurich.

"I try to never look at what I expect to see, but to see in a raw way, in an uninformed way, I try to read space and atmospheres in the most u…

Karin Templin is an architect, educator, and author of the book At Home in London: The Mansion Block, co-published by The Architecture Foundation and MACK.

This book is first in a series on types of …

This episode originally aired in April 2022.

Lesley Lokko is founder of the African Futures Institute and curator of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.

“I don’t see myself as being ‘the future’, b…

Sumayya Vally is a Musilm South African architect, and founder of the practice Counterspace.

“Architecture is abstract, and I think what I’m doing in my practice is making a concerted effort to find …

David Gissen is a New York-based author, designer, and educator who works in the fields of architecture, landscape, and urban design. 

His book, The Architecture of Disability (University of Minnesota…

b+ is a collaborative architecture practice that operates across different media and formats. The practice seeks to engage with challenges of eco-social transformation and adaptive reuse, and to cont…

Julian Opie is an artist based in London.

We create models to deal with the world and to function in the world. It’s how we perceive the world and our own life and existence, drawing from the world a…

Carmody Groarke is an architecture practice based in London.

"This idea of thinness [of surfaces] has to do with pragmatism and thrift, but it's also a contemporary challenge of buildings – now that w…

Albert Williamson Taylor is a design engineer and founder of AKT II.

“The goal has always got to be the project – the design – everything else is just an inconvenience. Even deciding to start a practi…

Albert Williamson Taylor is a design engineer and founder of AKT II.

“The goal has always got to be the project – the design – everything else is just an inconvenience. Even deciding to start a pract…

Thomas Demand is an artist working in Berlin and Los Angeles

"When architects look at my work it’s like when you show your work to your mother – she looks at something completely different than when y…

This episode was recorded in October of 2020, and originally aired in July of 2021.

Esther Choi is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and writer trained in photography and architectural histor…

This episode originally aired in October 2020

Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering.

“Disability knocks at the foundations of individualism …

Thomas Heatherwick is a designer and founder of Heatherwick Studio in London.

"I’m inspired by people who don’t try to impress other people in their profession [...] The people who really matter are t…

Tacita Dean is a visual artist who works in Berlin and Los Angeles

"The direction in which I’m going is never fixed. Because I don’t know where I’m going, I’m very able to change direction. . . only …

Sam Chermayeff is an architect based in Berlin.

"The success of all interiors are specifics – specific wobbles, specific things in the way, specific dirt behind the ears of a house […] It’s wildly ine…