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Nicholas Gardner and Saša Štucin founded the design practice Soft Baroque in 2013, and are currently based in Ljubljana.

“For us, the satisfaction of buying something pales in comparison to even push…

Richard Wentworth is an artist based in London.

"Without feeling sorry for myself, I feel like a bit of a misfit […] I don’t really have a tidy sense of where [I belong]. I want to be effective. I wo…

Moshe Safdie is an architect based in Boston who first came to prominence through his Habitat 67 project, a modular housing prototype constructed for the Montreal Expo in 1967. Safdie's memoir, If Wa…

Deem Journal co-founders Nu Goteh, Alice Grandoit and Marquise Stillwell discuss an expanded definition of design as a social process.

“publishing is a ritual act of listening, and for us we’re reall…

Flores & Prats are an architecture practice based in Barcelona.

“The theatre and the common spaces are the same experience. Going to the theatre is not getting into a room where you suddenly forget t…

Introducing Power & Public Space, a new podcast from Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation.

This episode features a conversation with professor Mabel O. Wilson on the Memorial to Enslaved La…

Max Pinckers is a photographer based in Brussels.

“The subject and themes [of my photographs] are a reflection of how I see photography, or how I want to deal with photography - the subject matter is …

Freek Persyn is professor of architecture and urban transformation at ETH in Zurich, and together with Johan Anrys and Peter Swinnen founded the practice 51N4E in 1998. 

“Architecture is not often tal…

Carla Juacaba is a Brazilian architect based in London. 

“I’m compelled by theatre for its impermanence, that things end, in a way that it’s not even possible to record; it’s very fascinating to see t…

Asif Khan is a designer of buildings, landscapes, exhibitions and installations. 

“It’s helpful sometimes to think that architecture is made up. All of this cannon, all of this writing, all of this sc…

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’, but the expanded field [of architecture] that…

James Taylor Foster is a writer and curator of contemporary architecture and design at ArkDes. 

"When I think about curatorial practice I start to think about what it means to nest in the complexity o…

Paloma Gormley is a founding director of both Practise Architecture and Material Cultures, bringing together design, research and action towards a post carbon built environment.

"There’s an inherent t…

Takeshi Hayatsu is an architect based in London and founding director of Hayatsu Architects.

“ …That sort of fear, and darkness beyond our control that exists in the natural world is something we’ve …