Scaffold
Interviews with architects, artists and designers. Produced by the Architecture Foundation and hosted by Matthew Blunderfield.
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- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 139
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Ep 38: Janina Gosseye
Janina Gosseye is a scholar and co-editor, with Naomi Stead and Deborah Van der Plat, of the recently published Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research. “Architecture has long b…
00:50:37 |
Thu 21 May 2020
Ep 37: David Leech
David Leech is an architect based in London. I don’t have ‘big ideas’ [in my work] - and if I do, I do everything I can to undermine them. I do not want a project to be read in one sentence, or unde…
00:52:54 |
Thu 07 May 2020
Ep 36: Andrew Clancy
Andrew Clancy is a director of the Dublin-based practice Clancy Moore, and Professor of Architecture at the Kingston School of Art. “There isn’t an Irish style, and I don’t really think there is an I…
00:53:31 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Ep 35: Francesca Torzo
Francesca Torzo is an Architect based in Italy.“In all of our projects there is always a construction experiment, but that is never the purpose. It seems that we just land there, to find a solution t…
00:48:55 |
Thu 09 Apr 2020
Ep 34: Geoff Manaugh
Geoff Manaugh is an architecture writer based in Los Angeles. He launched BLDGBLOG in 2004 and is the author most recently of The Burglar's Guide to the City (2016). "Ideas of things to research and …
00:43:28 |
Wed 04 Mar 2020
Ep 33: Michael Maltzan
Michael Maltzan is an architect based in Los Angeles. "I think it’s important to try to anticipate the city in the future […] to speculate about how scale and density is going to change, because arc…
01:06:47 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Ep 32: Natsai Audrey Chieza
Natsai Audrey Chieza is Founding Director of Faber Futures, a multidisciplinary design agency operating at the intersection of nature, technology, and society.“I’m interested in futures, and I’m inte…
00:45:05 |
Thu 06 Feb 2020
Ep 31: John Patkau
John Patkau is an architect based in Vancouver."I always seek out the opposite. I’ve always been interested in architects who are least like me – the ones who are most like me I find objectionable."
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00:55:11 |
Wed 22 Jan 2020
Ep 30: Shumi Bose
Shumi Bose is an architecture teacher, curator and editor."[Curation] is the idea of taking care of a conversation. Whether that conversation is for students, for academic learning, or whether its fo…
00:46:46 |
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Ep 29: Tom Kundig
Tom Kundig is a director of the Seattle-based architecture practice Olson Kundig."I think there is this danger in architecture, that it becomes so self referential and circular in its myopic position…
00:51:05 |
Thu 26 Sep 2019
Ep 28: Farshid Moussavi
Farshid Moussavi is an architect and educator based in London. "I’m interested in buildings, not architects. The building is independent once the architect is gone, and that’s when the building becom…
00:45:13 |
Wed 11 Sep 2019
Ep 3: Charlotte Cooper
Charlotte Cooper is a Psychotherapist, Cultural Worker and Fat Activist. “The therapy I do, and maybe therapy in general enables people to think about their lives in ways they hadn’t considered befor…
00:51:22 |
Tue 27 Aug 2019
Ep 27: Deyan Sudjic
Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum in London “A friend of mine once said to me no magazine you’ll ever want to read will ever sell more than 8000 copies a month […] What was startling to f…
00:45:12 |
Tue 13 Aug 2019
Ep 26: David Kohn
David Kohn is an architect based in London. “The contemporary economies of architectural production inevitably tend toward the shed. The shed is this panacea - everything can be a shed. […] We can n…
00:58:13 |
Tue 30 Jul 2019
Ep 25: Omer Arbel
Omer Arbel is an architect and industrial designer based in Vancouver.“When I talk about the receding of ego in my work, that is the method - I encourage materials to teach me, but there’s obviously …
00:53:58 |
Wed 17 Jul 2019
Ep 24: Mary Duggan
Mary Duggan was a founding partner of Duggan Morris Architects, and established Mary Duggan Architects in 2017. “I think [architects] are obsessed with justification, but sometimes in architecture yo…
00:57:20 |
Wed 08 May 2019
Ep 23: John 'Sinx' Sinclair
John ‘Sinx’ Sinclair is a founding partner of the digital product design studio ustwo. “It’s the functionality of something rather than the aesthetics of something that pleases me. Software lends its…
01:07:37 |
Wed 24 Apr 2019
Ep 22: Lütjens Padmanabhan
Lütjens Padmanabhan are an architecture practice based in Zurich. “How do you deal with the cheapening of the building, where the value and architectural significance of the building was once based o…
01:14:07 |
Wed 10 Apr 2019
Ep 21: Tom Emerson
Tom Emerson is a founding director of 6a architects. “One of the positions that [my teaching] takes is to not distinguish between architecture - the constructed world - and nature […] Somehow to look…
01:13:15 |
Wed 27 Mar 2019
Ep 20: Mill & Jones
Anna Mill and Luke Jones are authors of the graphic novel Square Eyes. “The future city still has to get designed somehow, and augmented reality is not settled - they need more ideas. In terms of spe…
00:47:28 |
Thu 14 Mar 2019
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