World Architecture Festival Podcast

Given the complex challenges for designers in respect of climate, biodiversity and demography, collaboration has become an increasingly important factor in the creation of design and delivery teams, …

Buildings and the built environment are designed and constructed according to measurable, quantifiable and gradable standards, yet a community’s interaction with their environment is not measured, or…

As an industry we have focussed for decades on reducing operational carbon in our buildings and the tools and methods are well understood. But what does the reduction in CO2 emissions from our power …

A panel discussion on The Drawing Prize

Speakers -

Lily Jencks, Keeper of Vision at The Cosmic House, The Jencks Foundation

Ken Shuttleworth, Founder, Make Architects

Eldry John Infante, Registered and L…

There is a clear urgency to redesign cities in the face of fast-growing global urban population, urban sprawl and climate change to prioritise nature conservation, human livability and human progress…

Housing affordability around the world has reached a crisis point. Against the backdrop of rapid urbanization and an accelerating environmental emergency, we need solutions for city building that are…

Mario Cucinella’s forthcoming talk "The Future is a Journey to the Past", will explore past and present notions of sustainability to develop the ecological thinking necessary to bridge the divide bet…

Following the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake in February, Türkiye Design Council is spearheading the design-led revitalisation of Hatay and Adıyaman in Türkiye’s southeast. With a rare example f…

Singapore transformation is built upon housing, parks and renewal. Going forward we need to include Super Connectors. From Settlements to Towns to Cities to Conurbations one can see changes exerted b…

Charu Kokate of Safdie Architects will delve into what drives a successful architecture practice for the WAF opening keynote. She will discuss transformative projects she has been intimately involved…

LECTURE 

Resilient Architecture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Issa Diabaté, Partner, Koffi & Diabaté Architects

Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival

This episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2…

Business Stream - Delivery Part Two

Exploring and understanding the business of architecture 

Tadahiko Murao, Executive Officer, Nikken Sekkei 

Jan Henckens, Senior Manager, Global Business Development …

Hospitals: An Evolving Typology

With the COVID 19 pandemic raging around the world, health design is at the forefront of many people's minds, whether or not they are in the health field. While we've s…

Business Stream - Nurturing and Developing Talent: 

Exploring and understanding the business of architecture 

Kim Herforth Nielsen, Co-Founder & Principal, 3XN Architects

James von Klemperer, President …

Post Covid Shopping: Retail Reloaded

Laurie Chetwood will be looking at how the current challenges facing the High Street are an opportunity for designers to participate in repurposing redundant town …

Thinkspace

Design, the Environment & Public Health

Professor Nick Tyler, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering |Director, UCL Centre for Transport Studies

Professor Allyson Pollock, Director, Newcastl…

WAF Keynote: Prototypes for the Future

We live in extraordinary times and, in many ways, the challenges facing cities, cultures and the planet have never been greater. Some have speculated that the gl…

Business Stream - Delivery Part One

The Business of Architecture: Project Managing Art

The business of architecture is often a struggle between the designers who want to design and the managers who wan…

Post Covid Schools: How the Pandemic can Lead to Better Schools

Following on from alma-nac's publication 'Simple Solutions for Safer Schools' Chris will be talking about some of the ways schools in En…

Business Stream - Winning Work

The ability to win work in our hypercompetitive, post-Covid world is a skill architects need now more than ever. This session will focus on the criteria that clients, i…