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Architecture
Interviews with architects and scholars of architecture about their new books.
November 20, 2024
Walking East Harlem
They call it Spanish Harlem or sometimes just El Barrio. But for over a century, East Harlem has been a melting pot of many ethnic groups, including P…
November 15, 2024
The Architecture of Urbanity
From one of today's most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challenges…
October 31, 2024
Shiva's Waterfront Temples
The vibrant red sandstone temples of India's Deccan Plateau, such as the Pattadakal temple cluster, have attracted visitors since the eighth century o…
October 27, 2024
Paris, Cuba, and David from Any Direction
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Lucy Benjamin. Dr Lucy Benjamin is a researcher in architectural theory and creative practice. Her work focuses on…
October 22, 2024
Smooth City
In cities across the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly: an ever-increasing push toward efficiency, sanitization, surveillance and the …
October 18, 2024
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City
In the space of about two decades, five major parks were proposed, designed, and created in Paris. Some emerged from competitions between professional…
October 4, 2024
The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s
Today I talked to Anat Geva about The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s-1960s (Texas A&M UP, 2023). There is no one mandate on how to…
September 30, 2024
Times Square Remade
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is it that, despite its many changes of character, the…
September 18, 2024
The Architecture of Good Behavior
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the fed…
August 17, 2024
Isfahan
A vibrant urban settlement from mediaeval times and the royal seat of the Safavid dynasty, the city of Isfahan emerged as a great metropolis during th…
August 10, 2024
The Search for Shelter
The Search for Shelter: Writings on Land and Housing (Oxford UP, 2022) sheds light on the global population living in slums, which has increased from …
August 3, 2024
Small Spaces
Swati Chattopadhyay's book Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2023) recasts the history of the British empire by focusing…
August 1, 2024
Everyday Architecture in Context
How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing politi…
June 19, 2024
Emergent Tokyo
If ancient Kyoto stands for orderly elegance, then Tokyo, within the world’s most populated metropolitan area, calls to mind–– jam-packed chaos. But i…
March 14, 2024
A Bittersweet Heritage
The 2020 toppling of slave-trader Edward Colston's statue by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol was a dramatic reminder of Britain's role in tra…
March 12, 2024
Swimming Pool
This instalment of the Object Lessons series focuses on the Swimming Pool (Bloomsbury, 2024). The book explores the pool as a place where humans seek…
March 8, 2024
Air Conditioning
Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, menta…
February 15, 2024
Politics in the Crevices
In Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (Duke UP, 2023), Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into …
February 11, 2024
Hitler’s Northern Utopia
In her new book Hitler’s Northern Utopia: Building the New Order in Occupied Norway (Princeton University Press, 2020), Despina Stratigakos investigat…
January 7, 2024
Building Mid-Republican Rome
Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018), offers a holistic treatment of the developme…