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Architecture April 16, 2021

Gardens at the Frontier

New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes

James Beattie

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes (Routledge, 2019) addresses broad issues of interest to architectural historians, environmental historians, garden writers, geographers, and other …

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Art April 6, 2021

The Making of the American Creative Class

New York's Culture Workers and Twentieth-Century Consumer Capitalism

Shannan Clark

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparalleled in the history of the United States …
Architecture April 5, 2021

The Bird-Friendly City

Creating Safe Urban Habitats

Timothy Beatley

Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities at the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for over twenty-five years. His primary …
Architecture March 30, 2021

Social Media for Architects

Enoch B. Sears

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Today I talked to Enoch Sears about his short ebook Social Media for Architects. The book details how architects can use social media for lead generation through didactic examples, commentary and case …
Architecture March 12, 2021

Material Transfers

Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture

Francoise Bollack

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
In Material Transfers: Metaphor, Craft, and Place in Contemporary Architecture (Monacelli Press, 2020), architect, architectural historian, and preservationist Françoise Bollack presents eighteen projects that use traditional materials to build contemporary forms or …
Mobilities and Methods March 10, 2021

Building Socialism

The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam

Christina Schwenkel

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German …
Architecture February 19, 2021

How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940

Thomas C. Hubka

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light, ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 1940, electric lights, dining rooms …
Architecture February 12, 2021

The Figure of Knowledge

Conditioning Architectural Theory, 1960s - 1990s

Sebastiaan Loosen, Rajesh Heynickx, and Hilde Heynen

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologizing effort during the 1990s charted …
Architecture February 11, 2021

Architecture in Global Socialism

Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War

Łukasz Stanek

Hosted by Sharika Crawford
In the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in a vibrant collaboration with those in West Africa and the Middle East …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 10, 2021

Moscow Monumental

Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital

Katherine Zubovich

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital (Princeton University Press, 2021), Professor Katherine Zubovich of the University of Buffalo of the State University of New York …
Architecture February 2, 2021

Estate Regeneration

Learning from the Past, Housing Communities of the Future

Brendan Kilpatrick and Manisha Patel

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
One hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead to the most prolific phases of …
Architecture January 15, 2021

Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession

Yasser Megahed

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Practiceopolis: Stories from the Architectural Profession (Routledge, 2020) is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an imaginary …
Architecture January 6, 2021

Modern Architecture and Climate

Design Before Air Conditioning

Daniel A. Barber

Hosted by Nushelle de Silva
Modern Architecture and Climate explores how leading architects of the twentieth century incorporated climate-mediating strategies into their designs, and shows how regional approaches to climate adaptability were essential to the …
Anthropology January 5, 2021

Black Lives and Spatial Matters

Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis

Jodi Rios

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom in Suburban St. Louis (Cornell University Press, 2020), Dr. Jodi Rios examines relationships between blackness, space, and racism, in …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel January 4, 2021

Till We Have Built Jerusalem

Architects of a New City

Adina Hoffman

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
A remarkable view of one of the world's most beloved and troubled cities, Adina Hoffman's Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City (FSG, 2017) is a gripping …
Architecture December 15, 2020

Architecture for the Commons

Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms

Jose Sanchez

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms (Routledge, 2020) dives into an analysis of how the tectonics of a building is fundamentally linked to the economic organizations …
Asian Review of Books December 3, 2020

Stealing from the Saracens

How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe

Diana Darke

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
Visitors around the world have travelled to Europe to see the tall spires and stained glass windows of the continent’s Gothic cathedrals: in Cologne, Chartres, Milan, Florence, York and Paris …
Architecture November 27, 2020

Making Architecture Through Being Human

A Handbook of Design Ideas

Philip D. Plowright

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Architecture can seem complicated, mysterious or even ill-defined, especially to a student being introduced to architectural ideas for the first time. One way to approach architecture is simply as the …
Architecture November 16, 2020

The Urban Fix

Resilient Cities in the War Against Climate Change, Heat Islands and Overpopulation

Douglas Kelbaugh

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
Cities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban centers use large amounts of resources adds to the global crisis and …
East Asian Studies November 11, 2020

Where Dragon Veins Meet

The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe

Stephen H. Whiteman

Hosted by Suvi Rautio
In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s …