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General History September 6, 2023

After Work

A History of the Home and the Fight for Free Time

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile …

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Interviews with architects and scholars of architecture about their new books.

Architecture September 3, 2023

Organized Living

Solutions and Inspiration for Your Home

Shira Gill

Hosted by Meg Gambino
In Organized Living: Solutions and Inspiration for Your Home (Ten Speed Press, 2023), Gill takes us on a global tour of home organizers learning organizing protips along the way. Kickstart …
British Studies August 23, 2023

How the Country House Became English

Stephanie Barczewski

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Stephanie Barczewski is an exploration of the evolution of the quintessentially English country house. Country houses have come to be …
Public Policy August 7, 2023

Housing for Hope and Wellbeing

Flora Samuel

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
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Housing and neighborhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. Housing for Hope and Wellbeing (Routledge, 2023), written for …
Irish Studies July 30, 2023

Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815

Finola O'Kane

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815 (Yale University Press, 2023) by Dr. Finola O’Kane explores how revolutionary ideas were translated into landscape design, encompassing liberty …
Anthropology July 19, 2023

Architectures of Hope

Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing

Moisés Kopper

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Moisés Kopper's Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing (U Michigan Press, 2022) examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer markets made first-time …
Architecture July 8, 2023

Ecologies of Inception

Design Potentials on a Warming Planet

Simone Ferracina

Hosted by Bryan Toepfer
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Responding to increasing levels of planetary pollution, waste generation, carbon dioxide emission and environmental collapse, Simone Ferracina's book Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet (Routledge, 2022) re-thinks potentiality―an …
MIT Press Podcast July 8, 2023

Ambient Commons

Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

Malcolm McCullough

Hosted by MIT Press
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The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere …
MIT Press Podcast June 28, 2023

Bleak Houses

Disappointment and Failure in Architecture

Timothy Brittain-Catlin

Hosted by MIT Press
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The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures …
Nomads, Past and Present June 21, 2023

Constant’s “New Babylon"

An Interview with Jérémie McGowan

Jérémie McGowan

Hosted by Maggie Freeman
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“New Babylon” is an architectural and urban planning project designed by the Dutch artist Constant Nieuwenhuys between 1959 and 1974 in response to certain economic and social conditions he perceived …
Peoples & Things June 19, 2023

The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures

A Conversation with Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange

Hosted by Lee Vinsel
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Writer and design critic Alexandra Lange talks about her book, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Shopping Mall (Bloombury, 2023), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Meet …
Middle Eastern Studies June 17, 2023

Dwelling on the Green Line

Gabriel Schwake

Hosted by Roberto Mazza
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Today I talked to Gabriel Schwake about his book Dwelling on the Green Line (Cambridge UP, 2022). Concealed within the walls of settlements along the Green-Line, the border between Israel and …
Sports June 7, 2023

Mallparks

Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption

Michael T. Friedman

Hosted by Emilio Weber
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In Mallparks: Baseball Stadiums and the Culture of Consumption (Cornell UP, 2023), Michael T. Friedman observes that as cathedrals represented power relations in medieval towns and skyscrapers epitomized those within …
Architecture June 4, 2023

The Story of Follies

Architectures of Eccentricity

Celia Fisher

Hosted by Miranda Melcher
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In The Story of Follies: Architectures of Eccentricity (Reaktion, 2023), Celia Fisher presents an amusing, informative guide to a fanciful and charming building, the folly. Are they frivolous or practical …
MIT Press Podcast May 26, 2023

Publishing in Art, Architecture and Visual Culture

A Discussion with Thomas Weaver and Victoria Hindley

Thomas Weaver and Victoria Hindley

Hosted by MIT Press
This episode features discussions with Thomas Weaver (Senior Acquisitions Editor for Art and Architecture) and Victoria Hindley (Acquisitions Editor in Visual Culture and Design) about publishing in the fields of …
MIT Press Podcast May 20, 2023

Infrastructural Brutalism

Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure

Michael Truscello

Hosted by MIT Press
Michael Truscello, author of Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure, discusses the ways in which infrastructure determines who may live and who must die under contemporary capitalism. In …
Intellectual History May 16, 2023

Think Tank Aesthetics

Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present

Pamela M. Lee

Hosted by Piotr Kosicki
In her groundbreaking and timely book Think Tank Aesthetics: Midcentury Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present (MIT Press, 2020), distinguished art historian Pamela M. Lee poses fundamental questions …
Japanese Studies May 16, 2023

Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan

Garrett L. Washington

Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Garrett Washington’s Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan (Hawai’i 2022) brings a fresh perspective to the question of Protestant Christianity’s outsized influence in modernizing Japan from almost the …
Technology May 8, 2023

Extinct

A Compendium of Obsolete Objects

Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner, and Miranda Critchley

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
So-called extinct objects are those that were imagined but were never in use, or that existed but are now unused—superseded, unfashionable, or simply forgotten. Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects …
MIT Press Podcast April 16, 2023

The Garage: A History

Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

Hosted by MIT Press
On this episode of the MIT Press podcast, Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela discuss their book, Garage. Frank Lloyd Wright invented the garage when he moved the automobile out …