Memes are increasingly permeating architectural discourse, with Instagram accounts like Dank Lloyd Wright “holding models of power to account, especially when power manifests as aesthetics.”The meme itself, in Dank Lloyd Wright’s hands, is a so

Ana Bonet Miro – Fun Palace

Jul 6th, 2022 31m 22s

Since its conception in the 1960’s, the Fun Palace has circulated widely in architecture culture, and mainly through its provocative collages, characterized by giant space-frame trusses framing a flexible shed of interactive cultural events, ac

Markus Lähteenmäki – Monument to the Victims of the Revolution

Jul 6th, 2022 19m 9s

Markus Lateenmaaki’s research explores, in part, how architecture became instrumental in the societal and cultural transformations that took place in revolutionary Russia. It’s worth noting this episode was recorded in early 2022, before the Ru

Mabel O. Wilson – Memorial to Enslaved Labourers, University of Virginia

Jul 6th, 2022 32m 51s

In 2020 The Memorial to Enslaved Labourers opened at the University of Virginia, designed as a collaboration between Höweler+Yoon Architecture, Mabel O. Wilson, landscape architects Gregg Bleam and Frank Dukes, and the artist Eto Otitigbe. As W

Andre Patrao – Chora L Works (Parc de la Villette)

Jul 6th, 2022 23m 59s

Parc de la Villette was emblematic of the strong ties made between the disciplines of architecture and philosophy in the1980's, where “Deconstructivism” in particular became a theoretical framework through which buildings and landscapes were bo

Mark Wallinger – State Britain

Jul 6th, 2022 17m 58s

Much of Mark Wallinger’s art exists in public space. He’s made films and performance pieces set in tube stations and airports, and was the first artist to occupy the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999. In this episode, Wallinger di

Jonas Žukauskas – Forest Parts

Jul 6th, 2022 28m 49s

When we think about public space, we tend to consider the street, the plaza, the park or the square - urban spaces for people to engage in civic life. In this episode Jonas Žukauskas discusses his consideration of the forest as a space of socia

Manuel Herz – Babyn Yar Synagogue

Jul 6th, 2022 17m

Last year the Swiss practice Manuel Herz Architects completed a wooden synagogue West of Kyiv at Babyn Yar, the site of one of the bloodiest massacres of the Second World War.In March 2022, as Russian forces attempted to take Kyiv, missiles onc

Lauren Bon – Bending the River

Jul 6th, 2022 27m 8s

The concrete-lined LA River was built on top of a sprawling floodplain, which the land artist Lauren Bon seeks to reveal through a large-scale infrastructural project called “Bending the River Back to the City”. By diverting a small amount of w

Liza Fior – The Dalston Eastern Curve Garden

Jul 6th, 2022 18m 5s

The Dalston Eastern Curve garden began as a meanwhile scheme, but over the past decade has embedded itself at the centre of one of London’s most rapidly gentrifying neighbourhoods; over time the garden has become an act of resistance against co

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Coming Soon: Power & Public Space

Jun 27th, 2022 47s

Life is more virtual than ever, but in this intensely divided moment, it's arguably our streets, squares, plazas and monuments where power remains most contested. How does a garden become an act of resistance against gentrification? How can an

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