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podcasts
A new podcast by Richard Hall explores the enduring influence of OMA on architectural culture.
18 November
Kashef Chowdhury co-founded the Dhaka based firm URBANA in 1995, leading the practice as solo principal since 2005.
film
French Practice Barrault Pressacco presented this year's Rick Mather lecture.
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The Basel-based architects discuss how the "uncertain conditions" of time, weather and landscape have become central to their practice.
What draws young people to study architecture today? And how they imagine their futures in it? This week on Scaffold, we hear from a group of teenagers just beginning to explore the profession.
Reflections on a life of writing and architecture.
Shahed Saleem is in conversation with Neal Shasore, unpacking the themes and ideas of his latest published collection of essays and photographs, Building Futures: The Counter Architecture of the British Mosque.
writing
At Home in London: The Mews House is available now
Foundations for good housing – Beyond style, toward substance
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To mark the 25th Anniversary of the Tate Modern this week, the Architecture Foundation's Director Ellis Woodman speaks with two key figures behind the museum's conception and realisation: Nicholas Serota and Jacques Herzog.
The curator of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale on the questions he's raising about architecture’s evolving role in an increasingly interconnected world.
The co-founder of the New York practice MOS on the the art and literary scenes that catalysed his early work with Hilary Sample, his new podcast series "Building with Writing," and the essay he's developing in praise of smaller architecture.
A Nigerian practice attempts to reimagine the contemporary museum from an African perspective.
From The Politics of Bricolage to Open Havelock: exploring grassroots tactics for urban development.
A young practice seeks aesthetic exuberance and new forms of collectivity while contending with the limitations of the present.
Catch up with commissioned essays including the weekly column written by supporters of the Architecture Foundation