
8M. Coda: Pluralism Is Not Enough
In this episode, titled “Pluralism is Not Enough,” Joseph Bedford offers some provisional thoughts interpreting the situation of this genera...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsOpening Radio and Podcast...

Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast shows and categories...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast episodes...
Attention is an audio journal for architectural culture that uses the medium of sound and spoken word to capture a dimension of architecture otherwise lost in print. By precluding visual med...

In this episode, titled “Pluralism is Not Enough,” Joseph Bedford offers some provisional thoughts interpreting the situation of this genera...

In this episode, Tim Cox reflects on this issue of attention, and reads the aesthetic and ideological output of the interviewees as in conve...

In this episode we hear from this generation on their experience with building practice in contemporary America. The cohort is focused on mo...

In this episode we address the affordances and constraints of architectural academia. This generation highlights the important freedom acade...

In this episode, we heard this generation struggle with their ambivalence around the discipline of architecture, which they saw as essential...

In this episode, our discussion of contemporary architectural theory is framed by the question of why there is no contemporary discipline-de...

In this episode, we hear about the lack of ideological debate and disagreement within contemporary academic architectural culture. This gene...

In this episode, we address the political context of the interviews: the after effects of 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd uprising...

In this episode, we hear about the difficulty of constructing coherent aesthetic camps in this generation, exemplified by responses to Micha...

In this episode we hear from this generation on their relationship to the digital. They discuss broad, societal experiences like watching th...

In this episode we trace the genealogies of this generation through academic lineages, their movements through the geography of American Aca...

In this introduction we hear from Joseph Bedford addressing what this issue is about, who he interviewed, what their work is about, what que...

In this episode we hear from the group of American academic architects that has been brought together by this issue of attention. The group...
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the investigative journalist and veteran beat reporter Caryn Dolley about the use of biometric and...
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the artist, puzzle-maker, and escape room designer Laura E. Hall about the design of escape rooms...
In this episode, Megan Eardley introduces Issue 7 by relating contemporary spatial practices to the literary detective story and present day...
In this episode, Megan Eardley invites listeners to reflect on the way that detective work operates between form and event. She interviews t...
Like proof, evidence typically refers to things, traces, marks, or signs, that can be studied to establish relevant facts and evaluate compe...
In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the writer and artist Bryan Finoki. He describes how he came to study the security industry and re...
This episode presents Dark Freqs, an original sound piece by Bryan Finoki. Please note that the piece incorporates recordings of police brut...

In Episode 1, Anna Goodman explains how contemporary architects in the United States often pursue community-engaged work through the design...

In Episode 2, Anna Goodman describes a shift in the way architects in the United States viewed community starting in the early 1960s. Using...

In Episode 3, Anna Goodman explores how a focus on the process of design over its products located community design at the intersection of a...

In Episode 4, Molly Esteve describes the life and work of the architect and environmental justice advocate Carl Anthony. Using Anthony’s own...
This piece asks the question: “what is theory?” It begins by attempting to define “theory” as a term or as a concept, a task that involves a...
This piece asks the question: “what is architectural theory?” It asks what the phrase “architectural theory” names for us, how architectural...
This piece addresses the question “how has architectural theory changed over time?” In particular, it explores the longue durée of two mille...
This piece asks “is architectural theory Western or can it be global?” This means asking: is theory universal or is it geographically partic...
This piece asks “how do you teach architectural theory?” We ask what are the ways that each person teaches architectural theory in their spe...
This piece asks “what are architectural theory classes for?” What is the purpose of the architectural theory class in relation to architectu...
This piece asks “is architectural theory dead?” This might seem a strange question to ask given the lengthy discussion throughout the issue....
The introductory audio essay illuminates four aspects of sound in physical space—location, size, reverberation and environmental noise—with...
What is music like without the sound of a space? Historian Emily Thompson discusses the aesthetics, technology and politics of spatial absen...
In the 1950s, classical record producers were fixated on realism, aspiring to put listeners in the ‘best seat of an acoustically perfect hal...
The pianist Glenn Gould was dogmatic about his recording setup, placing the microphone as close as possible to his piano to exclude the soun...
One day, while practicing the prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite #1, Yasuaki Shimizu accidentally ran his tenor saxophone through a reverb machin...
Bad acoustics inspired Daniel Neumann to become a composer and sound artist. After struggling to tame echoes, flutter and too much reverbera...
This piece addresses the term “Postmodernism” its history, legacy, and use within the discourse of architecture.
This piece addresses the term idea and practice of collecting as a current trope within architectural culture.
This piece addresses the concept and practice of composition in architectural design. Formerly dominant in Beaux-Arts education and somewhat...
This piece addresses contemporary attitudes towards the idea of kitsch within the academy and architectural practice.
This piece addresses the concept of figuration in architectural discourse today.
This piece addresses the practice of critique as it still operates within architectural design culture today. It taps a new generation of pr...
This piece addresses the concept of delight in architectural discourse today.
This piece addresses the idea of discipline in architectural discourse today.
This piece addresses the concept of weirdness in architectural discourse today.
This round-table conversation between Stan Allen, Jesse Reiser and Michael Meredith addressed the personal experiences of the participants o...
This interview with Axel Kilian and Sigrid Adriaenssens addressed the idea of form-finding in architectural design.
This interview with Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi addressed their project The Formless Finder.
This interview with the art historian James Meyer about formalism in minimalist art. The interview discussed his historical work on minimali...