“What do you want to be, brick?”
Hosted By Vikram Prakash
Produced by Amelia Jarvinen
Graphic Design by Tori Haynes
Research and Timestamp by Thorey Munro
previously produced by Sami Prouty
First producer on the show and co-creator of the podcast: Sadie Wechsler
[cross-disciplinary conversations with the built environment]
ArchitectureTalk is dedicated to the task of undisciplinizing architecture. It seeks a way to bring new imaginings to how we live.
It is curated by Vikram Prakash, Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA.
About the opening.
ArchitectureTalk begins with recordings of three architects in the following order:
“Architecture is really the art and science of turning fiction into fact,” is Bjarke Ingels, discussing his combined power plant and ski slope in Denmark;
”Sometimes real architectural life interferes with intellectual architectural life,” is Rem Koolhaas in conversation with Hubert-Jan Henket;
and then, most dramatically, “There is no such thing…as architecture!” is Louis Kahn at the Aspen Conference of 1972. Kahn of course goes on, however, to vigorously defend the “spirit of architecture”!