47. Special Edition Conversation with Vikram Prakash

“…I see my job as to critique it, and undo it, and re-work it, and re-image it in a shared construction of self…with my students, with my colleagues, to imagine a new project of being and architectural thinking…”

For the season finale of ArchitectureTalk, we put our esteemed host, Vikram Prakash in the hot seat in a special edition conversation lead by ArchitectureTalk veteran, Ayad Rahmani!

Timestamp Outline

1:59 On conversation
2:23 Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Sherry Turkle  
4:11 The Art of The Crit
8:39 Architecture and Fashion 
9:04 Alexander McQueen
12:03 Adolf Loos
13:56 “…this notion that, we need to rid ourselves of our hangups about what makes us human.”-AR
Referencing Alexander McQueen here, whose work often explored this idea, specifically in the collections: The Birds, Voss,  Widows of Culloden, Horn of Plenty, and  La Dame Bleue see also: Kate Bethune’s Encyclopedia of Collections [PDF]
20:09 Critique of the anthropocentric 
20:40 On Vikram’s personal fashion
21:20 The Nehru Jacket
27:00 “…I see my job to critique it, and undo it, and re-work it, and re-image it in a shared construction of self…with my students, with my colleagues, to imagine a new project of being and architectural thinking…”-VP
28:10 Vikram’s scholarship regarding Chandigarh 
30:50 Translation and corruption
36:57 Modernism and critiquing Critical Regionalism 
39:53 GAHTC
46:13 “…native American history connects this area [Seattle] to Japanese History, to Salmon cultures of Japan, the Jōmon…”-VP