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New Books in South Asian StudiesChandigarhChandigarh is the shared capital city of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, built under the leadership of modernist and brutalist architect Le Corbusier, as an emblem of the postcolonial Indian nation state as visualized by the first Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It was a repudiation of the imperialist architectural style, and for Le Corbusier a personal revenge project after his dissatisfactions with how he was treated during his planning for the United Nations building in New York. Vikramaditya Parakash says that it is a misconception that Chandigarh was built as a blueprint for a future utopia...2025-02-0419 min

New Books in ArchitectureChandigarhChandigarh is the shared capital city of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, built under the leadership of modernist and brutalist architect Le Corbusier, as an emblem of the postcolonial Indian nation state as visualized by the first Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It was a repudiation of the imperialist architectural style, and for Le Corbusier a personal revenge project after his dissatisfactions with how he was treated during his planning for the United Nations building in New York. Vikramaditya Parakash says that it is a misconception that Chandigarh was built as a blueprint for a future utopia...2025-02-0419 min

New Books in Urban StudiesChandigarhChandigarh is the shared capital city of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, built under the leadership of modernist and brutalist architect Le Corbusier, as an emblem of the postcolonial Indian nation state as visualized by the first Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It was a repudiation of the imperialist architectural style, and for Le Corbusier a personal revenge project after his dissatisfactions with how he was treated during his planning for the United Nations building in New York. Vikramaditya Parakash says that it is a misconception that Chandigarh was built as a blueprint for a future utopia...2025-02-0419 min

High TheoryChandigarhChandigarh is the shared capital city of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana, built under the leadership of modernist and brutalist architect Le Corbusier, as an emblem of the postcolonial Indian nation state as visualized by the first Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It was a repudiation of the imperialist architectural style, and for Le Corbusier a personal revenge project after his dissatisfactions with how he was treated during his planning for the United Nations building in New York. Vikramaditya Parakash says that it is a misconception that Chandigarh was built as a blueprint for a future utopia...2025-02-0419 min

ArchitectureTalk156. Modernism, Utopia, and Living the Catastrophe with Anthony Vidler As we kick off our new season on ArchitectureTalk, we are bringing back our conversation with Anthony Vidler: Modernism, Utopia, and Living the Catastrophe. Anthony Vidler (1941-October 19, 2023) was an architectural historian, role model, and friend who will be missed dearly.2025-01-231h 02

LivXplore - Real Estate & LifestyleExploring Sustainable Living and Urban Design with Paul FritzJoin us on the 15-Minute Village Podcast with host Sean Payne and Isaiah Chass as we dive into the fascinating world of urban design and sustainable living. In this episode, we are thrilled to welcome Paul Fritz of Fritz Architecture, a visionary in the realm of urban planning and architecture. With over two decades of experience in Sebastopol, Paul shares his unique insights on a community-centric, walkable lifestyle. We discuss the challenges and opportunities in affordable housing, the evolution of urban spaces, and the concept of the 15-minute village. Paul also sheds light on the significance of thoughtful urban...2023-12-2051 min

ArchitectureTalk146. Modernism, Utopia, and Living Catastrophe with Anthony Vidler As we kick off our new season on ArchitectureTalk, we are bringing back our conversation with Anthony Vidler: Modernism, Utopia, and Living Catastrophe. Anthony Vidler (1941-October 19, 2023) was an architectural historian, role model, and friend who will be missed dearly.2023-11-151h 02

ArchitectureTalk128. Comparing Connections in the Ethosphere with Ambrose Gillick (Part I) Kicking off our new season of ArchitectureTalk, we engage in a conversation with Ambrose Gillick. Gillick shares his interest and findings in participatory and community-led architecture through a collaborative project with self-organising women's- co-op in Dakar, Senegal, and theory of sacred space in medieval church architecture.2022-09-281h 06

Over The Wire Podcast120. Part 1: Mental Landscapes and the Architectural Archipelagos of Indian Modernism with William J.R. Curtis Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: 120. Part 1: Mental Landscapes and the Architectural Archipelagos of Indian Modernism with William J.R. CurtisPub date: 2022-02-03Notes from Over The Wire Podcast:Exploring the life and work of Aditya Prakash, the nature and production of Modernism in India, and today's guest’s own engagement with Indian Modernism.Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curti...2022-02-191h 00

The Intellectual120. Part 1: Mental Landscapes and the Architectural Archipelagos of Indian Modernism with William J.R. Curtis Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: 120. Part 1: Mental Landscapes and the Architectural Archipelagos of Indian Modernism with William J.R. CurtisPub date: 2022-02-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curtis and his reading of the narrative of Indian Modernism. Part one of a two part series, Curtis and Prakash focus today’s conversation on the life and work of Aditya Prakash, the nature and produ...2022-02-151h 00

The Gyaan ProjectEp. 204 - Synthesis of standardisation with Neelkanth ChhayaProf. Neelkanth Chhaya - Architect, academician, and thinker, Neelkanth Chhaya has researched and worked extensively in the domain of appropriate architecture for India. He has documented places of historic significance and authored numerous critical papers. He retired in 2013 as the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, at CEPT, Ahmedabad after a 24-year teaching sojourn at the School.Before we begin, a quick shout out to Ruturaj Parikh from Matter in Goa for introducing me to these brilliant minds from the world of architecture and education. I also wanna say hi to Ayaz...2020-12-0156 min

The Gyaan ProjectSynthesis of standardization with Neelkanth ChhayaProf. Neelkanth Chhaya - Architect, academician, and thinker, Neelkanth Chhaya has researched and worked extensively in the domain of appropriate architecture for India. He has documented places of historic significance and authored numerous critical papers. He retired in 2013 as the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, at CEPT, Ahmedabad after a 24-year teaching sojourn at the School.Before we begin, a quick shout out to Ruturaj Parikh from Matter in Goa for introducing me to these brilliant minds from the world of architecture and education. I also wanna say hi to Ayaz...2020-12-0156 min

The Gyaan ProjectEp. 188 - Spark of pedagogy with Prem ChandavarkarQuestionsWhat is your definition of education? How has it changed over the last 30-40 years?Referring back to the introduction, I spoke about edifice. Do you see any relation between the etymology of the words, Education and Architecture?What is the link between being civil and being educated?In the current pedagogical system, what is your argument? How much theory versus how much practical?What is the long term future of education in India?I recently had a small revelation, that why have I interviewed so many...2020-08-1243 min

The Gyaan Project33: Spark of pedagogy with Prem ChandavarkarQuestionsWhat is your definition of education? How has it changed over the last 30-40 years?Referring back to the introduction, I spoke about edifice. Do you see any relation between the etymology of the words, Education and Architecture?What is the link between being civil and being educated?In the current pedagogical system, what is your argument? How much theory versus how much practical?What is the long term future of education in India?I recently had a small revelation, that why have I interviewed so many...2020-08-1243 min

Politics of COVID-19 Podcast - The Syllabus72. AITC: Inequities and Political Urgencies with Mark Wigley Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: 72. AITC: Inequities and Political Urgencies with Mark WigleyPub date: 2020-05-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week we continue our ongoing miniseries Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with guest Mark Wigley, Professor and Dean Emeritus at Columbia GSAPP. In this episode, we dissect how the Corona virus reinforces social inequities, how it changes the ways in which we communicate, what it means to live in a city during a pand...2020-05-311h 02

Politics of COVID-19 Podcast - The Syllabus70. AITC: The Intersections of Music and Urbanism with Tanya Wells of Seven Eyes Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: 70. AITC: The Intersections of Music and Urbanism with Tanya Wells of Seven EyesPub date: 2020-05-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week, in our ongoing series Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus, we sit down with Tanya Wells of the musical act Seven Eyes to discuss the intersections of music and architecture. We ask about her catalogue of experiences during this global pandemic, the cross-culturality of their music, and her transnational upbringing tha...2020-05-1653 min

Politics of COVID-19 Podcast - The Syllabus67. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Perry Kulper Podcast: ArchitectureTalk (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: 67. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Perry KulperPub date: 2020-04-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Image: Central California History Museum: Proto-Formal Section by Perry Kulper 2006 What is architecture and what is its frontier of thinking in the time of Corona virus? This week, we talk with architect and architectural thinker Perry Kulper about his work methods, inspirations, drawing techniques, and thoughts on the current pandemic. 2020-04-2448 min

City Road Podcast41. Architecture Post-NationWhat makes up a nation? In the 21st century, nationalist frames are giving way to new interpretations of the global. Dr Jennifer Ferng speaks with Professor Vikram Prakash and Professor Julie Willis about the Encyclopedia of Australian architecture, national identity, and the obstacles to capturing selected moments of history. Prakash and Willis speak about the tensions between the national and the global. They share personal experiences about how they each came to study Australian architecture and India’s architecture as well as how their roles in universities have come to shape their trajectories as academics and intellectual leaders. Guests Vikram Pr...2019-09-1737 min

ArchitectureTalk47. Special Edition conversation with Vikram Prakash 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! 2019-07-0350 min

ArchitectureTalk38. Rethinking 'Vernacular' with Elizabeth Golden“All of those natural materials - stone, wood - we’ve always seen ourselves in them, in some way.” Today we engage in a broad-ranging discussion on the contemporary and future applications of what are considered to be vernacular or traditional materials with architect and professor Elizabeth Golden. Besides their structural, economic and political entanglements, our conversation also veers towards the spiritual and intangible ramifications of working with non-modernist materials. www.architecturetalk.org 2019-02-2741 min

ArchitectureTalk37. Transversality: Klee, Kahn and the Persian Imagination with Shima Mohajeri“[Transversality] can assert itself at any time into reality and not stay in a utopian mode.” Today we embark on a magical journey between cultures, between times, and between conceptions of time and space in a fascinating conversation with architectural historian Shima Mohajeri, who has just published a fantastic book entitled Architectures of Transversality: Paul Klee, Louis Kahn and the Persian Imagination (Routledge: 2018) www.architecturetalk.org 2019-02-1351 min

ArchitectureTalk36. Architecture as Unfinished Storytelling with Nicole Huber“We have to not take things as given, but rather tap into [our] own imaginaries, into [our] own yearnings, and longings, as an alternative world.” Today we discuss the potential of architecture as the work of the perennially unfinished project, as a site for transgression, as the other to utopia and fundamentalism. Nicole Huber is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington. Discussion topics include: Fiction making, post-critical architecture, Tarkovsky and science fiction, surrealism and design thinking. www.architecturetalk.org 2019-01-3049 min

ArchitectureTalk26. World History, Global History, Architecture with Anand Yang. For the premiere of ArchitectureTalk Season 2, we will be discussing the countours, ambitions and politics of World History, especially in terms of material culture, with University of Washington historian Anand Yang. While focussed on Anand's work on Indian Ocean trade and convict ship convoys that plied there during the colonial period. Our discussion covers connected topics such as subaltern studies, nationalism, the regional vs the global, convict labor and civil society, the Protestant work ethic and Big history. 2018-09-1259 min