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Insights of an Eco Artist11: Contemporary Currents - Co-Design with Seaweed: The Plurality of Julia Lohmann's PracticeToday we have the pleasure of exploring the fascinating work of Julia Lohmann. Julia is a renowned co-speculative designer, researcher, and Professor of Practice in Contemporary Design. Her work investigates and critiques the ethical and material value systems underpinning our relationship with flora and fauna. From pioneering the use of seaweed as a sustainable design material to leading the Department of Seaweed, Julia's innovative approaches challenge conventional design norms and inspire new ways of thinking about our world.
During the episode, we will uncover the story behind her groundbreaking projects, her unique perspective on design, and her vi...2024-09-0228 min
ALL GOOD VIBESKirsten Ring Murray - Olson Kundig ArchitectsGuest of this appointment is Kirsten Ring Murray, one of the principals and owners of the internationally renowned firm Olson Kundig Architects. Founded in 1966 by Jim Olson, the practice, Seattle-based, with a new office in New York City, during the five decades of its existence has enormously grown, expanding its portfolio beyond residences, which was a distinctive part of their realizations, covering more than fifteen countries on five continents, from amazing natural locations to crowded urban contexts. Their versatile full-service design besides residences, often for art collectors, includes museums, academic and commercial buildings, hospitality, interior design, master planning...2022-12-2341 min
ALL GOOD VIBESShirley Blumberg and Marianne McKenna - KPMB ArchitectsGuests of our appointment are two brilliant and leading architects, Shirley Blumberg and Marianne McKenna, co-founders in 1987 with other two partners, in an egalitarian collaboration, of KPMB Architects, a Toronto-based studio. The firm, enormously grown and become one of the most authoritative in Canada, internationally recognized for the important public buildings realized across the country, United States and Europe, has always coherently remained committed to the main shared beliefs in equity, diversity, and inclusion, cohesion and open dialogue, expanding over the years the leadership team, naming new partners alongside the founders.Their impressive portfolio embraces a wide range of...2022-12-091h 00
ALL GOOD VIBESJo Jinman - Jo Jinman ArchitectsGuest of this appointment is a young Korean architect who, endowed with a distinctive personality, has realized interesting works marked by a loud identity. Jo Jinman, graduated from Hanyang University, Seoul, with a later degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing in 2014 and founded his own, eponymous practice, Jo Jinman Architects.He has participated to national exhibitions and won several competitions, acknowledged with the ‘National Young Architect Award’ by the Ministry of Culture, Korea, 2015, ‘Korea Public Building Prize', 2016 and ‘Korea Progressive Architect Awards’, 2017, by the Ministry of Land and Infrastructure, ‘Seoul Architecture Award’, 2018, by Seoul Metropolitan Government, World Architecture Award, 2019, World Architec...2022-11-2538 min
ALL GOOD VIBESFernando Rodriguez - FRPO ArchitectsGuest of the appointment is Fernando Rodriguez, a young architect, co-founder in 2008 with Pablo Oriol of FRPO Architects, Madrid-based studio. After some years of experience at other firms and with a group of friends, they were led to establish their own practice by winning the important competition of the City of Justice, in Madrid. From that moment, they achieved brilliant results and recognitions, such as awarded Europe 40 UNDER 40, selected participants of the Golden Lion Venice Biennale Spanish Pavilion (2016), participants at the Spanish (2007, 2013, 2021) and the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2006, 2014), finalists of FAD Awards International, of Architectural Record Design Vanguard (2012...2022-11-1134 min
ALL GOOD VIBESMichael Leckie - Leckie StudioGuest of this appointment is Michael Leckie, founder in 2015 of Leckie Studio Architecture + Design. After a Bachelor’s degree in genetics, Michael received his Master of Architecture at the University of British Columbia, UBC, practicing for several years at Patkau Architects, having later a collaborative work experience with a colleague.The young multi-disciplinary practice, based in Vancouver, embraces different typologies, single-and multi-family residences, renovation, hospitality design, boutique-interiors mainly realized across North America. Essentiality and simplicity characterize their energetic realizations, displaying an attentive sensibility towards details and the act of making.Awarded several times as emerging firm by the Ro...2022-10-2850 min
ALL GOOD VIBESGiancarlo Mazzanti - El Equipo de MazzantiGuest of the appointment is a prominent figure in the Columbian architectural scenario, Giancarlo Mazzanti, who has dedicated part of his professional life to confer a new identity, a quality environment, and social welfare to poor, unprivileged areas of his country, demonstrating that architecture can offer effective opportunities for a social redemption. Graduated from the Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá, he completed his postgraduate studies in architectural history, theory, and industrial design at the University of Florence in Italy, founding shortly afterward his practice, El Equipo de Mazzanti, in the city of Bogotá.He realized very young the famous ‘Spain Libr...2022-10-1426 min
ALL GOOD VIBESRick Joy - Studio Rick JoyGuest of this appointment is the American architect Rick Joy, renowned for his climate responsive and landscape sensitive works. Originally from Maine, after studying and performing music for years as a professional drummer, he moved to study architecture at the University of Arizona,working after his degree in Phoenix, at the office of Will Bruder, a special, inspiring architect, particularly attentive to sustainability, who was a student and then an apprentice of Soleri at his Cosanti studio. In 1993, fascinated by the desert of Arizona, Rick Joy decided to stay permanently in Tucson, establishing his own practice Studio Rick Joy, SRJ...2022-09-3031 min
ALL GOOD VIBESMorten Rask Gregersen - NORD ArchitectsGuest of this appointment is Morten Rask Gregersen, co-founder in 2003 with other two partners of NORD Architects, a Copenhagen-based firm, established with the aspiration to make socially relevant architecture, capable of engaging the community and creating inclusive environments. Aware of some radical changes that are affecting our society, continuously evolving, they devote substantial efforts investigating alternative solutions, suitable to the new living conditions that are gradually emerging. Their projects, based on great empathy and respect towards diversity, embrace a relevant number of healthcare realisations, learning environments and public housing.‘Co-create’ characterizes their approach, implying a broad participation of consultants and...2022-09-1646 min
ALL GOOD VIBESCazú Zegers - Cazú Zegers ArquitecturaCazú Zegers, guest of this appointment, is a leading architect in the Latin America panorama. Finished her studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Valparaíso, Chile, she founded her own Santiago-based studio, Cazú Zegers Arquitectura, distinguishing herself, since the very beginning of her independent practice, with a special idiom, closely connected with local culture and territory. Her first house, Casa Cala, a compendium of poetry and territory, embracing, according to her methodology, a gesture, a figure, and a form, was rewarded the prestigious Buenos Aires Biennal of Architecture recognition in 1993. Convinced of the fundamental importance for Chil...2022-08-2654 min
ALL GOOD VIBESLoreta Castro-Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi - Taller CapitalGuests of the podcast are two young Mexican architects, Loreta Castro-Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi, co-founders in 2010 of their Mexico City-based architecture and urban design studio, Taller Capital, TC. Deeply concerned about a dramatic water problem that is afflicting Mexico, and the capital in particular, a water management system insufficient to solve extensive and frequent floods during the rainy season and, at the same time, unable to satisfy the water’s need of a population of more than 22 million residents, they have started a relevant research-based exploration, since the first years of the university, that has led them to develop sol...2022-08-1251 min
ALL GOOD VIBESPat Hanson - gh3*Guest of this encounter is Pat Hanson, an architect who is considered one of the most dynamic from the new Canadian school, founder in 2005 of gh3*, her own Toronto-based firm, a multi-disciplinary practice that, embracing architecture, urban planning and landscape, has realised brilliant institutional, infrastructural and residential projects, where the three different disciplines integrate, meaningfully complementing each other.Their environmentally and socially sustainable works, extremely relevant for their effort to reach low-carbon objectives, have achieved international recognition, awarded, among many acknowledgements, four Governor General’s Medal in Architecture by the Royal Architecture Institute of Canada (RAIC), the highest recognition fo...2022-07-2238 min
ALL GOOD VIBESHoracio Cherniavsky - Equipo de ArquitecturaGuest of this appointment is Horacio Cherniavsky co-founder in 2017 with his work and life partner, Viviana Pozzoli, of Equipo de Arquitectura, a young studio based in Asunción, Paraguay. They are both practicing and teaching architects and, despite the young age, have already developed a number of brilliant works, receiving significant recognitions: selected by the Latin American Architecture Biennial 2019 to exhibit their work in Pamplona, Spain, they won with UHP Synagogue one category of the XXI Pan-American Biennial of Architecture of Quito, Equador, finalist with another work Caja de Tierra, winner of the Frame Awards 2019 as Small Office of the Y...2022-07-0836 min
ALL GOOD VIBESSOO K. CHAN - SCDA ArchitectsGuest of this appointment is Soo K. Chan, founding principal and design director of SCDA Architects, a multi-disciplinary firm integrating architecture, interior, landscape and product design. The practice, established in Singapore in 1995, has realized projects across five continents, from master planning, resorts and hotels, high-rise luxury residences, commercial and institutional buildings, and private homes, receiving prestigious awards, three Royal Institute of British Architects International prizes (RIBA)including for International Excellence, three American Institute of Architects (AIA) International and AIA NY Awards, the Singapore President’s Design Award, the SIA-Getz Prize for Emerging Architecture, and nine Chicago Athenaeum awards. The wo...2022-06-2433 min
ALL GOOD VIBESWheeler Kearns ArchitectsGuests of the podcast are Joy Meek and Chris-Annmarie Spencer, principals of Wheeler Kearns Architects, Chicago-based studio, founded in 1987 by Dan Wheeler, joined in 1991 by another founding principal, Larry Kearns. Both recipient of significant recognitions, Joy and Chris-Annmarie represent two brilliant voices of an authentic collective structure, a team supported by the aspiration to work in chorality and design inclusive spaces. The practice, embracing a wide range of typologies with attentive dedication to sustainability and a long, close collaboration with nonprofit, mission-driven organizations, has been, in recognition of the outstanding achievements produced over time, twice named by AIA Chicago’s ‘Firm...2022-06-1057 min
ALL GOOD VIBESIco Migliore - Migliore + ServettoGuest of the appointment is Ico Migliore, co-founder with Mara Servetto of Migliore+Servetto Architects, Milan-based practice, with offices in Seoul and Tokyo. The studio embraces a wide range of projects on different scales from architecture to urban design, from interiors to communication, collaborating with an extensive spectrum of international companies in the field of fashion and design, realizing permanent and temporary installations and exhibitions around the world. Awarded important international prizes, they alternate research and teaching activities. Ico Migliore, is actually professor at the Design Department of the Politecnico di Milano and Chair Professor at the Dongseo University in...2022-05-2738 min
ALL GOOD VIBESDong Gong - Vector ArchitectsDong Gong, founder and Design Principal of Vector Architects, Beijing-based firm, one of the most interesting and authoritative figures among Chinese architects, globally applauded with important recognitions, is our guest in this podcast. After his Bachelor’s and Master’s at the Tsinghua University, he spent about seven years in US, for another Master of Architecture at the University of Illinois and working at the offices of Richard Meier and Steven Holl in New York. Practicing architect and academic educator, he has seen his extremely brilliant career acknowledged by prestigious local and international rewards. Elected as the Foreign Member of Fren...2022-05-0642 min
ALL GOOD VIBESMarlon Blackwell- Marlon Blackwell ArchitectsGuest of the podcast is Marlon Blackwell, co-founder and principal with his work and life partner Meryati Johari of Marlon Blackwell Architects, MBA, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Recipient of many, prestigious awards as the 2020 AIA Gold Medal, one of the highest honour, recognizing architects with enduring impacts on theory and practice, member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, another of the most important recognitions of artistic merit in the United States, he didn’t change a rare quality, continuing to demonstrate a generous spontaneous availability and accessibility. Brilliant intellectual and speaker he communicates with the same direct, intelligent simplicity of...2022-04-1545 min
ALL GOOD VIBESTodd Saunders - Saunders ArchitectureGuest of this appointment is Todd Saunders, considered one of the best interpreters of pristine Northern arctic landscape. Founder and principal of Saunders Architecture, Bergen-based studio in Norway, he has been ranked one of the ‘5 Greatest Architects Under 50’ by Huffington Post and 89 on the top-100 list of the best architects in the world. His architecture, mostly residential and cultural works, national park landmarks, minimal contemporaneous sculptural statements, touches respectfully the ground, dialoguing with magnificent natural settings, developing powerful intense interaction between site and people. Widely internationally published, with two dedicated monographs, his realisations have been recognized by prestigious awar...2022-04-0132 min
ALL GOOD VIBESAnders Lonka - ADEPTAnders Lonka, one of the three founder partners of ADEPT, a young Copenhagen-based firm with office also in Hamburg, is the guest of this new appointment. After a rich, extensive work experience at MVRDV, Diller Scofidio+ Renfro, New York and Cebra, he taught for several years at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and from 2006 he dedicates himself, with his young multidisciplinary team, to an architecture focused on developing a real interaction with the city, as a large community, synthesised in the concept ‘place over building’. Our conversation starts sharing his professional beginnings and considering the...2022-03-1827 min
ALL GOOD VIBESJay Valgora - STUDIO V ArchitectureGuest of this appointment is Jay Valgora, founder and principal of the Manhattan-based STUDIO V Architecture. He is an architect passionately dedicated to preserve and revitalise the relevant narrative of an heritage at risk of disappearing with particular interest for former abandoned industrial districts. Received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard he was a founding member and Design Director of Rockwell Group and Design Principal at Walker Group, until he decided to start his own practice in 2006. The firm embraces multiple services from master plans, to commercial and residential. Their...2022-03-0439 min
ALL GOOD VIBESGonça Pasolar - Emre Arolat ArchitectureGuest of this appointment is Gonça Pasolar, co-founder with Emre Arolat of EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, one of the most renowned firm of Turkey, Istanbul-based, with offices in London and New York. The practice, characterized by a wide range of realisations from urban masterplans, airports to residential, cultural buildings and workplaces, has been acknowledged with prestigious recognitions as the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the RIBA International Excellence, selected by the Mies van der Rohe Award. Gonça has received the European Center for Architecture’s 40 under 40 award and the nominee for one of the five AJ’s Women Architects of the...2022-02-1853 min
ALL GOOD VIBESPark AssociatiFilippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi, co-founders of Park Associati, are the guests of this appointment. The Milan-based firm, born in 2000 as a small group of collaborators, is currently represented by a large team and their interventions, focused initially on renovation of post-war buildings bearing the signature of famous architects, are actually embracing a wide range of sectors, from hybrid residential buildings, multifunctional retail spaces and restaurants to urban planning and interior design. Pagliani and Rossi are both professors at Politecnico of Milano, often lecturing, participating to conferences and debates. The porous and flexible ambience of their studio, an old...2022-02-0439 min
ALL GOOD VIBESLi HuLi Hu, guest of this appointment, is a brilliant, young architect, who has worked for almost a decade at Steven Holl Architects in New York, becoming a partner in the practice, opening and leading Holl’s office in Beijing, responsible for some of the most influential projects completed in Asia. In 2005, Li Hu and his partner, Huang Wenjing, co-founded their own studio, Open architecture. Despite their age they have a great number of important projects internationally published and awarded. Three monographs embrace their work. Teacher at Tsinghua University School of Architecture and Central Academy of Fine Arts and director of Co...2022-01-1444 min
ALL GOOD VIBESSean GodsellSean Godsell, Melbourne-based architect, is known especially for his residential architecture, single-family houses mostly built in exceptional places where they seek to reach a gradual, progressive mimetic adaptation with the surrounding landscape, as the architect’s hand-drawn sketches masterfully emphasize just with a few lines. Sustainability and an obsessive tension towards a concise sobriety are the common notes shared by all his works, characterized by an apparent deceptive simplicity: essential industrial, minimalist forms that reveal at a closer view sophisticated construction techniques. His realizations from the smallest to a larger scale are bespoke-works, fine crafted pieces, all exquisitely de...2021-12-201h 00
ALL GOOD VIBESChristoph IngenhovenChristoph Ingenhoven, founder and principal of ingenhoven architects, is an authentic representative of a sustainable, green architecture. His responsible buildings, realized in different parts of the world, have received the most prestigious awards, according to the highest international certification standards. A deep concern about the impact on the natural environment and the people liveability is the common denominator running through all of them. The firm develops projects varied in scale and typology, with a special core competence and extensive experience in the design and implementation of high-rise.Christoph Ingenhoven, graduated with a double degree in engineering and architecture, founder...2021-12-101h 25
ALL GOOD VIBESTatiana BilbaoTatiana Bilbao, founder of Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO, is one of the leading and most thought-provoking Mexican voices. Following her profession since the beginning as a means to improve social well-being, she has never renounced this aspiration. Passionate of her native country’s culture and traditions she has always strived to implement local construction techniques, regional materials and resources, combined with her ability to be modern. Author of projects in Mexico,China, Europe and the United States, she has received many awards and her works, internationally published in the most renowned magazines, have been exhibited in prestigious museums and galleries, as...2021-11-2640 min
ALL GOOD VIBESJAJA ArchitectsKathrin Gimmel together with Jakob S. Christensen and Jan Y. Tanaka is one of the founders of JAJA Architects. The practice, a Copenhagen-based collective of international architects, stretches across a diverse range of backgrounds, from Norway, Switzerland, Japan and Denmark. Founded in 2008, they have been able, even if quite young, to distinguish themselves as one of the leading emerging firms in Denmark. Their works embrace a playful, fun and explosive character that, pushing the boundaries of pragmatic and functional solutions, proposes new hybrid spaces, exploring new ways of living together.Park n Play, emblematic of their strong desire of...2021-11-1228 min
ALL GOOD VIBESBernard KhouryBorn in a family of architects, Bernard Khoury is one of the most authoritative voices in Lebanon. Idealistic and romantic, a soldier who doesn’t renounce to fight for his ideals, he expresses through his works a language of rare ethical consistency and absolute freedom against unacceptable orthodoxies. After studying in the US at Harvard, in 1991 he returned to his native country, where the civil war was only officially declared over and spent a number of years passionately involved with a series of experimental projects, as ‘Evolving Scars’, in the confident attempt to have a part in the re-construction of Beirut...2021-10-2932 min
ALL GOOD VIBESThomas Coldefy - ColdefyThomas Coldefy is the Principal of Coldefy & Associés Architectes Urbanistes (CAAU), and together with his wife, architect Isabel Van Haute, they contribute to the international success of the firm that has offices in Lille, Paris, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, managing prestigious, complex projects at both regional and international scale. Thomas will share with us his rich experience abroad, working at renowned firms, as SOM and KPF in New York, Michel Macary and Tadao Ando in Paris, before returning to follow his own practice. In 2006 the studio won an important International competition and realised the Hong Kong Design Institute, followed b...2021-10-1553 min
ALL GOOD VIBESSHAU - Daliana Suryawinata & Florian HeinzelmannDaliana Suriawinata and Florian Heinzelmann, partners both in work and life, along with Tobias Hofmann in 2009 established their own-independent architecture firm, SHAU, operating in the Netherlands, Germany, and from 2012 also in Indonesia. Their efforts in Indonesia are dedicated to preserve with small but extremely important interventions the character of a society at risk to be erased by aggressively inappropriate urban developments. Creative and original initiatives nurture their socially responsible architecture, while passive climatic design strategies and material experimentation characterize their environmental commitment. Together, they will share an extremely interesting project, contemplating a series of mini-libraries, spread through Indonesia, spontaneously growing...2021-10-0153 min
ALL GOOD VIBESEFFEKT- Daniel VeenboerThis week a Copenhagen based architecture practice, EFFEKT, co-founded in 2007 by Sinus Lynge and Tue Foge, will be represented in our podcast by the young Daniel Veenboer, expert in Sustainable Urban Development. Focused on bridging architecture, technology and ecology, EFFEKT has proposed extremely innovative and interesting works, that speak about social inclusion, community participation inside a preserved natural habitat. They have recently polarized the international attention with the beautiful, green captivating installation, ‘Ego to Eco’, that is currently exhibited at the Architecture Venice Biennale.We will start our conversation talking about the wide spread respectful tendency in Denmark among the...2021-09-1045 min
ALL GOOD VIBESBenedetta Tagliabue - Miralles Tagliabue EMBTBenedetta Tagliabue, currently director of Miralles Tagliabue EMBT, international architecture firm founded in Barcelona in 1994, with office in Shanghai and in Paris, has received prestigious awards for her works as the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2005, the National Spanish Prize in 2006, City of Barcelona prize in 2005 and 2009, and the RIBA Jencks Award in 2013 as acknowledgment of her major contribution internationally to both the theory and practice of architecture. Extremely active in the academia, she has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Columbia University and Barcelona ETSAB, lecturing regularly at architecture forums and universities, and part of jurors around the world...2021-08-2752 min
ALL GOOD VIBESChristoph Hesse ArchitectsChristoph Hesse, graduated from ETH Zurich, after a year of study at the MIT, in 2007 received a Master of Architecture in Urban Design with Distinction from Harvard University. In 2008 he decided to return close to his native village to set up his own independent practice, Christoph Hesse Architects. His projects are all approached with great respect for the natural environment and its resources, with attentive concern about energy-saving or energy generating strategies, recycling or reusing existing materials, embracing local methods of construction and artisan skills. The conversation starts with ’Open Mind Places’, an open-ended project, strategically organized as a journey alon...2021-08-1337 min
ALL GOOD VIBESAlison Brooks – Alison Brooks ArchitectsAlison Brooks, founder of her own London-based practice, Alison Brooks Architects, ABA, is regarded as one of the leading architects of her generation, the only architect of the UK to have won all three of the RIBA awards. Born and grown up in Canada, she studied architecture at the University of Waterloo, and after graduating she decided to move to UK, where at the beginning she worked with the designer Ron Arad, becoming a partner in the firm. On this episode, she will share moments of this initial journey, from her collaboration with Arad until 1996, when she set up her...2021-07-3057 min
ALL GOOD VIBESHiroshi Okamoto - OLI Architecture PLLCOur guest is Hiroshi Okamoto, co-founder together with Bing Lin, of OLI Architecture PLLC, a New York-based practice with offices in Shanghai and Paris, whose expertise consists of civic and cultural structures, education, healthcare, and residential international design. Their approach, attentive to create unique buildings merged with the cultural environment of the site, focuses on contextual studies using physical, digital, and parametric models. Hiroshi will share his experience, over a decade, spent working alongside I. M. Pei, as Site Representative and Project Architect, following many important projects as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha...2021-07-1654 min
3' Grezzi di Cristina Marras3’ grezzi Ep. 182 BiennaleGermania, Canada e Australia offrono ai visitatori della Biennale un padiglione vuoto o addirittura chiuso. Mentre altre nazioni partono dalla situazione attuale per riflessioni poetiche e coinvolgenti, il tutto in una Venezia che non ho mai visto così vuota e così bella. Nemmeno oggi potrò caricare trascrizione, note e traduzione in inglese, mi metterò al lavoro appena rientrata a casa.PODCAST WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLEShttps://youtu.be/D5W1h6tKIAYLINKSLa Biennale di architettura 2021https://www.labiennale.org/it/architettura/2021Il padiglione tedescohttps://artslife.com/2021/05/24/da-venezia-padiglione-qr-code-la-presa-per-il-c-della-germania-alla-biennale/2021-07-0403 min
ALL GOOD VIBESAndrew Whalley - Grimshaw ArchitectsGrimshaw Architects is a worldwide known firm, founded in 1980 by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, an architect who has dedicated his entire career with unchanged coherence to innovation and sustainability, receiving perhaps one of the highest number of recognitions. Guest of our podcast as representative of the practice is Andrew Whalley, part of the company since its earliest days, since 1986, Deputy Chairman in 2011 and succeeded Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in 2019 as Chairman of the global leadership structure, actually embracing offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Melbourne, and Sydney. Involved in a wide range of award-winning projects, including education, performing arts...2021-07-0242 min
ALL GOOD VIBESMatilde CasssaniMatlide Cassani’s work intersects the borders of architecture, installation and performance. Her research explores pluralism of religion as it manifests itself in contemporary non-traditional spaces. After her graduation she was involved as a design consultant for the GTZ, a German association for technical cooperation, in Sri Lanka, for a project of reconstruction and development post tsunami. It was during this experience that she started meticulously observing and deepening her interest in spatial implications of ‘cultural pluralism’, with a particular attention to the ways displaced people maintain their identity after moving from one country to another. This exploration led her to rea...2021-06-1837 min
ALL GOOD VIBESBarclay&Crousse ArchitectureSandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse, co-founder of Barclay&Crousse Architecture, will talk about the period spent in Paris and the decision to come back and work principally in Lima, Peru. What has meant and still today means to work there. As attentive, respectful preservers of regional resources and local craftsmanship, they work transforming limitations and restrictions into enticing qualities of their architecture.About their realizations, we have focused on the pluri-awarded ‘Place of Remembrance’, an emblematic work, contrasted by the government but passionately supported by the Nobel Prize writer Mario Vargas Llosa and the people. Many formal ‘imperfections’ narrate...2021-06-0445 min
ALL GOOD VIBESDream The CombineOn this episode, Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, partners in work and life, co-founders of their own Minneapolis-based studio, ‘Dream The Combine’, two young and courageous voices, will share with us some of their intriguing, enticing site-specific works. Their installations, characterized by high creative unconventionality, embrace conceptual art, architecture, and cultural issues, exploring powerful narrative complexities, cross-pollinated and contaminated by the most diverse expressive languages from film, theatre to scenography. Caught the public’s attention with their winning project, ‘Hide&Seek’, for the 2018 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, they often utilize mirrors as an effective visual means to de-construct and re-constru...2021-05-2148 min
ALL GOOD VIBESBohlin Cywinski JacksonRay Calabro, FAIA is a principal in the Seattle studio of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Across a 25-year career with the practice, Ray’s work emphasizes the relationship of a building to its surrounding landscape; he believes that architecture is a thoughtful response to the culture and spirit of each place.Ray brings a depth of experience and great enthusiasm to a broad range of building types, leading teams in a collaborative design process to achieve extraordinary, award-winning buildings, including civic and cultural destinations, corporate headquarters, academic buildings, and private residences across the United States and Canada. Ray is al...2021-05-0741 min
ALL GOOD VIBESCarla JuaçabaCarla Juaçaba is a young Brazilian architect who gained international attention in 2012, realizing, in occasion of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio + 20, in Rio de Janeiro, her temporary Pavilion Humanidade, conceived together with the theatre film director Bia Lessa. The solution of using scaffolding bases, available on side, making a support structure a building all by itself, was her extremely original, unconventional answer to the requirement of a sustainable proposal. The material 100% reusable gave her also the chance to realize a really spectacular, impressive sculptural presence, drawing a crowd of over 220,000 visitors across two weeks, and above t...2021-04-2329 min
ALL GOOD VIBESMaciej Jakub ZawadzkiMaciej Jakub Zawadzki after working for several years at two international renowned offices, Bjarke Ingels Group BIG in Copenhagen and MVRDV in Rotterdam, decided to establish his own practice MJZ. He will share with us how this wealth of experience shaped his professional career, leading him to realize his own firm in Poland. Deeply imbedded in his office’s DNA is an attentive concern towards a sustainable and resilient design, with a conscious awareness for ecological and climatic issues. Technology and digital craft play an important role to enhance everyday living conditions. Maciej’s architecture, human-centered and community inclusive, addresses impo...2021-04-0942 min
ALL GOOD VIBESMichael P. Johnson’s - MPJstudioMichael P. Johnson’s wanderlust, thirsty curiosity, as he will tell us, to explore and experience a sort of nomadic life never in one place, has allowed him to deepen friendships with exceptional, extremely stimulating men, that we could define visionary. Doing so, he had the chance to assimilate and share their openness and futuristic way of thinking. Among these exceptional encounter there will be the one with Bruce Goff, an eccentric but extremely intelligent man, who cultivated many different forms of passions from art to music, receiving the title of chairman in the School of Architecture at the University of...2021-03-2632 min
ALL GOOD VIBESEva CastroWe talk to Eva Castro, who with her fascinating lab, Formaxioms, found in 2019, part of a cluster of SUTD, Singapore University of Technology and Design and ASD, Architecture and Sustainable Design, intents to promote and deepen research on speculative narratives through the exploration of artificial realities, VR/AR, computational and advance technologies. The work she is carrying out with her students, focuses on the ecology of liquid territories, reimagining new realities for 'post', 'trans', 'hyper' anthropocentric scenarios to address the future rising ocean level along the coastal areas of the South China Sea. Her ideas are always projected into the...2021-03-1249 min
ALL GOOD VIBESAlessandro Melis different forms of expressive artsIn this second part, we talk together with Alessandro Melis about the different forms of expressive arts, expanding the architecture discourse with radical visions, and utopian-dystopian scenarios embraced in the world of mass media, literature, comic books, graphic novels, manga, films, sci-fiction, and cyberpunk. Industrial and Creative Arts have always conferred an additional value and a greater resonance to architectural design, as Alessandro explains, even if they have not always been adequately evaluated especially in the Italian cultural panorama. They have proven to be an essential tool, appropriate for the speed of the contemporaneity and of our dynamic continuously changing...2021-02-2637 min
ALL GOOD VIBESAlessandro MelisIn our podcast, Alessandro Melis shares his idea of architecture, embracing notions and transversal contaminations coming from evolutionary biology, neurology, paleoanthropology, and all those specialized fields complementing his research. Anticipating a foretaste of the Italian Pavilion for the Venice Bi-ennale 2021, as curator, he will guide us on a journey through his ‘mini lab’, a jungle inhabited by strange creatures, filled with cyber tones, to be part of a Resilient Community. He will explain how to find an ‘exaptation’, resilience by abandoning anthropocentric behaviours and establishing a new alliance be-tween man and nature, accepting to be part of a multi species coexiste...2021-02-1135 min
ALL GOOD VIBESMatt Wittman: Beauty and SustainabilityIn our podcast, we talk with Matt Wittman. Together with Jody Estes, he founded Wittman Estes, a Seattle based integrated design studio since 2012 focused on the idea that buildings and landscapes can be combined into a unified expression. The firm is best known for innovative housing — single-family to multi-family — that provides a rich experience to the users and is in tune with the natural environment. Wittman Estes's projects are often published on Livegreenblog because they focus on sustainable solutions without neglecting our inherent need for beauty and a powerful connection to their context. The vibes of their projects are alwa...2021-01-2837 min
ALL GOOD VIBESSO – ILSO – IL (Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu) is a Brooklyn-based architecture firm founded by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu in 2008. The couple represents one of the most inter-esting and original names among the young generation of architects. The philosophy that animates their work aims to dialogue with different cultures and countries, open to the world without any geographical borders. Their projects expand from North America, Asia, Europe creating an authentic interaction with the environment and the community. Well known for their research about innovative use of materials, they are authors of the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art for the University of Cali...2021-01-1435 min
ALL GOOD VIBESAdib Dada - theOtherDadaAdib Dada is a young Lebanese architect and founder of theOtherDada [tOD] Regenerative Consultancy & Architecture firm, which mission is - since 2010 - to activate sustainability and resilience thanks to projects across architecture, living systems, and art. He is one of those professionals with a heartfelt environmental commitment. In our podcast, we talk about his various initiatives in Lebanon in a challenging moment for the country where the climate crisis and the urgent need for actions have to consider a complicated social and political situation. We explore his project Beirut RiverLESS, which aims to regenerate the deteriorated Beirut River.2020-12-3146 min
ALL GOOD VIBESWinka Dubbeldam Archi-TectonicsWinka Dubbeldam is a Dutch-American architect, founder of the New York-based Archi-tectonics, a firm that operates on multiple scales of investigation, ranging from object design, buildings to complex urban systems and urban planning. In 2006 with the partnership of Justin Korkhammer, new offices were opened in Netherlands and China. The studio works with a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach, combining task-specific intelligent and performance methods to reach a strong identity. Through deep research, extensive prototyping and digital craftsmanship, Archi-tectonics creates efficient, optimized and sustainable, healthy buildings with custom-tailored and cutting-edge technology, while preserving at the core of design a unique character embracing versatility...2020-12-1744 min
ALL GOOD VIBESJulian Franke on Perception and Imagination of ArchitectureIn our podcast, we have spoken to many architects who gave a deep insight into making architecture. We also started looking into the other activities that help to get the architects’ message around, from photographers and critics to PR. But there is still the elephant in the room: what about the perception and imagination of architecture. That is a crucial question if architecture isn’t meant to be done for its own sake but wants to fulfill its social function. Happily, some architects are looking into these aspects. One of them is our guest today, the German architect and phil...2020-12-0331 min
ALL GOOD VIBESRichard EnglandRichard England lives on an island, Malta, where he was born, a geographical area that has influenced his work with great resonance toward an architecture of silence, of spirituality and meditation. He graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan in the 1960s, and practiced in the studio of Gio Ponti, who at that time was also the editor of Domus magazine. The atelier was an opportunity for him to meet exceptional personali-ties: Albini, Michelucci, Mangiarotti, Scarpa, Giancarlo De Carlo, Moretti, Richard Neutra and Pier Luigi Nervi. A multitude of great passions, from poetry, literature, music, photography, art, and sculptures, have always...2020-11-1943 min
ALL GOOD VIBESWriting about Architecture, Herbert Wright2020-11-0540 min
ALL GOOD VIBESClément BlanchetClément Blanchet is a French architect, teacher and critic, actively practicing in the fields of architectural theory, urbanism and cultural investigations. After working for over 10 years with Rem Koolhaas as Associate and then Director of OMA France, Clément Blanchet in 2014 founded his own firm, Clement Blanchet Architecture, CBA, in Paris. The studio is an international architecture and urban design practice which bridges together multidisciplinary and multicultural actors. The mission is to rethink architecture and urbanism to derive clear, durable and coherent solutions, informed by diverse points of view. Structured as a laboratory, CBA investigates the process of analysis of...2020-10-2229 min
ALL GOOD VIBESJohn Marx, Form4John Marx, AIA and Chief Artistic Officer, is since 1999 Principal and responsible for developing Form4 Architecture’s design vision and philosophical language. Form4 is an important architectural office based in San Francisco. John has has led projects for Silicon Valley tech giants, such as Netflix, Citrix, VMware, Google, and Facebook, and has an international reach that includes designs in India, Korea, Taiwan, and Ireland. In our podcast we talk about his projects for Burning Man, this year in a virtual version only where he proposed the Museum of no Spectators. He explains the spirit of Burning Man where creativity an...2020-10-0945 min
ALL GOOD VIBESStellios Plainiotis PhD, NEAPOLIDr. Stellios Plainiotis is the founder and CEO of NEAPOLI, an Environmental Design & Engineering consultancy firm with offices in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul. Considered as one of Asia’s leading Sustainability experts, he has spent over 20 years in academic, policy and private sectors across the Europe, South East and East Asia. He has consulted over 80 important construction projects which include Crystal Palace Park and Hoxton Square in London, Rohansky Ostrov Masterplan in Prague, Issam Fares Institute in Beirut, Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2, TRX, Menara PNB, the Petronas Cititowers in KL and the multiple award winning project PKNS HQ, reaching prestigious aw...2020-09-2419 min
ALL GOOD VIBESTszwai So - Spheron ArchitectsTszwai So is a London based architect whose work ranges from architecture, public arts, visual arts, installations, and writing to filmmaking. He is the co-founding Director of Sphe-ron Architects. He teaches at the University of Westminster.Tszwai So and the practice have been nominated for and won many awards. He was named a rising star in British Architecture by the RIBA Journal in 2016. He was named the best UK young architect under 40 in 2017 by the American Institute of Architects.The Belarusian Memorial Chapel, in London, commissioned by the Holy See of Rome and completed in 2017 - the first...2020-09-1031 min
ALL GOOD VIBESGeorge Ranalli and Anne ValentinoGeorge Ranalli is a renowned New York-based Architect, who has founded his practice in 1977. For over 40-years, he has worked on a diverse range of projects from civic masterplans, institutional and public buildings, private residences and interiors, as well as, product design. Alongside the studio, he has spent a long academic career: Professor of Architecture at Yale University, and later Dean of City College, for over 16-years, at Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. His architecture is characterized by meticulous attention to detail, tradition and craftsmanship. His work has been displayed in famous museums and his exhibitions have travelled...2020-08-2738 min
ALL GOOD VIBESIrene Luque Martín“Everything is Urbanism” with Irene Luque Martín, MVRDVOur guest today is Irene Luque Martín. She is Project Leader at MVRDV Urban Studio, one of the eight studios of the Dutch architectural firm in Rotterdam and is a PhD in Planning and Urban Technologies awarded Cum Laude and with an ‘International Mention’ during her stay at the Centre of Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She is an active member of several institutions such as ISOCARP, Complex System Society and AESOP where she is part of coordination team of the Young Academic (YA) network, as well a...2020-08-1319 min
ALL GOOD VIBESRichard HassellRichard Hassell is an Australian-born architect and artist who has lived in Singapore since 1989. He is the co-founding director, alongside Wong Mun Summ, of the Singapore-based architectural firm, WOHA. Known for their dedication to environmental and social issues, they tackle problems of the 21st century with innovative new design and urban solutions. Their work embraces diverse highly influential projects, from residential towers, resorts and hotels, public housing and institutional buildings, to masterplanning. It has been the Aga Kahn Award for Architecture in 2007 to establish their reputation and notoriety as authors of naturally ventilated skyscrapers for urban tropical context. Many other...2020-07-3018 min
ALL GOOD VIBESErieta AttaliErieta Attali was born in Tel Aviv and has a PhD in photography. She currently resides between New York and Paris, photographing the work of contemporary architects from around the world.She has been teaching in some of the world’s leading universities, including Columbia University in NYC, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), The University of Tokyo amongst others and she began her career in the ‘90s as a leading expert in archaeological photography using UV and IR radiation technology. About 20 years ago she came across the work of the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, and since then she has...2020-07-1618 min
ALL GOOD VIBESJames Finestone - ArupJames Finestone is Director at Arup Architecture Europe. He is a multidisciplinary leader, experienced in low energy design, masterplanning and the role of Architecture in cities. As well as overseeing the development of the teams in Arup’s European offices, he has recently been involved in a number of sports stadia projects around the world, masterplans in Italy, Turkey and China, Science and Industry projects including Jaguar Landrover, Nestle and Equinix and many commercial projects. He was trained as an architect but has recently also gone back to student life in parallel with work to complete a masters in Machine Le...2020-07-0129 min
ALL GOOD VIBESLaura IloniemiLaura Iloniemi, native Finnish, is an expert for communication in the field of architecture. She has worked with architects for over twenty years, advising them on how to lead and support their promotional efforts with a curatorial approach, informed by her education in architectural theory and museology. She focuses on the branding aspects, starting from the identity of the architect and their practices since marketing - knowing how to sell yourself - seems to have become an absolute essential after the various crises in the building industry. (what makes it very interesting to talk to her in this special moment...2020-06-1816 min
ALL GOOD VIBESJinhee ParkOur new guest will fill the atmosphere of this new encounter with her energetic and extremely vibrant character. Beyond her apparent docile compliance, which is a bit a characteristic from her Asian origins, she hides an iron will and an extremely resolute character. Very talented and endowed with great originality and analytical skills she has achieved prestigious awards at a very young age, as AIA Young Architects Award, Emerging Voices Award and the Young Architects Forum Award by the Architectural League of N.Y. and the honour to be mentioned on some of the most authoritative architectural magazines. She will...2020-06-0422 min
l'Arte del ComunicareTik Tok, un nuovo luogo per fare marketing: Paolo SchianchiSe conoscete Tik Tok per i balletti, dovete sapere che non è tutto qui. Il colosso cinese, che è approdato in Europa da solo un anno, ha fatto passi da gigante.All’inizio, questo social era prevalentemente usato dai ragazzi della generazione Z, ma con il lockdown dei primi mesi del 2020, si sono affacciati sulla piattaforma anche gli over.Su Tik Tok ci sono oggi grandi aziende della moda, musei, giornalismo, ed è un luogo sempre più attrattivo dove andare a fare marketing.Paolo Schianchi sta studiando il fenomeno e ci dà in anteprima alcuni risultati della s...2020-05-2936 min
ALL GOOD VIBESFlora&Faunavision: Leigh SachwitzFFV was founded in 1999 in Berlin by Scottish native Leigh Sachwitz. In 1993, received her architectural diploma from the Glasgow School of Art, she arrived in the post wall city, a gigantic playground for creative people where nothing was impossible. She worked in an architect office by day, she helped create makeshift clubs, bars, art spaces for the night using all sorts of materials, light and projections. Later she would add sound and video. Her visuals, sights and sounds are ephemeral and bang on trend, mixing media and technologies, yet they create visceral experiences. From Leigh’s first slides in Be...2020-05-2122 min
ALL GOOD VIBESSET ArchitectsSET Architects, a team of young architects, will entertain our audience, imprinting a fresh, innovative tone to our first virtual encounter. With their extremely precise though very concise language they evoke the notes of a precious, carefully crafted environment that is gradually disappearing. Simplicity, a key note of their creative process, combined with sustainable materials and reverence to context and identity, envisions and casts a flexible and resilient contemporary style of living. Rewarded with important recognitions, it will be for sure not a surprise if they will conceive very soon special projects that will stand out for their originality and...2020-05-0716 minALL GOOD VIBESTrailerThis new series of podcasts was born as an idea to maintain an open dialogue with architects and designers. The short podcasts will share, through a virtual chat, engaging and interesting insights of works, ideas and thoughts of the most significant representatives of this artistic panorama [these two worlds], from promising young people to famous, renowned ones. All the multidisciplinary aspects that are connected with these two worlds will be examined, focusing particularly on environmental and social sustainability. The encounters will be led by two hosts, Christiane Burklein and Virginia Cucchi, as narrative voices. Two women who, belonging to different...2020-05-0711 min