What does it mean for architecture to have character?  Stewart and Allison are co-founders of Design With Company, who's work is interested in concepts that are shared between architecture and literature, including: narrative fictions, type, and character. The work has earned awards such as the Architecture Record Design Vanguard Award and the Young Architect’s Forum Award and has been featured in exhibitions such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Design Miami, as well as at the V&amp;A Museum and Tate Modern in London.&nbsp;   Allison has lectured at institutions like MoMA in New York, the Vancouver Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Graham Foundation, and universities across the country and abroad. Stewart&nbsp;is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an Associate Dean of the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts.&nbsp;  https://www.mascontext.com/32-character/

Ep._082 _ Stewart Hicks / Allison Newmeyer _'Character'

This week is a conversation with Jackie Higgins. Jackie is a television documentary director and writer, who read zoology at Oxford University, as a student of Richard Dawkins. She made wildlife films for a decade, for BBC as well as for Channel 4, National Geographic and The Discovery Channel. She then joined the BBC's science department, researching and writing, directing and producing programs such as Tomorrow’s World and Horizon. Today we’re talking about her book ‘Sentient’.  &nbsp; &nbsp;  Music samples used.  Richard Devine, 'Etch n Sketch'&nbsp;  Cinematic Laboratory, 'Eurotrack Starter Kits ep. 01

085 _ Jackie Higgins _’Sentient’

Daniel A. Barber is Associate Professor and Chair of the PhD Program in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching narrate eco-critical histories of architecture and seek pathways into the post-hydrocarbon future. We discuss on this episode his most recent book 'Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning (Princeton UP, 2020)

086 _ Daniel Barber _ ’Climate Histories’

Margret Grebowicz is an environmental philosopher living in upstate New York. She is the author of four books--Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the World, Whale Song, The National Park to Come, Why Internet Porn Matters--and is currently finishing a new short book, Rescue Me: On Dog Abundance and Social Scarcity. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for sample permission.

087 _ Margret Grebowicz _ 'Origin Stories'

This week is a conversation with curator Boris Magrini about the 'Radical Gaming' exhibition currently at the House of Electronic Arts (HEK) in Basel Switzerland. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for the use of several sample permission.

088 _ Boris_Magrini _ 'Radical Gaming'

Today is a conversation about science fiction with Sherryl Vint. Sherryl is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where she directs the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science program. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for the use of several sample permission.

089 _ Sherryl Vint _ ’Science Fiction’

Emanuele Coccia is an Associate Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He received his PhD in Florence and was formerly an Assistant Professor of History of Philosophy in Freiburg, Germany. He worked on the history of European normativity and on aesthetics. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for sample permission.

090 _ Emanuele Coccia _ ‘The Life of Plants’

Henry Greely is Professor of Law at Stanford University and Professor by courtesy of Genetics, Stanford School of Medicine; Director, Center for Law and the Biosciences; Director, Stanford Program in Neuroscience and Society; and Chair, Steering Committee of the Center for Biomedical Ethics. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for sample permission.

091 _ Henry T. Greely _ ‘CRISPR People’

Chris Forman is a physicist with a PhD in protein engineering, conducting research at Northwestern University into the organization of soft matter using experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches. Claire Asher is a biologist with a PhD in evolution and genetics, specializing in the behavior of ants. A widely published science writer, she has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Bloomsbury Theatre and appeared on BBC 4 and BBC Radio 4. *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.    Thanks to  for sample permission.

092 _ Chris Forman and Claire Asher _ 'Brave Green World'

My conversation this week is with Astrophysicist Adam Frank is a leading expert on the final stages of evolution for stars like the sun, and his computational research group at the University of Rochester has developed advanced supercomputer tools for studying how stars form and how they die. Today we’re discussing his book, ‘Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth’.&nbsp; *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.   Thanks to  for sample permission.

093 _ Adam Frank _’Alien Anthropocenes’

Today is a conversation with Sheila Jasanoff about her book ‘The Ethics of Invention’ and her research and work as the Director of the STS (Science and Technology Studies) at Harvard.&nbsp; *** Night White Skies is a program about our design futures as both the environment and our human bodies are now open for design.  &nbsp;

094 _ Sheila Jasanoff _ ‘Ethics of Invention’

Geoff Manaugh is the author of BLDGBLOG, The BLDGBLOG Book, and the New York Times-bestselling A Burglar's Guide to the City. A Burglar's Guide is currently being developed for television by CBS Studios. Manaugh writes for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, New Scientist, The Daily Beast, and more. He is former director of Studio-X NYC at Columbia University.

EP. 012 _ Geoff Manaugh _ 'Sentient Landscapes'

David Gissen is the&nbsp;author of books, essays, exhibitions and experimental writings and projects about environments, landscapes, cities, and buildings from our time and the historical past. David is&nbsp;Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts,&nbsp;a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University,&nbsp;and a visiting critic at numerous schools in the United States and Europe where he lectures and teaches in the areas of architecture, urban, and landscape history-theory, writing and design. At CCA, he co-directs the Experimental History Project and the MAAD HTX degree.&nbsp;

EP. 013 _ David Gissen _ 'Lost Atmospheres’

Darran Anderson is the author of&nbsp;Imaginary Cities&nbsp;(Influx Press/University of Chicago Press)&nbsp;and the forthcoming&nbsp;Tidewrack&nbsp;(Vintage/Farrar, Straus and Giroux). He has also written the forthcoming e-book&nbsp;In Defence of Expressionist Architecture&nbsp;for&nbsp;Machine Books. He has written on the intersection&nbsp;of architecture and politics, technology, culture and futurism for the likes of The Guardian, Wired and Aeon. He has given talks on these issues at the LSE, the V&amp;A, the Bartlett, the Bristol Festival of Ideas, the Edinburgh International&nbsp;Book Festival and the Robin Boyd Foundation, Melbourne among others. He gave the 2016 keynote speech for the British&nbsp; Council at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

EP. 014 _ Darran Anderson _ 'Imaginary Travels'

Sara M. Watson is a writer and technology critic. She is an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and a writer in residence at Digital Asia Hub.&nbsp;Sara writes and speaks about emerging issues in the intersection of technology, culture, and society. She advocates for a constructive approach to technology criticism that not only critiques, but also offers alternatives.&nbsp;Her writing appears in The Atlantic, Wired, The Washington Post,&nbsp;Slate, Motherboard, and other publications.

Ep. 028 _ Sara M. Watson _ 'Technology Criticism'

Today is a conversation with Bryan Norwood who recently guest edited&nbsp;Log&nbsp;42 (winter/spring 2018) entitled “Disorienting Phenomenology.” Bryan Norwood&nbsp;is completing his PhD at Harvard University in the History and Theory of Architecture.&nbsp; For more visit www.seanlally.net

Ep. 045 _ Bryan Norwood _'Phenomenology'

Kiel Moe is a practicing architect and Sheff Professor of Architecture at McGill University, and author of 8 books.&nbsp;We’re discussing his most recent book Empire, State and Building. The book plots the material history and geography for one plot of land in Manhattan – the parcel of land under the Empire State Building – over the past two hundred years.

Ep. 049 _ Kiel Moe _ 'Empire, State and Building'

Muchaneta Kap-fundee is founding editor-in-chief of FashNerd.com, which she co founded with Mano ten Napel in 2015. Fashnerd is one of the fastest growing digital magazines writing about fashion technology and wearables. www.Fashnerd.com

Ep. 052 _ Muchaneta Kapfunde _ 'FashNerd'

This week is with Rachel Armstrong, Professor of Experimental Architecture&nbsp;at the Department of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University. Rachel Armstrong leads Metabolism research in developing artificial biology systems showing qualities of near-living systems. Armstrong is the author of the books Origamy and Invisible Ecologies.

Ep. 060 _ Rachel Armstrong _ 'Far From Equilibrium'

Dr. Kiang is a biometeorologist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York. She conducts research on the interaction between the biosphere and the atmosphere, focusing on life on land.&nbsp;Dr. Kiang also relates this work to research in astrobiology, particularly with regard to how photosynthetic activity produces signs of life at the global scale and how these may exhibit adaptations to alternative environments on extrasolar planets, resulting in other "biosignatures" that might be detected by space telescopes.

Ep. 063 _ Nancy Y. Kiang _ 'The Color of Plants on Other Worlds'

Alexander Eisenschmidt is the author of 'The Good Metropolis, Between Urban Formlessness and Metropolitan Architecture' Birkhauser, 2018 Alexander is a designer, theorist, and Associate Professor at the&nbsp;School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, where he teaches design studios and courses in history &amp; theory.

Ep. 064 _ Alexander Eisenschmidt _ 'The Good Metropolis

Today is a conversation with Charles Waldheim. Waldheim&nbsp;is a Canadian-American architect and urbanist. Waldheim’s research examines the relations between landscape, ecology, and contemporary urbanism. He is author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books on these subjects, and his writing has been published and translated internationally. Waldheim is John E. Irving Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design where he directs the School’s Office for Urbanization. Waldheim is recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the Visiting Scholar Research Fellowship at the Study Centre of the Canadian Centre for Architecture; the Cullinan Chair at Rice University; and the Sanders Fellowship at the University of Michigan&nbsp;   Today we’re talking about an article he wrote called ‘Aero-Gangplank and the Avant-Gard' which appeared in LOG 46. This episode is called ‘Overcoming Spatial Fixity’.&nbsp; I’m not sure that’s the BEST title for this conversation but we begin by discussing the development of airports in the 1950’s and the eventual use of gangplanks that get passengers from the terminal to the plane. This moves us to discussions of other examples within architecture that have sought to overcome fixity (from the kinetic movements of the Aero Gangplank, to Clip On’s &amp; Plug In’s of Archigram and others, to the non monumental system architecture of Cedric Price’s Fun Palace.&nbsp;   I thought it was a great conversation and I hope you enjoy.&nbsp;   A quick thanks you to the&nbsp;Graham Foundation in Chicago for supporting this program!&nbsp;   Until next time...Take care.&nbsp;

Ep. 067 _ Charles Waldheim _ 'OVercoming Spatial Fixity'

Elisa Iturbe is a critic at the Yale University School of Architecture (YSoA), where she also coordinates the dual-degree program between YSoA and the Yale School of Forestry &amp; Environmental Studies. Her writings have been published in&nbsp;Log,&nbsp;Dearq, and&nbsp;Pulp, in addition to a forthcoming piece in&nbsp;Perspecta. Most recently she guest edited&nbsp;Log&nbsp;47, titled&nbsp;Overcoming Carbon Form,&nbsp;an issue dedicated to redefining the relationship between architectural form and our dominant energy paradigm. She also co-wrote a book with Peter Eisenman titled&nbsp;Lateness, forthcoming in May 2020. In addition, she teaches studio, formal analysis, and a course on carbon form at the Cooper Union. She is cofounder of Outside Development, an architectural practice.

Ep. 068 _ Elisa Iturbe _ 'Carbon Form'

Jane Hutton is a landscape architect and Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Her research looks at the extended material flows of common construction materials and their social and ecological relations. Recent publications include Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements (Routledge, 2019) as well as an edited volume, Landscript 5: Material Culture – Assembling and Disassembling Landscapes (Jovis, 2017), and Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (Actar, 2019), co-edited with Daniel Ibanez and Kiel Moe.&nbsp;&nbsp;  A big thanks you to the Graham Foundation in Chicago for supporting this program!&nbsp;

Ep. _072 _ Jane Hutton _'Reciprocal Landscapes'

Just yesterday two astronauts launched into outer space from the United States for the first time in 9 years.&nbsp;Interesting side note, this launch was the first time in 40 years that NASA astronauts launched in a new space craft...The Space Shuttle had been around for over thirty years. Today is a conversation with Jeffrey Nesbit and we’re discussing the book ‘Extraterrestrial’ co edited by himself and Guy Trangos.&nbsp; In looking to the extraterrestrial, the book is a collection of essays from a range of disciplines about tied to the term- extraterrestrial. And as you’ll here in the discussion today, the book includes an array of perspectives for how the term ‘extraterrestrial’ might be beneficial for exploring our own existence here on earth.&nbsp;&nbsp;   As Jeffrey mentions during our discussion, extraterrestrial is more than just about that which originates ‘beyond’ our planet. This ‘extra’ along with the word ‘terrestrial’ also includes the heightening, exaggerating and intensifying of what we as humans or a planet might assume to be. Extraterrestrial might not be a found condition existing beyond us but something we strive to become. Becoming extraterrestrial! Now, I may have taken a bit of artistic or editorial license with that last sentence, but I like where it’s going. Maybe we can all strive to be a little more extraterrestrial these days!&nbsp;   Jeffrey S Nesbit is an architect, urbanist, and recently received his Doctor of Design degree (DDes) from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is a research fellow in the Office for Urbanization at Harvard and founding director of the research group&nbsp;Haecceitas Studio. His research focuses on processes of urbanization, infrastructure, and the evolution of "technical lands." Currently, Nesbit’s research examines the 20th-century American spaceport complex at the intersection of architecture, infrastructure, and aerospace history. He has written several journal articles and book chapters on infrastructure, urbanization, and the history of technology, and is co-editor of Chasing the City: Models for Extra-Urban Investigations (Routledge, 2018), Rio de Janeiro: Urban Expansion and Environment (Routledge, 2019), and New Geographies 11 Extraterrestrial (Actar, 2019). Nesbit has taught architecture and urbanism, along with leading many design studios and theory seminars at Harvard University, Northeastern University, University of North Carolina Charlotte, and Texas Tech University. He also holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Texas Tech University&nbsp;   A big thanks you to the Graham Foundation in Chicago for supporting this program!&nbsp;   Until next time...Take care.&nbsp;

Ep. 072 _ Jeffrey Nesbit _ 'Extraterrestrial'

Natasha Sandmeier’s work and research straddles the worlds of architecture and visualization – with a long-standing interest the role of media within the creation and production of speculative architectures and environments. She is an educator and leads the postgraduate Entertainment Studio at UCLA Architecture &amp; Urban Design. She is an architect and founding partner of Studio OUR, and the author and editor of Little Worlds (London, 2014); a monograph of projects and essays re-examining the role of the architect within contemporary architectural culture.&nbsp;  Links:  Deep Fake of Nancy Pelosi   Unreal Engine 5 launch   William Gibson Article

Ep. 074 _ Natasha Sandmeier _ 'Stranger than Fiction'

This week is a conversation with John May and we’re discussing a book he recently wrote called ‘Signal, Image, Architecture. It’s a short book with an objective to define the playing field today for this discussion. The book makes a clear distinction between that of a drawing, a photograph and an image. And in doing so makes it clear that those first two (drawing and photograph) are not what architects and designers are likely to be producing in school or practice anymore.  &nbsp;   Instead, we’re producing images that can look like a photograph or a drawing. The distinction is important because the argument could be made that we are not taking full advantage of the proclivities of the images and therefore not engaging the tools that might best help us understand and shape our times. There are fundamental differences to the image, and it’s best to understand them and how they are likely intertwined with how we engage many of the pressures surrounding us today. &nbsp;&nbsp;   John May is founding partner, with Zeina Koreitem, of&nbsp;MILLIØNS, a Los Angeles-based design practice. John May is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Director of the Master in Design Studies Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He previously served as a visiting professor at MIT, SCI-Arc, and UCLA, and was named 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Visiting Professor in Architecture at Rice University. He is the author of Signal, Image, Architecture and the founding co-director and co-editor (with Zeynep Çelik Alexander) of Design Technics: Archaeologies of Architectural Practice—an exploration of the philosophical and historical dimensions of contemporary design technologies.&nbsp;

Ep. 078 _ John May _ 'Signal, Image, Architecture'

Sean Lally’s work is a synthesis of two intense pressures on society today: humanity’s manipulation of the en­vironment and the bio engineering of the human body. The first is changing the makeup of the physical spaces we occupy and the second, the very body that perceives that space. Lally’s work with Weathers are experiments that report on potential futures ahead, ones that do not fall along the false dichotomy presented in the media that earth can only be preserved or destroyed. The work instead embraces the belief that for humanity to live sus­tainably and responsibly, earth’s environments, as well as the human body, will just have to artificially evolve together. Lally’s work speculates on the shapes and aesthetics of space including the social and political dynamics that will emerge when both the design of the environment and the human body are recognized as necessarily elastic for humanity to move forward.

 Lally received his Bachelors degree in Landscape Architecture from UMASS Amherst, his Masters in Architecture from UCLA and is a tenured associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the School of Architecture. Lally is the author of the The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come and recipient of the Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in Landscape Architecture.

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