A tale of bats and bridges and how the built environment and the natural environment don’t need to be at odds with one another.
Jan 2023
295: The Life and Times of a Building Enclosure Specialist
Alan Jalón, Director of Architectural Technology at Genesis AEC, joins us for episode 295 of Art of Construction. Since its inception, Genesis AEC – an award-winning architecture, engineering, and construction firm – has helped life sciences companies usher in the next generation ... Show More
40m 29s
Oct 2023
EA531: Trevor Abransom - Running a Design-Intensive Architecture Practice
Running a Design-Intensive Architecture PracticeWith over three decades of commitment to his craft, Trevor Abramson strives to promote the art of architecture by evoking a deeply felt emotional and spiritual response from clients, critics, and the public. His work responds to his ... Show More
42m 19s
Sep 2023
Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson on how materials have changed their practice.
Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson co-founded the hugely influential design studio, Pearson Lloyd, in 1997. Since then, it has gone on to work in areas such as the workplace, transport and health care, with organisations like Virgin, Lufthansa, the Department for Health, and furniture gi ... Show More
1h 5m
Nov 2021
Barbara White Bryson, "Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes: How Leadership, Collaboration, and Decision-Making Drive Architecture and Construction" (Routledge, 2020)
Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes: How Leadership, Collaboration, and Decision-Making Drive Architecture and Construction (Routledge, 2020) demonstrates the importance of creating cultures in the design and construction industries grounded in sophisticated-caring leaders ... Show More
39m 4s
Nov 2023
Neil Thomas on building with bamboo.
Neil Thomas is the founder and director of Atelier One, one of the most creative engineering practices in the UK. The firm has worked on building projects such as Singapore Arts Centre, Federation Square in Australia, and Baltic in Gateshead, as well as with a hugely impressive r ... Show More
56m 18s
Nov 2021
EA422: Chris Fogarty – How Fogarty Finger Built a Thriving Architecture Firm
How Fogarty Finger Built a Thriving Architecture Firm Prior to founding Fogarty Finger in 2003, Chris Fogarty was a Senior Designer at Skidmore Owings and Merrill Architects (SOM) in the London, Washington DC and New York Offices, playing a significant role in national and intern ... Show More
1h 1m
Mar 2022
403: Can Buildings Make Us Happier? with Bruce Haden
This week, we have Bruce Haden, Co-Founder of Human Studio, a design and architecture firm based in Vancouver, Canada. In his work as an architect, Bruce saw a problem. He found that he often lacked hard metrics and data to inform or at least justify design decisions. As a result ... Show More
39m 44s
Oct 2021
Antoine Picon, "The Materiality of Architecture" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In The Materiality of Architecture (U Minnesota Press, 2021), an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the ... Show More
26m 5s
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