logo
episode-header-image
Nov 2023
55m 17s

93: Tosin Oshinowo

The Architecture Foundation
About this episode

Tosin Oshinowo is a Lagos-based architect and curator of the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial.


Titled "The beauty of Impermanence, an Architecture of Adaptability," this year’s triennial considers design solutions built from conditions of scarcity and explores how this might impact sustainable design today. 


This interview was recorded in Sharjah during the opening weekend of the Triennial in mid November 2023, and the conversation began by addressing the triennial itself, before unfolding into a more personal discussion of the contradictions that emerge between the exhibition and Oshinowo's practice.


---


Book tickets for upcoming Architecture on Stage lectures by Duncan Lewis (Tuesday November 21st) and Sam Chermayeff with Jack Self (Wednesday November 29th).





Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Up next
Jul 31
Paul Shepheard
Paul Shepheard is a British architect and writer known for his philosophical and multidisciplinary approach to architecture. Shepheard was a student at the Architectural Association in the 1960’s, and has worked both in practice, for the likes of James Gowan, and in academia, tea ... Show More
1h 5m
Jul 4
Fredi Fischli (Kontextur Podcast Festival)
Recorded live from the Kontextur Podcast Festival at Khaus in Basel, this episode features a conversation with the curator Fredi Fischli. Fredi Fischli, along with Niels Olsen, is co-curator and co-director of exhibitions at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architectur ... Show More
52m 40s
Jun 20
Crit: Venice Biennale with Emily Conklin, Fabrizio Gallanti & Phin Harper
A month after the opening of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, we've invited three critics to come on the show to help make sense of what was arguably one of the most content overloaded, and curitorially ambiguous biennales in recent memory.Since its inception in 1980, Th ... Show More
1h 22m
Recommended Episodes
Jan 2024
What can African architecture teach the world about sustainability?
'The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability.’ Think about architecture and you probably think about tall buildings of steel and glass. But the theme of this year’s Sharjah Architecture Triennial is design influenced by scarcity – and how we can build in a way tha ... Show More
18m 13s
Nov 2023
#370 - After Hours: Tahoe Lighthus + The Value of Architecture
This week David and Marina of FAME Architecture & Design discuss their stay at the Lighthus, a vacation rental home designed by Peripherie Design Studio's William Liow, AIA. The two cover the design of the home, the value of architecture, communicating to clients, what architects ... Show More
1h 7m
Apr 2020
66 — Zaha Hadid — 1/4 — AA Days
In our first episode on Zaha Hadid, we dive into the spell-binding work of one of the most famous, controversial and interesting architects of her generation. We begin by imagining the unique atmosphere of the Architectural Association in the 1970s, where Zaha was a student, taug ... Show More
58m 26s
Aug 2022
Episode 121: Industrial designer and founder of Reef Design Lab Alex Goad talks about the amazing things you can do with coral reef restoration technology
Alex Goad is passionate about using design for marine restoration and the role it is playing to communicate research to the wider public. His work is focused on combining digital fabrication with traditional techniques to create economically viable habitat solutions that respond ... Show More
29m 12s
Jun 2020
70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
This is the first episode of a new series on Design Theorist, Architect, Mathematician and Computation Fan, Christopher Alexander. Alexander studied Mathematics at Cambridge University in the 1950s, then undertook the first ever PhD in Architecture at Harvard, where he applied ne ... Show More
48m 56s
Feb 2019
48 — OMA 1989 — Going Big
Rem Koolhaas and the firm he founded with three partners in 1975 — Office of Metropolitan Architects, OMA — are fascinating, critical and provocative presence within the architectural culture of the 1970s and 1980s, riding the wave of the crisis of modernist collapse while positi ... Show More
1h 17m
Aug 2022
#299 - Design Review: "The Line" City Proposal by Neom, Saudi Arabia
This week David and Marina discuss The Line. The Line is a city proposal by Neom development and the Saudi Arabian Government. The two cover the video presentation of the project, its sustainability claims, its impact on the natural environment, its livability, utopian projects, ... Show More
54m 28s
Mar 2024
Building with a Future Vernacular | Wael Al Awar
Wael Al Awar is an architect and founder of waiwai alongside Kazuma Yamao — an architectural, landscape, urban, interior and graphic design studio with offices in Dubai and Tokyo. Waiwai takes a highly contextual approach to address social, environmental and technological questio ... Show More
1 h
Oct 2023
The Art Angle Presents: Artist Conrad Shawcross and Simon de Pury on Perceptions of Time
For more than 30 years, the acclaimed British sculptor Conrad Shawcross has been preoccupied with the concept of time. Throughout a career defined by blurring the boundaries between art and science and devising ambitious constructs that ask audiences to contemplate the world arou ... Show More
41m 34s
Nov 2022
Episode 131: Tone Wheeler shares his views on some famous & recently-deceased Australian architects and architectural educators
Architect, lecturer, columnist and founder of environa studio Tone Wheeler shares his many thoughts about the evolution of architectural teaching in Australia as well as the concept of architectural engineering. You can also see Tone Wheeler live at the 2022 Sustainability Summit ... Show More
32 m