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Apr 2024
1h 12m

Asif Khan (April 2022)

The Architecture Foundation
About this episode

This episode originally aired in April 2022; Scaffold will be back with a new episode next week.


Asif Khan is a designer of buildings, landscapes, exhibitions and installations.


“It’s helpful sometimes to think that architecture is made up. All of this cannon, all of this writing, all of this schooling […] let’s just imagine it’s a religion of some sort that you’re operating within, but before that religion there were other religions, and so it’s about stepping outside of that world and seeing what else is possible.”


Scaffold is an Architecture Foundation production, hosted by Matthew Blunderfield. 


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