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May 2024
27m 15s

Hermann Czech with David Kohn

The Architecture Foundation
About this episode

This special episode of Scaffold features a brief interview with the Austrian architect Herman Czech conducted by David Kohn in advance of Czech's 10.05.2024 Architecture Foundation lecture. The interview was recorded at Kohn's recently completed Smart's Place project in Covent garden for Baylight Properties.


Czech's lecture coincided with a major retrospective of his work, Approximate Line of Action, that has been staged by FJK3 Contemporary Art Space in Vienna.


Special thanks this week to Crispin Kelly / Baylight Properties for their support.




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