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Interviews with architects, artists and designers. Produced by the Architecture Foundation and hosted by Matthew Blunderfield. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Níall McLaughlin (Live at POST PRESS)

Níall McLaughlin is this year's recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal—awarded for more than three decades of work ranging from a seaside bandstand at Bexhill to the Stirling Prize-winning library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. To mark the occasion, his practice has released a new book, published by Objectif Edition and co-edited with Bryony Jones. And it's far from your typical architecture…

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Michael Mack (Live at POST PRESS)

Michael Mack is the founder of London-based independent art and photography publishing house MACK . This conversation was recorded live at POST PRESS. More info and upcoming event tickets here . Thanks to VELUX for supporting the podcast: velux.com/design Link to the AF POST PRESS programme Books discussed: W. G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction (Hamish Hamilton, 2003) Le Corbusier,…

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Jonathan Tuckey

Jonathan Tuckey founded his design practice in 2000 having previously worked for David Chipperfield Architects and Fletcher Priest Architects. He has long been one of the UK's leading advocates for remodelling and radically transforming old buildings for modern uses. The podcast is supported this week by VELUX and features a short pre-reel interview with Thomas Vonier — architect and former…

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Morgan Day (Part 2)

Morgan Day is a writer based in Tucson Arizona who works across professional architecture writing and literary fiction. Her debut novel,The Oldest Bitch Alive, is out this month from Akoya Publishing in the UK, and Astra House in the US. “We tend to think of our bodies as having barriers, but we’re actually very porous. We’re in this constant state of becoming and effecting our environment, and…

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Morgan Day (Part 1)

Morgan Day is a writer based in Tucson Arizona who works across professional architecture writing and literary fiction. Her debut novel, The Oldest Bitch Alive , is out this month from Akoya Publishing in the UK, and Astra House in the US. “We tend to think of our bodies as having barriers, but we’re actually very porous. We’re in this constant state of becoming and effecting our environment, and…

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Jaakko Pallasvuo (Avocado Ibuprofen) Part 2

Part 2 of our interview with the Finnish artist and writer Jaakko Pallasvuo, author most recently of Amber (Rrose Editions, 2026) and Mouthing the Words (Khaos, 2025) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Jaakko Pallasvuo (Avocado Ibuprofen)

Jaakko Pallasvuo is a Helsinki-based artist and writer, best known for his Instagram account Avocado Ibuprofen . In this episode he reflects on the role he sees for art and writing in a world increasingly shaped by social media platforms and artificial intelligence, and he discusses his recently published collection of performance texts Mouthing the Words (Khaos, 2025). Scaffold is an Architecture…

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Vincenzo Latronico

Recorded live in London at the Barbican Centre earlier this month, this episode marks the publication of Order Prevails in Berlin , a new essay by the Italian novelist Vincenzo Latronico that acts as an autobiographical key to his highly acclaimed and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel Perfection . Published by the Architecture Foundation and translated by Sophie Hughes, Order Prevails in Berlin is…

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How Three Leading Architecture Practices Are Using AI Today

Architects from Herzog & de Meuron, Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects discuss how AI is entering the design studio, from generative design tools to new workflows shaping the future of practice. *This episode is supported by Chaos Group , and features a short conversation with the company's Head of Product Operations, Roderick Bates. Chaos develops visualization technologies that empower…

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Daryan Knoblauch

Daryan Knoblauch runs the eponymous architecture practice founded in 2024 in Berlin. His approach follows socio-cultural investigations of the present day, articulated in the form of cultural buildings, pavilions, and scenographies. The young Berlin studio works for clients such as Candela Capitán, Mowalola, Rombaut, and Judeline, among others, positioning architecture at the nexus of the…

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