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  • Witold Rybczynski: Coming to terms with architecture.

    October 20, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast architectural totem, Canadian American architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski, Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke with me about his forthcoming book…

  • Cat Rossi and Charles Holland: Design as method and object.

    October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    This episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast features a brace of professors, Cat Rossi and Charles Holland, both of UCA and Charles, Founder director of Charles Holland Architects. We met in the English port town of Dover to discuss…

  • Antony Wood: Tall buildings and sustainable vertical urbanism.

    October 2, 2026 · 54 min

    In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Professor Antony Wood PhD, Tall Building Expert, Professor of Sustainable Vertical Urbanism at the Illinois Institute of Technology, author, architect and former president and CEO of…

  • Mabel O. Wilson: Spaces of liberation.

    September 26, 2026 · 54 min

    In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Mabel O. Wilson - architect, historian, and professor at Columbia University, director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies - speaks about Thinking from Black: A…

  • JL Williams: Architecture, dreams, metaphor & poetry.

    September 18, 2026 · 1 hr 27 min

    In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, poet and Creative Projects Manager at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, JL Williams, spoke to me about her recent collection of poetry, Strange Architectures, her fifth book of such with…

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  • Shumi Bose: Words relating to theory.

    September 12, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, I spoke to Shumi Bose, about her work as a curator, chief editor of KoozArch, senior lecturer in architecture at Central Saint Martins in London and, I’d suggest, something like an…

  • Maximillian Sternberg: Hans Dollgast: Designing in history

    September 5, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Professor Max Sternberg discuss the Bavarian architect Hans Döllgast, the subject of his latest book, Hans Döllgast: Reconstruction and Modernity, which is being published by Lund…

  • Ole Bouman: Bicycles, buildings and an ethic of care.

    August 28, 2026 · 56 min

    Architecture’s conscience – as building, buildings, materials and practices – is a bolt-on at best, but more often a semantic, sophistic trick. Architecture as a profession talks ethically but it’s very difficult to see where this…

  • Maria Fusco: Site writing, sensing, place.

    August 20, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    As architects, the nature of buildings is as drawings. Even when on site, a building is read in terms of its relationship to the documents off its legal production, preeminent among which – after the contract - are the plan and elevation…

  • Gabriella Bennett: Other possible cities.

    July 31, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    What would a failing city look like? Would one be able to tell if, for example, London or New York were a busted flush? What would be the markers? Social discord, unwalkable streets, cultivated inequality and polarization, declining mental…

  • Timothy Soar: Images of architecture.

    July 16, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

    As George Berkeley almost almost said, if architecture is built in a city but no one takes its picture, does it make a sound? Photography is intrinsic to architecture, so much so that most of us only know buildings through the images made…

  • Irénée Scalbert: Earth City Architecture.

    July 3, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    After the exhaustion of modernist functionalism and Koolhaasian bigness, architecture should be reconceived within the limits of the earth, as craft, stewardship, locality and bricolage. In short, architecture is just more complicated than…

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Explore the world of architecture with the A is for Architecture Podcast hosted by Ambrose Gillick. Through conversations with designers, scholars and practitioners, Ambrose unpacks the creative and theoretical dimensions of architecture. Whether you're a professional, student, or design enthusiast, the A is for Architecture Podcast offers the best insights into how buildings shape society and society shapes buildings. To keep it free and good, subscribe to the podcast on Patreon. The podcast is not affiliated with Ambrose's place of works.