Scaffold

By The Architecture Foundation

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Interviews with architects, artists and designers. Produced by the Architecture Foundation and hosted by Matthew Blunderfield.

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Scaffold episodes:

05.23.2024
104: Hermann Czech with David Kohn
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...
05.10.2024
103: Takaharu & Yui Tezuka
Takaharu and Yui Tezuka founded Tezuka Architects in 1994 and are best known for their experimental designs for schools and kindergartens, chief among them the Fuji School in Tokyo. They are currently fundraising to build a new orphanage and school...
04.18.2024
102: Phineas Harper
Phineas Harper develops cultural programmes that engage broad audiences with architecture and design. A regular contributor to The Guardian and former Chief Executive of Open City, their career spans criticism, curation, education, youth engagement, journalism and sculpture. "I see my work...
04.03.2024
63: Asif Khan (April 2022)
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...
03.20.2024
101: Fernanda Eberstadt
Fernanda Eberstadt is a New York born writer living in Europe. She has published five novels and two books of non-fiction, the latest of which is BITE YOUR FRIENDS: STORIES OF THE BODY MILITANT. "Art lies in the cracks, the...
03.07.2024
100: Cristina Gamboa (Lacol)
Cristina Gamboa is a co-founder of the Barcalona-based architecture cooperative Lacol. "We are constantly fighting with budgets, and are often left with what is absolutely necessary – a “pure” architecture. […] When the manzanas [Cerda’s urban grid for Barcelona] were built without...
02.22.2024
99: Takero Shimazaki
Takero Shimazaki is director of the London-based practice t–sa, which he co-founded with Yuli Toh in 1996. "You can’t control everything as an architect. You can’t dictate everything – that’s not the point. Instead it’s quite exciting to be liberating, to...
02.09.2024
98: Jamie Fobert
“The artist working alone in their studio is the antithesis of what we do every day as architects […] and yet one hopes that the work you produce might have the same resonance.” Jamie Fobert a Canadian-born architect who has found...
01.24.2024
97: Apparata
Nicholas Lobo Brennan and Astrid Smitham founded Apparata, their London-based architecture practice, in 2016. "What we are always trying to do is a kind of activism, but the activism is entirely expressed and developed through prosaic things – literally, where is...
12.29.2023
96: Hans Ulrich Obrist (Part 2)
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. This episode features Part 2 of his interview for Scaffold. (Listen to part 1 here). "There is a different kind of time in the studio...
12.20.2023
95: Hans Ulrich Obrist (Part 1)
Hans Ulrich Obrist is a curator and Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London. "We need protected spaces for art, yes – that's why we have museums – but we need also to find ways to actually go from from...
11.29.2023
94: Rural Urban Framework
Rural Urban Framework is a research and design collaborative based at the University of Hong Kong, directed by Joshua Bolchover and John Lin. Conducted as a non-profit organization designing for charities and NGOs working in China, RUF has built over...
11.16.2023
93: Tosin Oshinowo
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...
11.02.2023
92: Resolve Collective
RESOLVE is the Croydon-based collective practice of Akil Scafe-Smith, Seth Scafe-Smith and Melissa Haniff. “We want people to look at our work and think: “I could do that” - if it means it doesn’t look amazing, and it can’t go...
10.12.2023
Dank Lloyd Wright (Power & Public Space)
Scaffold is on holiday this week – instead here's an interview with the IG architecture meme account Dank Lloyd Wright recorded last year for the podcast Power and Public Space, co-produced by Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation. A new...
09.28.2023
91: Theo de Meyer
Theo de Meyer is an architect based in Ghent whose work moves between architecture, design and the arts. He and doorzon interieur architecten together represent the core of the modular collective Stand Van Zaken (‘State of Affairs’), who create furniture...
09.13.2023
90: Tony Fretton (Part 2)
Tony Fretton founded his eponymous architecture practice in 1982. His early work in London, including the Lisson Gallery (1986-1992), was influential in defining a new approach to architecture focused on urban context and daily life. “By the time I graduated, London...
08.31.2023
89: Tony Fretton (Part 1)
Tony Fretton founded his eponymous architecture practice in 1982. His early work in London, including the Lisson Gallery (1986-1992), was influential in defining a new approach to architecture focused on urban context and daily life. “By the time I...
08.16.2023
88: About Buildings + Cities
Luke Jones and George Gingell are hosts of the podcast About Buildings and Cities. "We’re interested in getting into things that are obscure [in architectural history], but we’re also interested in looking at things that are super obvious. […] Taking...
08.02.2023
87: Ben Bowling
Ben Bowling is Professor of Criminology at Kings College London, and the son of the celebrated painter Frank Bowling, whose studio he now manages. "Frank always wanted children, but did not want to be a father, because of his own father’s...
07.19.2023
86: Asli Çiçek
Asli Çiçek is an Architect and writer based in Brussels, whose work focuses on scenography and exhibition design. "Culture is not a luxury. I don’t like populistic discussions about what culture should be or how history should be flattened to...
07.05.2023
85: Charlotte Cooper
Charlotte Cooper is the author of Poundbury: a Queer Tour of Monarchy, published earlier this year by 33 Editions. "One of my bugbears about Poundbury is that it’s not an honest place – it’s pretending to be something that it...
06.21.2023
84: Robin Winogrond
Robin Winogrond is a Landscape Architect based in Zurich. "I try to never look at what I expect to see, but to see in a raw way, in an uninformed way, I try to read space and atmospheres in the most...
05.26.2023
83: Karin Templin (At Home in London: The Mansion Block)
Karin Templin is an architect, educator, and author of the book At Home in London: The Mansion Block, co-published by The Architecture Foundation and MACK. This book is first in a series on types of London housing, reflecting on the...
05.18.2023
62: Lesley Lokko (April 2022)
This episode originally aired in April 2022. Lesley Lokko is founder of the African Futures Institute and curator of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. “I don’t see myself as being ‘the future’, but the expanded field [of architecture] that I’ve operated...
05.11.2023
82: Sumayya Vally
Sumayya Vally is a Musilm South African architect, and founder of the practice Counterspace. “Architecture is abstract, and I think what I’m doing in my practice is making a concerted effort to find different sources for the origins of that...
04.20.2023
81: David Gissen
David Gissen is a New York-based author, designer, and educator who works in the fields of architecture, landscape, and urban design. His book, The Architecture of Disability (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) has been praised as “an exhilarating manifesto” and a...
04.06.2023
80: b+
b+ is a collaborative architecture practice that operates across different media and formats. The practice seeks to engage with challenges of eco-social transformation and adaptive reuse, and to contribute to the societal transformation with ecologically and economically viable answers. “Why does...
03.16.2023
79: Julian Opie
Julian Opie is an artist based in London. We create models to deal with the world and to function in the world. It’s how we perceive the world and our own life and existence, drawing from the world a language that...
03.03.2023
78: Carmody Groarke
Carmody Groarke is an architecture practice based in London. "This idea of thinness [of surfaces] has to do with pragmatism and thrift, but it's also a contemporary challenge of buildings – now that we've disassembled the monolithic way of traditional construction...
02.10.2023
77: Albert Williamson Taylor (Part 2)
Albert Williamson Taylor is a design engineer and founder of AKT II. “The goal has always got to be the project – the design – everything else is just an inconvenience. Even deciding to start a practice was very much that. It’s...
02.02.2023
76: Albert Williamson Taylor (Part 1)
Albert Williamson Taylor is a design engineer and founder of AKT II. “The goal has always got to be the project – the design – everything else is just an inconvenience. Even deciding to start a practice was very much that....
01.20.2023
75: Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand is an artist working in Berlin and Los Angeles "When architects look at my work it’s like when you show your work to your mother – she looks at something completely different than when you show your work to...
01.05.2023
49: Esther Choi (July 2021)
This episode was recorded in October of 2020, and originally aired in July of 2021. Esther Choi is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist and writer trained in photography and architectural history and theory. “[In Le Corbuffet] I was trying to...
12.22.2022
43: Sara Hendren (October 2020)
This episode originally aired in October 2020 Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Olin College of Engineering. “Disability knocks at the foundations of individualism […] If needfulness is actually universal, and if slowness is also part of...
12.09.2022
74: Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick is a designer and founder of Heatherwick Studio in London. "I’m inspired by people who don’t try to impress other people in their profession [...] The people who really matter are the public who you are doing projects for....
11.25.2022
73: Tacita Dean
Tacita Dean is a visual artist who works in Berlin and Los Angeles "The direction in which I’m going is never fixed. Because I don’t know where I’m going, I’m very able to change direction. . . only at the...
11.11.2022
72: Sam Chermayeff
Sam Chermayeff is an architect based in Berlin. "The success of all interiors are specifics – specific wobbles, specific things in the way, specific dirt behind the ears of a house […] It’s wildly inefficient way of designing […] and it...
10.28.2022
71: Soft Baroque
Nicholas Gardner and Saša Štucin founded the design practice Soft Baroque in 2013, and are currently based in Ljubljana. “For us, the satisfaction of buying something pales in comparison to even pushing a button and hitting print on a 3D printer...
10.14.2022
70: Richard Wentworth
Richard Wentworth is an artist based in London. "Without feeling sorry for myself, I feel like a bit of a misfit […] I don’t really have a tidy sense of where [I belong]. I want to be effective. I would...
09.29.2022
69: Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie is an architect based in Boston who first came to prominence through his Habitat 67 project, a modular housing prototype constructed for the Montreal Expo in 1967. Safdie's memoir, If Walls Could Speak, has just been published by...
09.01.2022
68: Deem Journal
Deem Journal co-founders Nu Goteh, Alice Grandoit and Marquise Stillwell discuss an expanded definition of design as a social process. “publishing is a ritual act of listening, and for us we’re really trying to orient ourselves to become better listeners,...
08.11.2022
67: Flores & Prats
Flores & Prats are an architecture practice based in Barcelona. “The theatre and the common spaces are the same experience. Going to the theatre is not getting into a room where you suddenly forget the outside world, going to the...
07.13.2022
Introducing: Power & Public Space
Introducing Power & Public Space, a new podcast from Drawing Matter and the Architecture Foundation. This episode features a conversation with professor Mabel O. Wilson on the Memorial to Enslaved Labourers at the University of Virginia. Listen to the full...
06.09.2022
66: Max Pinckers
Max Pinckers is a photographer based in Brussels. “The subject and themes [of my photographs] are a reflection of how I see photography, or how I want to deal with photography - the subject matter is always a mirror for the...
05.26.2022
65: Freek Persyn
Freek Persyn is professor of architecture and urban transformation at ETH in Zurich, and together with Johan Anrys and Peter Swinnen founded the practice 51N4E in 1998. “Architecture is not often talked about in terms of transience, its very much focusing...
05.12.2022
64: Carla Juaçaba
Carla Juacaba is a Brazilian architect based in London. “I’m compelled by theatre for its impermanence, that things end, in a way that it’s not even possible to record; it’s very fascinating to see things dissipating, then that’s it. When I...
04.28.2022
63: Asif Khan
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...
04.14.2022
62: Lesley Lokko
Lesley Lokko is founder of the African Futures Institute and curator of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. “I don’t see myself as being ‘the future’, but the expanded field [of architecture] that I’ve operated in for most of my life has...
03.24.2022
61: James Taylor Foster
James Taylor Foster is a writer and curator of contemporary architecture and design at ArkDes. "When I think about curatorial practice I start to think about what it means to nest in the complexity of things […] There’s an ambition to...

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Scaffold episodes:

104: Hermann Czech with David Kohn

103: Takaharu & Yui Tezuka

102: Phineas Harper

63: Asif Khan (April 2022)

101: Fernanda Eberstadt

100: Cristina Gamboa (Lacol)

99: Takero Shimazaki

98: Jamie Fobert

97: Apparata

96: Hans Ulrich Obrist (Part 2)

95: Hans Ulrich Obrist (Part 1)

94: Rural Urban Framework

93: Tosin Oshinowo

92: Resolve Collective

Dank Lloyd Wright (Power & Public Space)

91: Theo de Meyer

90: Tony Fretton (Part 2)

89: Tony Fretton (Part 1)

88: About Buildings + Cities

87: Ben Bowling

86: Asli Çiçek

85: Charlotte Cooper

84: Robin Winogrond

83: Karin Templin (At Home in London: The Mansion Block)

62: Lesley Lokko (April 2022)

82: Sumayya Vally

81: David Gissen

80: b+

79: Julian Opie

78: Carmody Groarke

77: Albert Williamson Taylor (Part 2)

76: Albert Williamson Taylor (Part 1)

75: Thomas Demand

49: Esther Choi (July 2021)

43: Sara Hendren (October 2020)

74: Thomas Heatherwick

73: Tacita Dean

72: Sam Chermayeff

71: Soft Baroque

70: Richard Wentworth

69: Moshe Safdie

68: Deem Journal

67: Flores & Prats

Introducing: Power & Public Space

66: Max Pinckers

65: Freek Persyn

64: Carla Juaçaba

63: Asif Khan

62: Lesley Lokko

61: James Taylor Foster

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