Archinect Sessions

By Paul Petrunia, Donna Sink and Ken Koense

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A biweekly discussion of pressing architecture news and issues, hosted by Paul Petrunia, Donna Sink, and Ken Koense.

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Archinect Sessions episodes:

08.20.2021
Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Sam Jacob
Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus concludes today with our conversations with the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Today's final episode is a conversation with Sam Jacob. Sam Jacob Studio is a London-based practice that...
08.16.2021
Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Olalekan Jeyifous
Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus continues with sharing conversations with the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Today's episode is a conversation with Olalekan Jeyifous. Olelakan, who also goes by LEk, as I refer to...
08.09.2021
Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Future Firm
Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus continues with sharing conversations with the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Today's episode is a conversation with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm. Future Firm is a...
07.30.2021
Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Ecosistema Urbano
Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus continues with sharing conversations with the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Today's episode is a conversation with Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo of Ecosistema Urbano. Ecosistema Urbano is...
07.27.2021
Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Dream the Combine
Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus continues this week as we introduce the winners of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. This series was introduced last week with Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, the curators of Exhibit Columbus....
07.20.2021
Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Part 1: A Conversation with the Curators
Today, in partnership with Exhibit Columbus, we're introducing Next Up: Exhibit Columbus, our 5-part series of conversations with the curators of Exhibit Columbus and the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. More: https://archinect.com/news/article/150274759/next-up-exhibit-columbus-part-1-a-conversation-with-the-curators
12.24.2020
Goat Wisdom with Frances Anderton
On our year-end show Donna, Ken and I are joined by Frances Anderton. For those listeners that are in LA, Frances's voice is probably very familiar to you. Frances is the host of DnA, the radio show the focuses on...
09.28.2020
On Racial Inequality in AEC, with Karen Compton
On today’s episode of Archinect Sessions Donna and I are joined by Karen Compton, a Los Angeles-based business consultant, business owner and podcast host. As the Principal at A3K Consulting, Karen oversees a team of professionals to help clients in the AEC...
07.28.2020
A Conversation with Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia of WAI Architecture Think Tank
On today’s show Donna and I are joined by Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Architecture Think Tank. The last time we had Cruz and Nathalie on the podcast was for our Next Up series at the inaugural Chicago...
06.19.2020
Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 6/6
This is the final installment of Archinect Sessions' six-part series of conversations we've had with architects, designers, and others in the industry. The discussions address the challenges experienced navigating these uncertain times, from the stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus, to the...
06.11.2020
Archinect Sessions: Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 5/6
This is the fifth installment of Archinect Sessions six-part series of conversations we've had with architects, designers, and others in the industry. The discussions address the challenges experienced navigating these uncertain times, from the stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus,...
05.26.2020
Archinect Sessions: Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 4/6
This is the fourth part of Archinect Sessions six-part series of conversations we've had with architects, designers, and others in the industry. The discussions address the challenges experienced navigating these uncertain times, from the stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus, to the...
05.22.2020
Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 3/6
Today we share the third part of Archinect Sessions six-part series of conversations we've had with architects, designers, and others in the industry. The discussions address the challenges experienced navigating these uncertain times, from the stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus, to...
05.15.2020
Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 2/6
Today we share the second part of Archinect Sessions six-part series of conversations we've had with architects, designers, and others in the industry. The discussions address the challenges experienced navigating these uncertain times, from the stay-at-home orders due to the...
05.05.2020
Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 1/6
Today's installment of Archinect Sessions introduces the first of six episodes sharing conversations we've had with architects, designers. and others in the industry. The discussions address the challenges experienced navigating these uncertain times, from the stay-at-home orders due to the...
04.24.2020
Quarantine Check-In
This episode of Archinect Sessions was intended to be a brief introduction to a number of conversations we've been recording with members of the architecture community from around the world, checking in to see how people are coping through the...
03.06.2020
Paulette Singley helps us understand 'How to Read Architecture'
Today Donna, Ken and I are joined by Paulette Singley. Paulette is a respected architectural historian, educator and author. Her writing and editing expands beyond the world of architecture, looking at connections within the culinary arts and film. In today's...
02.13.2020
Director Alysa Nahmias on László Moholy-Nagy and The New Bauhaus
On this episode of Archinect Sessions we’re sharing a conversation I had with Alysa Nahmias, the director and producer of the documentary film “The New Bauhaus.” We recorded this conversation last month, poolside, a few hours before the film premiered to...
01.31.2020
What happened at The School of Architecture at Taliesin???
On this special (and very spontaneous) episode of Archinect Sessions we are joined with three members of the Taliesin community to help shed some light on the mysterious and disturbing sudden announcement of the closure of The School of Architecture at Taliesin....
11.28.2019
Giving Shelter
On this installment of Archinect Sessions, we’re sharing a conversation I had a couple of months ago with Sofia Borges and R. Scott Mitchell, the leaders of a design-build studio at USC that addressed one of the most pressing issues in Los...
10.28.2019
The Current State of LA's Architecture Student Publications
On this episode of Archinect Sessions we’re sharing the recording of a panel discussion I moderated last weekend at the A+D Museum, as part of the current exhibition The Los Angeles Schools. The panel brought together five students and three faculty members...
09.26.2019
Madame President Goes ALL-In
For Archinect Sessions episode #145 we are joined by Kimberly Dowdell, a principal at HOK in Chicago and the current President of the National Organization of Minority Architects. Our conversation covers Kimberly’s impressive path to success in architecture, and the leadership role she’s taking...
09.20.2019
The War on Cliché
On this episode, we're joined by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena. A long-familiar name to most of our listeners, Aravena’s work gained significant media attention upon winning the Pritzker Prize in 2016, elevating his reputation for working to address some of today’s most...
08.29.2019
Space Settlements; A Conversation with Author Fred Scharmen
This week we’re joined by one of our favorite regulars, Fred Scharmen. Fred currently teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University's School of Architecture and Planning, and is the Principal and Co-Founder of The Working Group on Adaptive...
07.04.2019
In Conversation with Paul Goldberger
We have a very special July 4th episode for you today. Today’s show offers a very American conversation with the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paul Goldberger. The discussion was recorded live at Archinect Outpost last month for the launch of his latest book Ballpark. ...
06.20.2019
A Conversation with Dream the Combine
On this latest episode of the Archinect Sessions podcast we're joined by Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers of the Minneapolis-based practice Dream the Combine. Jennifer and Tom are a husband and wife team that specialize in site-specific installations. Their work...
05.21.2019
Radical Reconfigurability
This week Ken and I are speaking with the leadership team responsible for the upcoming Brown University Performing Arts Center – Joshua Ramus of REX, Carl Giegold of Threshold Acoustics and David Rosenburg of Theatre Projects. The Brown University Performing Arts Center is a formally stunning project designed by REX...
04.30.2019
Olson Kundig's Alan Maskin on Icons and Architecture for Children
This week Ken and I are joined by Alan Maskin, partner and co-owner of Seattle-based Olson Kundig. Alan shares his story growing up on the East Coast, working as an artist and arts educator before moving onto architecture school in his 30s....
03.22.2019
Everything's Gonna Be Great
On this episode of Archinect Sessions we're joined by Eva Hagberg, a NY-based writer and architectural consultant. Our conversation covers Eva’s architectural studies at Princeton and Berkeley, and how that transitioned into a successful writing career spanning architecture criticism to writing about her own life in her recently published memoir How...
03.01.2019
From Tower Fantasies to Writing Realities
On this week's episode of Archinect Sessions we talk with Carlo Aiello, a Mexican-born, LA-based designer and founder of eVolo . Most of our readers are familiar with eVolo's (very) popular annual skyscraper competition and related series of books. Carlo, the...
02.15.2019
A Conversation with Theaster Gates
This week on Archinect Sessions we’re sharing our inspiring conversation with Theaster Gates. For those of you who aren’t already familiar with Theaster, you’re in for a treat. Theaster Gates often refers to himself as a potter, and while it’s...
02.07.2019
Afternoon Delight with Midnight Charette
This week we are joined, in studio, by David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, the hosts of the Midnight Charette podcast. You may be already familiar with their podcast, or perhaps you’ve just heard about the podcast since they released their episode with...
01.25.2019
A Conversation with Rusty Long, State Architect, Furloughed by the Government Shutdown
On this week's episode of Archinect Sessions Ken, Donna, and I share our conversation with Rusty Long, an architect based in Cary, North Carolina. Rusty’s private practice focuses on sustainability and community engagement with a style that bridges modernism and the history...
11.26.2018
A Conversation with Alex Baca on City Engagement
On this episode of Archinect Sessions we're joined with Alex Baca, a Washington DC-based journalist focused on smart cities, planning, bike advocacy and urban mobility devices. Recent news, and related controversy, surrounding Amazon’s newly announced move into New York City...
11.01.2018
A Conversation with Sou Fujimoto on the "Futures of the Future"
This week we’re sharing my conversation with Sou Fujimoto, recorded immediately before his new show opened to the press at Japan House in Hollywood last Friday. The show, titled “FUTURES OF THE FUTURE”, brings together large-scale renderings and photographs, along...
09.28.2018
Hip Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke
On this latest episode of Archinect Sessions we talk with Sekou Cooke, Syracuse-based architect, educator and curator of the upcoming exhibition at the Center for Architecture, "Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture", scheduled to open this Monday, October 1st in...
09.07.2018
Long Time Listener First Time Talker
This week's podcast episode is all about podcasting. So meta. We're joined by Sera Ghadaki, a recent graduate of Pratt M.Arch program, and a contributing editor of Tarp: Digital, Pratt’s podcast spinoff from their long-running student publication.
08.17.2018
Transparent Value
On this latest issue of the Archinect Sessions podcast Ken, Paul and Donna talk with Peggy Deamer and Shota Vashakmadze , from the Architecture Lobby . For those of you unfamiliar, the Architecture Lobby is a non-profit organization run by and for architectural workers that...
07.27.2018
Johnston Marklee, Live from the LA Design Festival
Earlier this summer I sat down with Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee to discuss their practice, Johnston Marklee, in front of a live audience at this year's LA Design Festival. We discuss the origin of their practice, their relationship to LA, the...
07.13.2018
Fear of Commitment
On this week's show, Archinect Sessions episode 124, Ken and Donna look back at this year's AIA National Convention in NYC.
07.06.2018
The LA Forum Reader Traces 30 Years of LA's Architectural Discourse
The LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design has offered a critical look at the city of Los Angeles since the late 80's. The nonprofit has been providing public programming, exhibitions, and publications through its ever-shifting board of directors and...
06.28.2018
From an All-Women-Led Commune to a Multi-Billion Dollar Startup
Last Wednesday, on the eve of the AIA National Convention, I had the pleasure of talking with Miguel McKelvey, co-founder of WeWork. The conversation was held in Midtown, in the Project 6 by AF showroom to an invited crowd of 75...
05.24.2018
Architecture of Disaster
This week we announced the release of our latest issue of our print journal, Ed, with the theme “Architecture of Disaster”. For today’s show I’m talking with Nicholas Korody, Ed’s editor-in-chief, to discuss this latest release. Nicholas talks about the conception of...
05.11.2018
Mental Health in Architecture
This week Ken, Donna and I are joined by architect and writer Esther Sperber to discuss the very real and serious issue of mental health in architecture. Esther owns Studio ST Architects, a small practice in New York City, and frequently writes about mental...
04.12.2018
Radical Candor
This week Ken, Donna and I talk about some topics in recent architecture news, along with a little discussion about dealing with criticism.
03.23.2018
Unzoning
This week we have Mike Eliason on the podcast, Seattle-based Project Manager at Patano Studio and proponent of Passivhaus, Baugruppen , and a car-free cycling life. Long-time Archinectors may recognize him by his username holzbox, OP to a forum favorite minimal details .
03.09.2018
Mitch McEwen and Marc Miller Steal the Mic
On this week's show we are trying out something new by inviting on guest hosts to take over the mics. Our guest hosts today, Mitch McEwen and Marc Miller, are familiar figures to regular listeners of this podcast and readers of Archinect. Mitch is...
02.22.2018
Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound
This week we release a relatively spontaneous , and completely silly, look at news and features recently published on Archinect. We also turn Ken's famous last 2 questions, "What are you reading and listening to" onto ourselves.
02.06.2018
A Conversation with Snow Kreilich Architects
On this episode of Archinect Sessions, Paul travels to Minneapolis to join Ken in a conversation with Julie Snow and Matt Kreilich of Snow Kreilich Architects, winner of the 2018 AIA Architecture Firm Award.
01.11.2018
Printing Architecture
This week, we are joined by Nicholas Korody, the Editor-in-Chief of Archinect's new print project Ed, and Ethel Baraona Pohl, co-founder of Barcelona-based architecture publisher dpr-barcelona. We discuss the increasingly-niche industry of architectural print publishing, and the evolving value it offers as...

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Archinect Sessions episodes:

Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Sam Jacob

Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Olalekan Jeyifous

Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Future Firm

Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Ecosistema Urbano

Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Dream the Combine

Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Part 1: A Conversation with the Curators

Goat Wisdom with Frances Anderton​

On Racial Inequality in AEC, with Karen Compton

A Conversation with Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia of WAI Architecture Think Tank

Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 6/6

Archinect Sessions: Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 5/6

Archinect Sessions: Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 4/6

Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 3/6

Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 2/6

Conversations with the Architecture Community, Part 1/6

Quarantine Check-In

Paulette Singley helps us understand 'How to Read Architecture'

Director Alysa Nahmias on László Moholy-Nagy and The New Bauhaus

What happened at The School of Architecture at Taliesin???

Giving Shelter

The Current State of LA's Architecture Student Publications

Madame President Goes ALL-In

The War on Cliché

Space Settlements; A Conversation with Author Fred Scharmen

In Conversation with Paul Goldberger

A Conversation with Dream the Combine

Radical Reconfigurability

Olson Kundig's Alan Maskin on Icons and Architecture for Children

Everything's Gonna Be Great

From Tower Fantasies to Writing Realities

A Conversation with Theaster Gates

Afternoon Delight with Midnight Charette

A Conversation with Rusty Long, State Architect, Furloughed by the Government Shutdown

A Conversation with Alex Baca on City Engagement

A Conversation with Sou Fujimoto on the "Futures of the Future"

Hip Hop Architecture with Sekou Cooke

Long Time Listener First Time Talker

Transparent Value

Johnston Marklee, Live from the LA Design Festival

Fear of Commitment

The LA Forum Reader Traces 30 Years of LA's Architectural Discourse

From an All-Women-Led Commune to a Multi-Billion Dollar Startup

Architecture of Disaster

Mental Health in Architecture

Radical Candor

Unzoning

Mitch McEwen and Marc Miller Steal the Mic

Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound

A Conversation with Snow Kreilich Architects

Printing Architecture

Goat Wisdom with Frances Anderton