Archispeak

Architects are anthropologists and psychologists too, right? Join us for a conversation about some behaviors we are observing during Covid-19 — along with everything else that's going on in the world right now — and how they might relate to architecture and design.

Evan and Cormac continue to nerd-out and do a deep dive into three buildings. Come along on the journey of experiencing capital "A" architecture during a time when it's practically impossible to do so.

Evan and Cormac nerd-out and go through a laundry list of great architecture that they've visited, hoping to narrow it down to do a deep dive into one building each in the next episode. Come along on the journey of experiencing capital "A" architecture during a time when it's practically impossible to do so.

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Evan and Cormac discuss an episode of Netflix's docuseries Abstract: The Art of Design that focused on Olafur Eliasson's philosophy, process, and work, and relate that to what we do in architecture.

Picking up from some cues in the last episode, we talk about the Eames' movie The Powers of Ten, a design studio Cormac is participating in at Auburn, good communication skills, the power of the diagram, putting construction on display, and more.

In this episode, we follow up on the homework assignment and watch the Citizen Architect movie... because, what else do you have to do?

We also welcome a special guest, Cormac's longtime-friend from architecture school Steven Hoffman, who was not only in the movie about the Rural Studio but was also a student and instructor there.

As the world continues to quarantine, Archispeak continues their conversation about the "new normal" of working from home (WfH) and tries to devise ways of finding positivity in a sea of negative news. Plus, there will be homework.

Sheltering-in-(work)place, WFH, technology, weird occurrences as people get used to online conference calls, virtual happy hour, cooking, grocery stores, entertainment, and more.

Archispeak wraps up the technology series with a discussion of the BIM BOP Conference, held June 28, 2019 on the University of Southern California (USC) campus.