We're taking a break from One-to-One this week to set off fireworks and contemplate the potential future of a Trump Presidential Center. In the meantime, we present some of our favorite episodes related to this big ol' hot mess of a nation.

We've got it all:

 

• "Traditional" architecture, not necessarily just like Jefferson would have wanted: Building Our Best Nature: Archinect Sessions One-to-One #8 with Scott Merrill, winner of this year's Driehaus Prize
• The too-common tragedy of mass shootings: Queer Space, After Pulse: Archinect Sessions #69 ft. special guests James Rojas and S. Surface
• Seeing through anti-LGBTQ legislation: Due Protest: pushing back against HB-2 and fighting for interns on Archinect Sessions #64, ft. special guest Gregory Walker
• Gun-control in the classroom: Guns in the Studio: Texas' new campus carry law prompted Architecture Dean Fritz Steiner to resign. He joins us to discuss the law's effect on architecture education, on Archinect Sessions #55
• Public health crises from compromised infrastructure: Dispatch from Flint: How architects can help, on Archinect Sessions #54
• Good ol' American architecture institutions: Inside the Institute: Archinect Sessions goes to the AIA National Convention on Episode #30
• Interview with the architects who would become the designers for Obama's Presidential Center: "Starts with me, ends with us": A conversation with Tod Williams and Billie Tsien on Archinect Sessions Episode #22
• and, of course, hot dogs: Hot Dogs Around the World: James Biber, architect of US Pavilion "American Food 2.0" at EXPO Milan, joins us for Episode #31 of Archinect Sessions

I (Amelia) also personally recommend you check out these prior One-to-One's:

• The "Impossible" Car – Faraday Future's lead designer, Richard Kim, on One-to-One #17
• The Ascendancy of Theory: writer and theorist Sylvia Lavin on Archinect Sessions One-to-One #13
• The Art of Architecture Criticism: Archinect Sessions One-to-One #7 with Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for the New York Times
• Our brand new interview podcast "Archinect Sessions One-to-One" premieres today! Listen to episode #1 with Neil Denari