A is for Architecture Podcast

Shayan Adham: Critical practice and the cosmopolitan imagination.


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In this episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Shayan Adham - architect, scholar and founder of Layers Studio, a design practice based in Iran, discusses his work and thinking. This is a detour from the podcast’s normal mode, but a happy one. Shayan presents work which I read as both deeply cultural and cosmopolitan, rooted in a critical engagement with the space he operates from, and the global context of architectural knowledge and practice. 

From the shores of the Caspian Sea, Shayan's reflections on architectural theory and education, perspectives on the evolution of architectural forms and thoughts on the intersection of memory and space, seems to me to be a distinct thing, an alternative reading of what it means to be a contemporary architect.

It’s kinda rare and lovely, and a bit different. 

Shayan can be found on Instagram.

🎧 Listen now. Get inspired. 

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Music credits: ⁠Bruno Gillick

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