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FAQs about The Arch. Ed. Podcast:How many episodes does The Arch. Ed. Podcast have?The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.
May 10, 2018Episode 32: Limpopo Diaries, Part 3For almost ten years, second-year Architecture students at the University of Nottingham have been building small educational buildings in South Africa. This year, the Department of Architecture and Built Environment invited me to participate in the 2017/18 edition of the project, building a small crèche in the village of Mothopong, near Tzaneen in Limpopo Province for the Thušanang Trust. The Trust is a non-profit founded in 1986 to train teachers and establish community-based Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres....more48minPlay
April 22, 2018Episode 31: Limpopo Diaries, Part TwoFor almost ten years, second-year Architecture students at the University of Nottingham have been building small educational buildings in South Africa. This is the second in a series of podcasts to be recorded while I was participating in the project as a guest academic staff member. In this episode, recorded in South Africa during week three of the four-week build (and week one of phase two) I speak once again to structural engineers Lois Plaistow and Steve Wickham of Price & Myers; project manager Pete Russell, Thušanang Trust Director Terry Morgan and University of Nottingham Faculty of Engineering Project Officer Tony Gospel....more45minPlay
April 08, 2018Episode 30: Limpopo Diaries, Part OneThis is the first in a series of podcasts to be recorded during the University of Nottingham's 2017/18 live project in South Africa. This year's crêche was designed by a group of three second-year students in the second year of Nottingham's ARB/RIBA Part 1 Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) programme. It will be built by approximately thirty students in two consecutive two-week phases over the four weeks of the 2018 Easter vacation. I'm in South Africa for phase two....more45minPlay
April 03, 2018Episode 29: Bryan Bell, Design Corps, SEED, & NC StateThe 2017 AAE conference (see episode 26) presented the opportunity to sit down with Bryan Bell, Founder and Executive Director of Design Corps and Associate Professor of Architecture at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. We spoke about his experiences of architectural education and practice, from studying under Peggy Guggenheim to meeting and working with Sam Mockbee. After grad school, he worked for a brief period in the office of Steven Holl before realising his calling lay elsewhere....more36minPlay
March 19, 2018Episode 28: Regina Loukotová, ARCHIP, PragueIn the second of two episodes from the Czech Republic, this podcast features an interview with Regina Loukotová, Rector of ARCHIP (the Architecture Institute in Prague). Founded in 2010 and enrolling its first students in 2011, ARCHIP is a private school of architecture in Prague, offering undergraduate and graduate programmes in English. Founded by Loukotová and her late husband Martin Roubík (1949–2008), ARCHIP was established to change the way in which architecture was taught and discussed in the Czech Republic....more28minPlay
March 12, 2018Episode 27: Henri Achten, MOLAB, ČVUT PragueDr Henri Achten is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University (České vysoké učení technické v Praze, CVUT), Prague, and Director of MoLab, the Faculty's Experimental Design Studio, researching parametric & performative design thinking, contemporary design theory, and rapid prototyping in the design process, as well as offering design studio units with a focus in these areas to students....more30minPlay
March 05, 2018Episode 26: AAE 2017 - Architecture Connects, September 2017The podcast's return continues with a look back at the fourth international conference of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE) Architecture Connects, held at Oxford Brookes University from 6-9 September 2017. The podcast begins with a conversation with the chair of the conference committee Jane Anderson, and continues with students and academic delegates from around the world....more41minPlay
February 25, 2018Episode 25: Richard HallAfter a break of almost a year, the podcast returns with a conversation recorded last autumn with Richard Hall, a few days before I left DMU. Recorded during the British political party conference season, we discuss Richard's work in education, his politics, and his beloved Walsall F.C....more44minPlay
March 13, 2017Episode 24: live from day two of NCBDS 33For the third year running, the Arch. Ed. Podcast is in the USA for the annual National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. This episode includes conversations with delegates on the second day of the conference....more36minPlay
March 11, 2017Episode 23: live from day one of NCBDS 33For the third year running, the Arch. Ed. Podcast is in the USA for the annual National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. This episode includes conversations with co-chairs and delegates on the first full day of the conference....more23minPlay
FAQs about The Arch. Ed. Podcast:How many episodes does The Arch. Ed. Podcast have?The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.