For decades, a handful of architects shaped cities, skylines, and the public imagination. They were ambitious, controversial, sometimes flawed, and often brilliant. We called them starchitects.

Today, almost all of them are gone, or well into their seventies, eighties, and nineties. And strangely, no new generation has replaced them.

In this episode, we look at the data behind the rise and disappearance of the starchitect, ask why no young global architectural figures are emerging, and explore how regulation, mega firms, public backlash, and fear of ambition have quietly reshaped the profession.

This is not a nostalgic defense of flashy buildings or big egos. It is an argument about vision, authorship, and why architecture, and society as a whole, might be worse off without people willing to push boundaries, take risks, and occasionally fail in public.

A critical, opinionated episode about ambition, innovation, and what we lose when architecture becomes safe, polite, and predictable.