Scratching the Surface Podcast
1) 279. Thomas Weaver
Thomas Weaver is an architectural writer, teacher, critic, and editor. He is a commissioning editor at Park Books where he cofounded and edits the Gumshoe series, and has teaching appoints at Princeto...Show More
2) 278. Carlo Ratti
Carlo Ratti is an architect, engineer, author, and academic. He is the curator of the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture, where he developed the theme Intelligens: Natural, Artificial, Collective. H...Show More
3) 277. Maggie Gram
Maggie Gram is a writer, cultural historian, and designer. Sheâs the author of the new book, The Invention of Design, and her writing as appeared in n+1 and The New York Times. She also leads an exper...Show More
4) 276. Amale Andraos & Dan Wood
Amale Andraos and Dan Wood are the founders of WORKac, an architecture office working across a range of scales with an emphasis on public, cultural, or civic projects all around the world. Amale is al...Show More
5) 275. David Godshall & Kasey Toomey
David Godshall and Kasey Toomey are partners at Terremoto, a landscape architecture design studio based in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Founded by Godshall and Alain Peauroi, Terremoto creates garden...Show More
6) 274. Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby use design as a medium to interrogate our relationship to reality. They are the authors of multiple books, including 2013âs Speculative Everything and 2025âs Not Here, Not...Show More
7) 273. Nick Foster
Nick Foster is a futures designer and author of the new book Could Should Might Donât: How We Think About The Future. Trained as an industrial designer, he has spent his career exploring the future fo...Show More
8) 272. Joel Towers
Joel Towers is the president of The New School in New York City. Trained as an architect, President Towers joined the school in 2004, first as a faculty member and director of Sustainable Design and U...Show More
9) 211. Lydia Kallipoliti (Originally aired 3/30/22)
Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar. She is an assistant professor at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, the author of the book The Architecture of Closed Worlds and is the ...Show More
10) 194. Zak Kyes (Originally aired 8/4/21)
Zak Kyes is the creative director and founder of Zak Group where he leads projects for cultural and commercial clients across scales and mediums. From 2006 to 2016, he was the art director of the Arch...Show More