Power & Public Space Podcast
1) Dank Lloyd Wright – Meme Space
Memes are increasingly permeating architectural discourse, with Instagram accounts like Dank Lloyd Wright “holding models of power to account, especially when power manifests as aesthetics.”The meme i...Show More
2) Ana Bonet Miro – Fun Palace
Since its conception in the 1960’s, the Fun Palace has circulated widely in architecture culture, and mainly through its provocative collages, characterized by giant space-frame trusses framing a flex...Show More
3) Markus Lähteenmäki – Monument to the Victims of the Revolution
Markus Lateenmaaki’s research explores, in part, how architecture became instrumental in the societal and cultural transformations that took place in revolutionary Russia. It’s worth noting this ...Show More
4) Mabel O. Wilson – Memorial to Enslaved Labourers, University of Virginia
In 2020 The Memorial to Enslaved Labourers opened at the University of Virginia, designed as a collaboration between Höweler+Yoon Architecture, Mabel O. Wilson, landscape architects Gregg Bleam and Fr...Show More
5) Andre Patrao – Chora L Works (Parc de la Villette)
Parc de la Villette was emblematic of the strong ties made between the disciplines of architecture and philosophy in the1980's, where “Deconstructivism” in particular became a theoretical framework th...Show More
6) Mark Wallinger – State Britain
Much of Mark Wallinger’s art exists in public space. He’s made films and performance pieces set in tube stations and airports, and was the first artist to occupy the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar S...Show More
7) Jonas Žukauskas – Forest Parts
When we think about public space, we tend to consider the street, the plaza, the park or the square - urban spaces for people to engage in civic life. In this episode Jonas Žukauskas discusses his con...Show More
8) Manuel Herz – Babyn Yar Synagogue
Last year the Swiss practice Manuel Herz Architects completed a wooden synagogue West of Kyiv at Babyn Yar, the site of one of the bloodiest massacres of the Second World War.In March 2022, as Russian...Show More
9) Lauren Bon – Bending the River
The concrete-lined LA River was built on top of a sprawling floodplain, which the land artist Lauren Bon seeks to reveal through a large-scale infrastructural project called “Bending the River Back to...Show More
10) Liza Fior – The Dalston Eastern Curve Garden
The Dalston Eastern Curve garden began as a meanwhile scheme, but over the past decade has embedded itself at the centre of one of London’s most rapidly gentrifying neighbourhoods; over time the garde...Show More