Thom Mayne and Eui-Sung Yi join us to discuss their recently published book, Haiti Now – a herculean resource on post-disaster urbanism in Haiti, published by their urban think tank, the NOW Institute.
The rest of this episode takes a look back at the first forty episodes of Archinect Sessions, as we wrap up season one. Each new episode has expanded, and sharpened, our idea of what the podcast can and should be. We've spoken with some pretty heavy hitters, including Denise Scott Brown, Kevin Roche, Patrik Schumacher, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Heatherwick, Christopher Hawthorne and Michael Rotondi, as well as some up and comers, like Andrés Jaque (winner of MoMA's 2015 YAP), Jimenez Lai, and Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki (winners of the Guggenheim Helsinki competition).
It's been a blast, but moving forward, we want to tighten up, dig deeper and move the proverbial furniture around. We'll start up season two in the coming weeks, but while we're on hiatus, we'd love to get your feedback – tell us what you think of the podcast by taking this short survey, or rating us on iTunes. Your thoughts will help us shape Sessions' next season.
Enjoy the season finale of Archinect Sessions, "Now and Then":
Shownotes:
Marc Maron's WTF podcast interview with Barack Obama
Trystero Coffee, run out of an Atwater Village garage
6 Comments
on a school trip met Thom once and he blew us away, maybe he had prepared, wouldn't put it past him....
but this interview was painful, I nearly threw my head phones at the computer....is he snorting coke? the fuckin' stutter 100 miles hour stuff...etc...etc....
look i know this feeling after a few red bulls...., Thom is like 1000 miles a head of us, but man he is a star, he should figure out how to talk slower without all the ETC....to us plebes.
no hate to Thom, just would like geniuses like him to keep it simple for us public.
I did the survey, but didn't really see the right place to make a comment about the proposed change in format. I've enjoyed the all-in format, even if it got messy. If there is a panel about news separate from interviews, I'll probably get to the interviews less often. I listen straight through now, but I may just never get to them if there is a panel-only choice. I'd prefer things were kept all together, showcase-style.
Always fun, guys.
Thanks for listening and filling out the survey Steven! Regarding the split into 2 separate podcasts, there are a few reasons we've decided to do this:
Hopefully you'll have time to listen to both podcasts. I don't think the 2 combined will be longer than the recent episodes.
1. I enjoy the current format of your show, I enjoy hearing that other architects are as obsessed about architecture as I am. I enjoy hearing your interests outside of architecture and what makes you guys tick. It's nice to hear smart architects not speaking about theory from time to time. Maybe you could avoid splitting the podcast and more clearly define the segments by playing music in between? If you divide the podcast in two, I'll just listen to them back to back lol.
2. The articles you talk about on the podcast are interesting and I always wonder how I missed them on your home page. Then I realized all your articles look like this...
Zaha excited about.....
Peter Zumthor builds...
Student expenses....
Baskets fly...
In other-words, I can't see the entire title of the article unless I click on it! Please fix this so I can find your amazing articles easier.
Love the podcast!
That's great feedback, thank you Daniel! I've only recently realized that if I hover my cursor over the image of a News post (on the main page) a little pop-up window comes up and shows the whole name of the article.
Example: "Fun Game: Spot the Double Standards in this..."
becomes "Fun Game: Spot the Double Standards in this Zaha-bashing Piece!"
when I hover, which sounds much more interesting!
Did you all ever announce a winner for the "Haiti Now" book?
Also Thom is definitely the more talkative of the two, huh...
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