- 218
- Episodes
- 126
- Transcribed
- 48
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 39K
- YouTube views
About A is for Architecture
Explore the world of architecture with the A is for Architecture Podcast hosted by Ambrose Gillick. Through conversations with designers, scholars and practitioners, Ambrose unpacks the creative and theoretical dimensions of architecture. Whether you're a professional, student, or design enthusiast, the A is for Architecture Podcast offers the best insights into how buildings shape society and society shapes buildings. To keep it free and good, subscribe to the podcast on Patreon. The podcast is not affiliated with Ambrose's place of works.
- Publisher
- Ambrose Gillick
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Sept 2021
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
126 of 218 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Cat Rossi and Charles Holland: Design as method and object.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Antony Wood: Tall buildings and sustainable vertical urbanism.
26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Mabel O. Wilson: Spaces of liberation.
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Cat Rossi and Charles Holland: Design as method and object.
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And actually design and aesthetics are, as I understood it then, and I think Amos Rapoport in House Form and Culture talked about this as well, are absolutely central to the process of even engaging with the crisis. So I think that's a really elegant idea because it is a very designed object. Well, you see it also in, particularly in UK RI, so the kind of Research Council funding for design currently, that the emphasis is all about what design can do as a facilitator about design thinking, which isn't a phrase I'm a big fan of. But then if you look at some of the projects, the really valuable projects that are being funded currently, actually there's a real care and attention taken to design as a an act of creating engaging, desirable, well-made things within all of those projects, whether it's the communication material, whether it's other kind of artefacts, whether it's the tools that facilitate conversations. […]
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- Cat Rossi
- Charles Holland
- Antony Wood
- Mabel O Wilson
- JL Williams
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- YouTube views
- 39,202
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 10 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 38 ratings
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 51
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