ArchitectureTalk

About ArchitectureTalk

Designed around an engaging conversation, Architecture Talk explores issues in contemporary architecture and architectural thinking. It is hosted by Vikram Prakash, Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Publisher

Vikram Prakash

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 May 2017

Latest episode

15 May 2025

Latest episodes

163 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 May 2025

   161. Pierre Jeanneret and the Chandigarh Vernacular with Manu Sobti

   Today, we are joined by Manu Sobti who is a senior lecturer at the University of Brisbane in Australia. We talk to Sobti today about his research on Pierre Jeanneret and Aditya Prakash, what he found, and the role of these two people in the making of modern India and modern architecture

2. 

   17 Apr 2025

   160. Modernism’s Magic Hat with Ijlal Muzzafar

   Today, we are joined by Ijlal Muzzafar who is a professor at RISD (https://www.risd.edu/) and author of Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital (https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329665/). The book is M’s thesis on how modernists in the post-war era invoked and worked with the concept of development to produce a re-imaging of development as a process of self-actualization without real sizeable investment of capital.

3. 

   21 Mar 2025

   159. Devising Theater with Jeffrey Fracé

   Today, we are joined by Jeffrey Fracé who is the chair of acting at the University of Washington. Fracé discusses his background of the arts through Shakespeare, improvisational theater, the different modalities of theater, and the difference between producing theater and producing architecture.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

13,450

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

30 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

37 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

87

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

92

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