Failed Architecture

About Failed Architecture

Failed Architecture is a podcast on architecture and the real world. By opening up new perspectives on the built environment, we seek to explore the meaning of architecture in contemporary society. FA challenges dominant spatial fashions and explores alternative realities, reaching far beyond the architectural community. We combine personal stories with research and reflection, always remaining committed to the idea that architecture is about social justice and climate justice, pop culture and subculture, representation and imagination, and everything that happens after the building’s been built.

Publisher

Failed Architecture

Category

arts · science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 May 2018

Latest episode

19 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

60 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Jan 2026

   Refugee Containment in Greece's Closed Controlled Access Centres

   [You can find a transcript of this conversation in the article version posted on our website] This episode focuses on Greece’s so-called new generation refugee camps, officially known as Closed Controlled Access Centres or CCACs. These are high-tech compounds located on islands such as Samos and Lesvos used to process, detain, and surveil people on the move. You’ll hear from voices across spatial practice, activism, and journalism to unpack how these sites operate as extra legal spaces, contributing to a wider ongoing project of the intense management of migration. This podcast was written by System of Systems, co-founded by Maria […]

2. 

   27 Nov 2025

   Borders of Possibility w/ Gabriella Sánchez

   [You can find a transcript of this conversation in the article version posted on our website] This episode is an unpacking of migration and border management with a focus on the US-Mexico border and European externalisation practices. Written and narrated by journalist, jurist and urbanism specialist Nuria Ribas Costa, it features an in-depth interview with Gabriella Sánchez, a socio-cultural anthropologist and global expert on border control. In this conversation, she explains how borders are fictional constructs that require vast amounts of energy and resources to be manufactured into dangerous spaces; but also how borderlands, and border imaginaries, are not just […]

3. 

   14 May 2025

   Amsterdam's New Wave of Cooperative Housing w/ Andrea Verdecchia from Time to Access

   Andrea Verdecchia from Time to Access discusses Amsterdam's housing crisis and the new wave of cooperative housing initiatives, offering insights into alternative housing models in the city in an interview with Failed Architecture.

Who has been a guest on Failed Architecture

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Andrea Verdecchia
• Adare Brown
• Elisa Iturbe
• Geneva Strauss-Wise
• Josh Barnett

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

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

Quality

15

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51