SYSTEMIC ISSUES ARE STRUCTURAL, HERE’S YOUR SLEDGEHAMMER
A podcast for designers, interdependent dreamers, systems thinkers, and architecturally curious humans who want to identify the invisible structures in their daily lives.
What would you need to hear to be convinced that architecture is more than the buildings we see around us? What would it take for us as humans to confront and redesign the structure of our very own conditioning, assumptions, and narratives as a means to creating and voicing systemic change. In this podcast we will see that our work is not only in the details of drawing, but in the details of our everyday life and the potential of a great conversation.
Welcome to Internal Architecture. Class is in session, but instead of walking into a stale room with rows of desks, it’s a virtual lounge filled with inspiring and radical conversations all in the comfort of your own space. Whether it’s your office, home, or car, get ready to learn, listen, and question “How the f*ck is this related to architecture?”
Warm squeezes and happy listening,
Professionally of course ;)
- Cassie
MEET YOUR HOST
Cassandra Brown holds her master’s in architecture alongside a decade of study and play in somatic practices. She brings body literacy to the field of design through Internal Architecture, a framework exploring the body as a tool for systemic redesign.
Take a hike to Grotto Falls with Dãmasa Germaine Perry as she shares her life's work as an animist. Through powerful storytelling, we traverse her recent rights of passage initiations in Gabon, Africa. Diving into the world of energetics, ancestors, and right relationship to the world around us, which includes being in devotion and in ritual with our everyday life. As she likes to say - Enter with respect. This episode is a long form recording of our hike—almost two hours that honors storytel...
10 Dec 2025
THE GIFT OF GAB WITH TESSA AND MACKENZIE | PART 2
In part two of our conversation, Mackenzie Coulthard and Tessa Coughenour dive into their graduate thesis projects—exploring water scarcity and wind turbine sustainability. Mackenzie shares her research on water scarcity as a spectrum, architectural frameworks for both arid (Las Vegas) and coastal (Miami) environments. Tessa challenges our assumptions about renewable energy, revealing the hidden environmental costs of wind turbines based on her upbringing in Wyoming. From manufacturing ...
3 Dec 2025
THE GIFT OF GAB WITH TESSA AND MACKENZIE | PART 1
In this two part conversation Mackenzie Coulthard and Tessa Coughenour share what it's like entering the field after completing their Master's degrees. We discuss the tensions between creating warm, eclectic homes and economic forces, the parallels between Hood Feminism and sustainability movements (who gets centered vs. who gets left out), and the professional narratives we've inherited - like "it depends on the client" - that keep us feeling powerless. This episode is an invitation to liste...
18 Sept 2025
FROM GOD COMPLEX TO GROUNDED | INTERDEPENDENCE & TREES
This episode starts off with a guided spatial exercise, followed by some quick and dirty architectural theory, followed by a case made for interdependence. Internal architecture bridges the internal and the external, exploring work that is both intimate and professional, abstract and practical. This episode is just the beginning to future conversations we will have on this topic in the future! Resources | Books "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Conditi...
6 Aug 2025
DEMOLISHING PERFECTIONISM & A CONVERSATION WITH DANAE FILPULA ANKNEY
For today's episode we have our very first guest Danae Filpula Ankney speaking about her experience in grad school, job search, and her current position in architecture. She shares grounded insight and reflection that will help listeners to step into a confident mindset and take ownership for their education and career. This isn't a story shared without the struggle and humanity of the process. This interview is followed by a Building Wisdom segment where we demolish perfectionism and underst...
15 Jun 2025
INTRO TO INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE
In this very first episode, Cassandra Brown explores and introduces Internal Architecture. Emphasizing the importance of self-discovery, education outside of convention, our voice as designers, and the power of everyday conversations. She sets the foundation for what it means to bring our full selves to practice and education in the field - to challenge existing narratives and use systems thinking to create active change in our daily lives.
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