ArchitectureTalk

03/06/2024

Very excited to announce that my introductory piece on how the Aditya Prakash archive made it to the CCA, Centre Canadien d'Architecture / Canadian Centre for Architecture, is now published! Check it out!!!

This week, we share some reflections from Vikramāditya Prakāsh as he introduces us to the archive of his father, Āditya Prakāsh, which he donated to the CCA and is the object of the latest iteration of our Find and Tell program. Vikramāditya Prakash recounts the lengthy process of organizing hi...

30/04/2024

And here is take 2 of the "X-static" dance with Karin.

This is "Take 2_X-Static Dance in O(U)R Experience exhibit" by Vikramaditya Prakash on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

07/03/2024

Seattle people!
O(U)R Office of (un)certainty Research, my design research practice with Mark Jarzombek, has an exhibition coming up.

Opening reception on April 3. Please RSVP and come, AND bring your friends!!!

15/02/2024

Help me make this VIRAL!

My TED Ed video on Chandigarh already has 275k views in just 6 days! That’s great even by TED standards. Check it out and please share widely!

Explore the construction of the futurist city Chandigarh, a project of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and planned by Le Corbusier.--In 1947, India achieved ...

08/02/2024

TED-ed just released their video on Chandigarh that was conceptualized and authored by me. Released TODAY it has already received 42k views! Check it out!

Explore the construction of the futurist city Chandigarh, a project of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and planned by Le Corbusier.--In 1947, India achieved ...

03/01/2024

Great review of One Continuous Line, my book on the life and work of Aditya Prakash, by Manu Sobti, published in TDSR. T
Thank you Manu!!

24/03/2022

123. A Fieldguide to Sub-Saharan African Architecture with Adil Dilbai and Livingstone Mukasa. How does the idea of a “Nation” come through in architectural language? Is there such a thing as a Nigerian architecture, for example? Are there national identifications visible in architectural makeup? On the other hand, how does architecture transcend borders? What is the status of Modernism in architecture in these various places? This week, we dive into these larger questions as we dissect the recently published series Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai. Link in bio for full episode



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10/03/2022

“...there are things that come out of very awkward and difficult circumstances and may be produced by capitalistic and authoritarian processes that you might not like, but what if, once these objects are out in the world, they are used and appropriated and inhabited in different ways…I want the licence to talk about that stuff…it’s an approach of openmindedness.”

Richard Williams

This week we sit down with Prof. Richard Williams of the Edinburgh College of Art to discuss his recently published book Reyner Banham Revisited

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17/02/2022

Once again, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curtis for Part two of this conversation. We pick up right where we left off, rumbling through the dusty roads of India with William on his way to meet Balkrishna Doshi, the living link between the force that is Corbusian Modernism in India and deep, deep Indian tradition.

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03/02/2022

This week, we travel back in time with architectural historian and theorist William J.R. Curtis and his reading of the narrative of Indian Modernism. Part one of a two part series, Curtis and Prakash focus today’s conversation on the life and work of Aditya Prakash, the nature and production of Modernism in India, and Curtis’ own engagement with Indian Modernism.

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14/01/2022

The modernist legacy has helped proliferate the current environmental crisis on a global scale. In architecture, what is to be done to address this civilizational problem? Could oracular visions be a way to rethink how we practice and teach architecture? Join us for this week's conversation with Mark Jarzombek, professor at MIT and co-director of the Office of [Un]certainty Research.

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