Beste Attention Audio Journal For Architecture podcaster (2024)

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7E. Bypass Codes 17:43

2y ago17:43

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In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the investigative journalist and veteran beat reporter Caryn Dolley about the use of biometric and building surveillance devices in organized crime networks. With reference to her journalism and research for her book “The Enforcers” (2019), Dolley describes the movement of illicit and counterfeit goods thro…

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7D. Playing the Detective 37:43

2y ago37:43

37:43

In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the artist, puzzle-maker, and escape room designer Laura E. Hall about the design of escape rooms for the public, building community, and the politics of play. Together, they reflect on the popular appeal of detective work in an era of corporate dragnet surveillance.…

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7A. Introduction 5:51

2y ago5:51

5:51

In this episode, Megan Eardley introduces Issue 7 by relating contemporary spatial practices to the literary detective story and present day political realities of surveillance, state violence, and justice work.

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7C. Invisibility As Form 19:37

2y ago19:37

19:37

In this episode, Megan Eardley invites listeners to reflect on the way that detective work operates between form and event. She interviews the artist Janice Kerbel about the use of detective work in pieces such as “Bank Job” (1999), “Doug” (2014), and “Sink” (2018). They discuss how detection can be built into form, Kerbel’s experiments using plans…

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7B. On the Threshold of Detectability 25:50

2y ago25:50

25:50

Like proof, evidence typically refers to things, traces, marks, or signs, that can be studied to establish relevant facts and evaluate competing theories. But while proof has been associated with tests and verification procedures since the thirteenth century, evidence (or the Latin evidentia) refers to something that is “manifest to the senses” and…

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7F. The Sound Of Secrecy 12:54

2y ago12:54

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In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the writer and artist Bryan Finoki. He describes how he came to study the security industry and reflects on his process of harvesting his own field recordings, synthesized sounds, and files scraped off the web, to make Dark Freqs, an original sound composition produced for Attention and this issue on Detect…

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7G. Dark Freqs 18:27

2y ago18:27

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This episode presents Dark Freqs, an original sound piece by Bryan Finoki. Please note that the piece incorporates recordings of police brutality.

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6A. Community Design As A Process 33:43

3y ago33:43

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In Episode 1, Anna Goodman explains how contemporary architects in the United States often pursue community-engaged work through the design of processes. Analysis from the architectural historian Susanne Cowan helps demonstrate how this contrasts with early modern designers’ strong association of community and territory. The episode features excerp…

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6B. Karl Linn and the Idea of Neighborhood Commons 38:32

3y ago38:32

38:32

In Episode 2, Anna Goodman describes a shift in the way architects in the United States viewed community starting in the early 1960s. Using audio clips from participants in an experimental park and playground built under that leadership of the influential community designer Karl Linn, it documents a transition from practices that linked community t…

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6C. Ecological Community At People’s Park 41:28

3y ago41:28

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In Episode 3, Anna Goodman explores how a focus on the process of design over its products located community design at the intersection of anti-institutional activism and other social movements. It focuses on a series of events catalyzed by the construction of Berkeley’s People’s Park, using audio clips of participants provided by the Pacific Radio…

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6D. Carl Anthony, Race and Environmentalism 35:23

3y ago35:23

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In Episode 4, Molly Esteve describes the life and work of the architect and environmental justice advocate Carl Anthony. Using Anthony’s own words and commentary from Jah Sayers, the episode demonstrates how the Black radical tradition pushed designers and planners beyond the neighborhood to a metropolitan approach to community liberation.…

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5A. What is Theory? 23:33

5y ago23:33

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This piece asks the question: “what is theory?” It begins by attempting to define “theory” as a term or as a concept, a task that involves addressing ideas of abstraction, generalization, science, discourse, language and rhetoric, as well as the persistent oppositions between theory and practice, theory and history, theory as engaged and instrument…

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5B. What is Architectural Theory? 32:19

5y ago32:19

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This piece asks the question: “what is architectural theory?” It asks what the phrase “architectural theory” names for us, how architectural theory differs from theory per se, and what are its distinctive features that might remain the same despite changing historical epochs.

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5C. How did Architectural Theory Change over Time? 25:25

5y ago25:25

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This piece addresses the question “how has architectural theory changed over time?” In particular, it explores the longue durée of two millennia of architectural writings in the west. In doing so the piece addresses the historicality of architectural theory in the western tradition. It asks what the big paradigm changes are that architectural theor…

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5D. Is Architectural Theory Western or Global? 24:51

5y ago24:51

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This piece asks “is architectural theory Western or can it be global?” This means asking: is theory universal or is it geographically particular? Is theory inherently linked to Western notions of reason, philosophy, metaphysics, historical thought, and critique? And what is the relationship of theory to other modes of thought such as rhetoric, myth…

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5E. How do you Teach Architectural Theory? 31:09

5y ago31:09

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This piece asks “how do you teach architectural theory?” We ask what are the ways that each person teaches architectural theory in their specific classroom and in their specific school? How do they approach this as a pedagogical challenge? Do they approach architectural theory as something to survey or to explicate (chronologically, thematically, o…

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5F. What are Architectural Theory Classes for? 24:37

5y ago24:37

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This piece asks “what are architectural theory classes for?” What is the purpose of the architectural theory class in relation to architectural design in the curriculum? What is the purpose of the architectural theory class in relation to the formation of the student—their ethical awareness, citizenship, the engendering of their “critical thinking,…

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5G. Is Theory Dead? 33:21

5y ago33:21

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This piece asks “is architectural theory dead?” This might seem a strange question to ask given the lengthy discussion throughout the issue. Yet, at the turn of the millennium, a new generation of architectural theorists declared the “end of theory.” Nearly two decades on, a different generation addresses this question again, and asks why there was…

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4B. The Sound of Absence 27:09

7y ago27:09

27:09

What is music like without the sound of a space? Historian Emily Thompson discusses the aesthetics, technology and politics of spatial absence at the dawn of the recording era while John and Susan Edwards Harvith explain how musicians coped with, adapted to and sometimes thrived in the acoustically dead confines of the recording studio.…

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4C. Even Better than the Real Thing 29:05

7y ago29:05

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In the 1950s, classical record producers were fixated on realism, aspiring to put listeners in the ‘best seat of an acoustically perfect hall.’ Not so for John Culshaw, however, a maverick producer who used new stereophonic technology to produce operas that were more dramatic, more spatially immersive and (so he claimed) more faithful to a composer…

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4D. The Acoustic Orchestrations 23:57

7y ago23:57

23:57

The pianist Glenn Gould was dogmatic about his recording setup, placing the microphone as close as possible to his piano to exclude the sound of the surrounding room. That is, until he encountered the music of Alexander Scriabin—Gould felt that no one acoustic could do justice to Scriabin’s mystical musical language, and devised a system of ‘sound …

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4E. Bach, Sax, Space 24:58

7y ago24:58

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One day, while practicing the prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite #1, Yasuaki Shimizu accidentally ran his tenor saxophone through a reverb machine. The sound so moved him that he embarked on an odyssey to record each of the six Cello Suites in a different acoustical environment. In this piece, Shimizu takes us into a warehouse, a stone quarry, a mine, a…

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4F. Free Field / Pressure Field / Diffuse Field 48:30

7y ago48:30

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Bad acoustics inspired Daniel Neumann to become a composer and sound artist. After struggling to tame echoes, flutter and too much reverberation as a sound engineer at a nightclub in Leipzig, Daniel embraced these and other acoustical peculiarities and made them the focus of his work. In this piece, Neumann talks about how he uses sound to raise aw…

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3A. Postmodernism 36:10

8+ y ago36:10

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This piece addresses the term “Postmodernism” its history, legacy, and use within the discourse of architecture.

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3B. Collecting 36:18

8+ y ago36:18

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This piece addresses the term idea and practice of collecting as a current trope within architectural culture.

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3C. Composition 26:03

8+ y ago26:03

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This piece addresses the concept and practice of composition in architectural design. Formerly dominant in Beaux-Arts education and somewhat taboo in functionalist modern architecture, composition was a key feature of postmodern architectural discourse and has returned to prominence in recent years in the work of many young architects.…

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3D. Kitsch 20:54

8+ y ago20:54

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This piece addresses contemporary attitudes towards the idea of kitsch within the academy and architectural practice.

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3E. Figuration 27:41

8+ y ago27:41

27:41

This piece addresses the concept of figuration in architectural discourse today.

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3F. Critique 24:14

8+ y ago24:14

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This piece addresses the practice of critique as it still operates within architectural design culture today. It taps a new generation of practitioners as to what they see as their relationship to this tradition.

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3G. Delight 17:07

8+ y ago17:07

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This piece addresses the concept of delight in architectural discourse today.

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3H. Discipline 26:01

8+ y ago26:01

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This piece addresses the idea of discipline in architectural discourse today.

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3I. Weirdness 20:09

8+ y ago20:09

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This piece addresses the concept of weirdness in architectural discourse today.

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2A. Allen, Reiser and Meredith – Roundtable on Formalisms 1:09:16

10+ y ago1:09:16

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This round-table conversation between Stan Allen, Jesse Reiser and Michael Meredith addressed the personal experiences of the participants of formalist pedagogy across several decades.

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2B. Kilian and Adriaenssens – Form-Finding 1:02:13

10+ y ago1:02:13

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This interview with Axel Kilian and Sigrid Adriaenssens addressed the idea of form-finding in architectural design.

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2C. Ricciardi and Rose – The Formlessfinder 1:17:51

10+ y ago1:17:51

1:17:51

This interview with Julian Rose and Garrett Ricciardi addressed their project The Formless Finder.

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2D. James Meyer – Minimalism 1:11:45

10+ y ago1:11:45

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This interview with the art historian James Meyer about formalism in minimalist art. The interview discussed his historical work on minimalism, Anne Truit, Modernist painting and sculpture at large.

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2E. Jeff Kipnis – Affect 50:45

10+ y ago50:45

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This interview was with the architectural critic and theorist Jeff Kipnis following the publication of his new book, Jeff Kipnis, A Question of Qualities: Essays in Architecture (MIT Press, 2013). The interview ranged across Kipnis’ theoretical stance but delved in particular into his contributions to theories of affect in architecture.…

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2F. Jorge Otero-Pailos – Phenomenology 54:22

10+ y ago54:22

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This interview with Jorge Otero-Pailos, author of Architecture’s Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern (Minnesota Press, 2010). The conversation touches upon his education in Cornell and his early encounters with late architectural phenomenology in the 1980s and 1990s before turning to his efforts to historicize architectura…

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2G. Michael Graves – Classical Form 1:07:40

10+ y ago1:07:40

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This interview with the late Michael Graves took place at his home in Princeton in 2012. The discussion addressed Graves’s interest in classical form, as well as architectural meaning, and architectural drawing.

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2H. Bryon Roberts and Dora Epstein Jones – New Ancients 1:09:12

10+ y ago1:09:12

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This conversation with Bryony Roberts and Dora Epstein Jones about their recent special edited issue of Log, no.31 “New Ancients.” The conversation included Log editor Cynthia Davidson as well as Urtzi Grau and Cristina Goberna of the practice Fake Industries and Matt Roman.

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1A. Levine, Jennings, & Wood – Roundtable on Walter Benjamin 53:24

12y ago53:24

53:24

This piece is a roundtable discussion on the Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility” examining its relevance today in our ongoing condition of media change in which attention and distraction are at the forefront of current concerns. The discussion was between Mike Jennings, Professor in the German De…

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1B. Harry Francis Mallgrave – Architecture and Perception 46:05

12y ago46:05

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This piece is an interview with Harry Francis Mallgrave, author of The Architect’s Brain : Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture (Wiley, 2009). It addresses the past and present of the relationship between architecture and ideas about perception.

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1C. Mark Johnson – Architecture and Neuroscience 28:31

12y ago28:31

28:31

This piece is an interview with Mark Johnson, author of Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought (Basic Books, 1999). It addresses the implications for new findings in neuroscience for our ideas about embodiment.

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1D. Sylvia Lavin – Architectural Attention 49:54

12y ago49:54

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This piece is an interview with Sylvia Lavin, author of Form Follows Libido Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture (MIT, 2004). It addresses Lavin’s observations and criticisms surrounding the issue of architectural attention today.

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1E. Tim Holmes – Attention Tracking Technology 59:20

12y ago59:20

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This piece is an interview with Tim Holmes, Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. It addresses Holmes research on new developments in attention-tracking technology.

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1F. Stan Allen – Exit Interview 1:22:52

12y ago1:22:52

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This piece is an interview with the outgoing Dean of Princeton University, Stan Allen. It addresses his education and training as an architect, assessment of Princeton University School of Architecture, and its prospects for the future.

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1G. Alejandro Zaera-Polo – Entry Interview 1:00:35

12y ago1:00:35

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This piece is an interview with the incoming Dean of Princeton University in 2012, Alejandro Zaera-Polo. It addresses his assessment of the school at this time and his vision for it going forward.

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1H. Jaffer Kolb – Venice Biennale 2012 36:27

12y ago36:27

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This piece is an interview with Jaffer Kolb by Alek Beirig. It addresses curation of the 2012 Venice Biennale, Common Ground by David Chipperfield.

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1I. Francois Leininger – American Presidential Libraries 41:14

12y ago41:14

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This piece is an interview with the architect Francois Leininger about his research into the history of presidential libraries.

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1K. Daniel Perlin – Deep Listening 23:37

12y ago23:37

23:37

This is an experimental sound piece by Daniel Perlin, a sound artist living and working in New York. It is an exploration of deep listening based upon Pauline Oliversos’s book Software for People: Collected Writings 1963-1980 (Sharon: Smith Publications, 1984)

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