Steven Holl discusses his firm’s recently completed project at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., and reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic will influence the design of future educational, institutional, and arts spaces.

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Explore Steven Holl Architects’ New Winter Visual Arts Center

Karrie Jacobs interviews the writers about their forthcoming book on the history of quarantine facilities, which they were finishing in March while on lockdown in Los Angeles at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley on the Architecture of Quarantine

Listen to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill partners Carrie Byles, Laura Ettelman, and Xuan Fu describe their paths to the top of the global firm and their goals during their appointments.

Meet SOM's First All-Female Executive Committee

Listen to the founder of the Hip Hop Architecture Camp trace the influence of the cultural movement from Le Corbusier to his personal, ongoing projects.

Michael Ford on the Intersection of Hip Hop, Activism, and Architecture

Listen to the co-founder of 4RM+ULA, in St. Paul, Minn., detail the impact of systemic racism of black architects, call out the willfully ignorant, and explain the underpinnings of "Minnesota Nice."

James Garrett Jr. Hopes George Floyd Is the Final Wake-Up Call Architects Need

Listen to the father–son duo and respective past and current CEOs of Moody Nolan reflect on their road to success in a profession with disproportionately few people of color.

Curtis and Jonathan Moody on Being Leaders, African Americans, and Family Members in Architecture

In this podcast episode, founder Tei Carpenter discusses her shifting approach to residential and public infrastructure design.

How a Public Health Crisis Forced Agency—Agency to Rethink Engagement and Design

Jeanne Gang discusses her firm's recently completed project in Brooklyn, N.Y., and examines how creating supportive space for first responders can serve the community as a whole.

Studio Gang's FDNY Rescue Company 2 Rethinks the Modern Firehouse

In this episode of our podcast, the founders of this Brooklyn, N.Y.–based firm share how they are navigating the COVID-19 crisis and what work is keeping them motivated.

Only If On Managing a Small Firm During a Pandemic

In this podcast episode, founding principal and executive director Michael Murphy discusses his firm's Covid-19 response, as well as how architects can use design to help fight the pandemic.

MASS Design Group Is Using Design to Fight Infection

Principal Keith Hempel describes how his firm became the largest to satisfy the most recent energy reduction goal of the AIA 2030 Commitment.

LPA on How to Achieve the 2030 Challenge Targets Toward Carbon Neutrality

In this podcast episode, the Chicago-based principals Paola Aguirre Serrano and Dennis Milam discuss the firm's projects that aim to unify.

Borderless Studio Is All About Building Community

In this podcast, AS+GG partner Gordon Gill, FAIA, and sustainability director Christopher Drew explain the origins and methodology of their firm's newest study, Residensity: A Carbon Analysis of Residential Typologies, and discuss the questions that arose during their research—questions that often outnumbered the conclusions.

How Sustainable is Your Housing Type?

This podcast looks at the impact of WeWork and other vertically integrated companies on the design profession at large by asking three people who were key to WeWork's rapid ascension: David Fano, Federico Negro, and Steve Sanderson. The trio were the founders of Case Inc., a New York–based design consultancy established in 2008 to bridge physical architecture with digital technology.

WeWork's Lasting Impact on Architecture, from the Former Founders of Case

In this podcast episode, Nash Hurley, principal of San Francisco–based architecture studio Vital, references colonial villages, Burning Man, and hovercrafts in discussing the past and future of cities, work, transit, and community, and offers a first glimpse at the firm's Joint Structures research.

Joint Structures: A New Typology for a Networked Society

The Architect Podcast Network is a production of ARCHITECT, the journal of the American Institute of Architects. Here, we talk with the innovators working at the cutting edge of design, technology, and practice in architecture.

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