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Interview with Kate RaworthSubscription
The author of Doughnut Economics ruminates on the urgent question of how we might meet the needs of all people, within the means of the planet
Interview with Elizabeth GroszSubscription
The AR talks to the philosopher, theorist, and author of Architecture from the Outside about boundaries, representation, and the thickness of the ‘in-between’
Hélène Binet: ‘I am interested in making you dream about the place’VideoSubscription
Winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2019, photographer Hélène Binet talks dreams, Zaha Hadid and photography you can hold in your hands following the Women in Architecture awards in March
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Sheila O'Donnell: ‘Of course I think of London as part of the EU’VideoSubscription
Sheila O’Donnell, founding director of O’Donnell + Tuomey alongside John Tuomey, talks Brexit, Irish architecture, and ‘damn fine women painters’, after winning Architect of the Year at the Women in Architecture awards 2019
Xu Tiantian: ‘The buildings are not iconic – they're more quiet’VideoSubscription
Xu Tiantian, founder of DnA (Design and Architecture), talks about acupuncture, ancient Chinese building techniques and rejecting icons after winning the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture at the Women in Architecture awards 2019
Elizabeth Diller: ‘Trump is producing an activist generation’VideoSubscription
Winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2019, Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, talks Trump, High Lines and the state of American architecture when we catch her at the Women in Architecture awards in March 2019
Interview with Irma BoomSubscription
The AR talks to the Dutch graphic designer and specialist bookmaker about the relationship between books, buildings and architecture, about the value of print in a digital world – and reading in bed.
Interview with Lars MüllerSubscription
The AR talks to this heavyweight publisher of books on art, architecture and design – about self-publishing, saying no, and commitment to the book
‘Architecture is sick but not totally dead’: Jean Nouvel on disasters, criticism and the future of architectureSubscription
As his most recent tower, La Marseillaise, is inaugurated on Marseille’s seafront, Nouvel talks about the death of architectural criticism, taking pleasure in problems and why the future of architecture is not architectural
Madelon Vriesendorp: ‘There's a “coming out of hiding”’VideoSubscription
Winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2018, Madelon Vriesendorp talks Lina Bo Bardi, bitches and cosmic jackets following the Women in Architecture awards in March
Gloria Cabral: ‘You need to make doors open – big doors’VideoSubscription
Gloria Cabral from Gabinete de Arquitectura talks about inequality in Paraguay, Peter Zumthor, and how to change the world, after winning the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture at the Women in Architecture awards 2018
Interview with Rachel Whiteread: ‘A memorial needs to be visible but not screaming’VideoSubscription
2017 Ada Louise Huxtable prize winner Rachel Whiteread talks to us about her ‘shy sculptures’, working in series, how Gordon Matta-Clark influenced her student days and why she finds it difficult to collaborate with architects.
Denise Scott Brown: The petition is my prize – and it's better than the PritzkerVideoSubscription
Jane Drew Prize 2017 winner Denise Scott Brown on sexism, prizes, low architectural pay and the fight for self-esteem
‘By creating public space you are able to create chances for social change’: Ada Yvars Bravo VideoSubscription
The Moira Gemmill Prize shortlist: interview with Ada Yvars Bravo
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