Send us a text Some people have a rare brilliance - one that isn’t just about intelligence but about the ability to deconstruct, analyze, and truly understand every step of their journey. K. Vaitheeswaran sir is one of those few. When I met him, I was struck by how he dissects every part of his work-what went right, what went wrong, and why. It’s a…

Today, we are joined by Ijlal Muzzafar who is a professor at RISD and author of Modernism’s Magic Hat: Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital. The book is M’s thesis on how modernists in the post-war era invoked and worked with the concept of development to produce a re-imaging of development as a process of self-actualization…

Send us a text Kruthika Kumaran, like I keep telling her, is one of the most wholesome individuals - an inspiration in so many ways. She brings home to work through her unique sense, style, and sensitivity to management. Her ability to create things within her reach while meeting the needs of her customers is truly remarkable. In her own words, she…

Today, we are joined by Jeffrey Fracé who is the chair of acting at the University of Washington. Fracé discusses his background of the arts through Shakespeare, improvisational theater, the different modalities of theater, and the difference between producing theater and producing architecture.

Send us a text Dr. Kiren Antony Kabeer is a real-life inspiration. In a world driven by competition and stress, he consciously chooses a path that prioritizes well-being, self-respect, and clarity. It’s not easy to lead a simple life anymore, but there’s so much wisdom in it, and he embodies that beautifully. Watch our conversation - this one is pa…

“Architecture and culture operate in a porous manner through the construction of ideas…Trotsky reading Henry George, who had an impact on Frank Lloyd Wright in the U.S. which then bounced back into Russia in the 1930s… so I’m interested in the worldwide circulation of ideas, and their patterns and themes of discourse. ” Jean Louis Cohen We are brin…

Send us a text Have you ever watched 3 Idiots? Remember that extraordinary school Aamir Khan starts? Now imagine it exists in real life - right here in Coimbatore. That’s The Yellow Train School. In this episode of Brewing Reflections, I had the privilege to sit down with Ms. Santhya Vikram, the visionary founder behind this revolutionary instituti…

Send us a text Modesty, simplicity, and humility are timeless qualities that shine even brighter when paired with great achievements. Swarnamugi is a beautiful example of this, fearlessly reflecting these virtues as she shoulders immense responsibilities with so much ease. A titan in the business world it was a true honour to have had this conversa…

At age 90, Balkrishna Vithaldas (B.V.) Doshi's journey in architecture has spanned 70 years, starting from Indian independence in 1947, to the vicissitudes of postmodernism and globalization. Doshi's voice is a touchstone in global and Indian modernism. Conversation topics include his reflection on life and creativity, his 'favorite' projects, the …

As we kick off our new season on ArchitectureTalk, we are bringing back our conversation with Anthony Vidler: Modernism, Utopia, and Living the Catastrophe. Anthony Vidler (1941-October 19, 2023) was an architectural historian, role model, and friend who will be missed dearly.

Send us a text A rare combination of grit beyond comfort and determination beyond fear, Pooja Srinivasa Raja is the powerhouse of a woman I got to speak to. Let’s listen, learn and be inspired. Thank you ! I hope today’s episode brought you closer to seeing yourself and the world around you with a little more clarity, love, and empathy. If somethin…

Send us a text My first podcast interview with Rayane R Mithun. She is a star kid but trust me when I say this, she is a fire brand of her own. Know for her wits Rayane shares her side of the story that was never told. Watch her pour her heart out while inspiring everyone around her to be authentically and unapologetically themselves. Thank you ! I…

Send us a text Our time of birth, our upbringing, families, environments, education, relationships, milestones and life events have all been different. Well, even if we have had some of our paths crossed we all have different perspectives, we look at things differently and so experience things differently. So why are we comparing? Let’s live our li…

Send us a text I recently read a book in which there was this one sentence “How others treat you cannot determine your worth”. True but isn’t that what keeps our days moving? The thought of what others think of us? There are days we base our understanding of ourselves from the eyes of others. We as a society are built that way, never say no, think …

Today we are joined by Gregg Colburn who co-wrote “Homelessness is a Housing Problem”. Colburn also shares with us his findings about causes of homelessness, his views on the situation, and some solutions that could remove the problem.

Today we are joined by SB Divya who wrote the science fiction novel Meru and helps us think about potential futures on Earth. Meru as we discuss in this episode is a future in which tech is developed based on imaginations of current technology and science and possibilities unknown but conceivable.

Today we are joined by Martien de Vletter who is the associate director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and gathers archival material dedicated to rethinking, remembering, and preserving architectural thoughts and memories. Vletter also talks about decolonizing the archive and transforming it into something more diverse, inclusive, an…

Today we are joined by Sumangala Damodaran who teaches in the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington, trained economist, dedicated her life to documenting and being a part of leftist oppositional protest movements. Today, Damodaran discusses her protest songs, her songs of sorrow, her singing, the research she has done …

Send us a text It is easy to dwell on the past or worry about the future. However, the truth is that where we are right now is the best place for us to be. This perfect intersection between space and time offers endless opportunities for growth. Instead of dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we should focus on the present. Whether it…

Send us a text Imagine for a second that you are in a room and suddenly the lights go off. You are blind to everything surrounded by darkness. Instinctively we blink our eyes and remember the position of the things that were around us. Our mind opens up and we see what we know. Actually we believe in what we know at that very moment. Without a doub…

Send us a text I was recently talking to a good friend of mine who was sharing something personal with me and I was so engrossed in what she was saying When she completed the story and looked at me I just shook my head, and said everything will be fine. No opinion or advice and I left the conversation at that. A little later I found myself wonderin…

Today we are joined by Afroditi Psarra and Audrey Desjardins who talk about building alternative technologies that respond to and critique the world of data, and their project “Soft Data and Common Wares”.

Send us a text In my view, it's crucial to keep practicing constant deliberation—a habit that brings out virtues like honesty and fairness in thought, essential for personal growth. While our egos shape us, setting boundaries through thoughtful considerations helps avoid its pitfalls that might lead to inhumanity or insolence. Passing through these…

Send us a text Recently I read Ekalaivan's Mahabharata story which deepened my thoughts on the delicate balance between control and surrender in life. Navigating the balance between asserting control over our lives and allowing nature to unfold is definitely a constant struggle. Understanding the reasons behind our experiences, big or small, can be…

Send us a text Each of us has a unique life that is to be appreciated without comparison. We experience influences, but it is up to us to filter out the unnecessary. Being true to ourselves, empowering our inner voice, and embracing positivity shapes our lives and slowly helps shed materialistic fallacies. And we each have a unique timeline even fo…

Today we are joined by Eliyahu Keller who shares with us the relationship between war, war technology, architectural thinking, the climate crisis, the post-COVID era, and the crisis of imagination.

Send us a text In our human journey, we move from simply giving and incorporating love into our lives to a point where we not only give love but also become an embodiment of love. It's a transition where expressing love becomes an innate part of who we are, woven into the fabric of our being and reflected in our actions and interactions with others…

To kick off the new year, today we are joined by Neelkanth Chhaya who is a professor in India. Chhaya discusses forms and contingence of south Asian aesthetic theory, he is an open-minded and inquisitor thinker, and examines the ideas and interests and cross-references them.

Send us a text "நான் அசைந்தால் ஆசையும் அகிலமெல்லாமே அறிவாய் மனிதா உன் ஆணவம் பெரிதா" A beautiful verse of a song from the movie Thiruvilayadal. While the song itself has a powerful back story my adaptation comes from the point of view of self-growth. Today I will talk about how I want to connect it to my heart, mind, and body. Through to Stillness. …

Send us a text A few years ago, I met @malini at an event hosted by my friend. Later that night, a few of us went for dinner, and Malini joined us a few minutes later. When asked about their fitness, Malini simply said, “I don’t do much, 'வயிறு போதும்னு சொல்லும் போது நான் நிறுத்திடுவேன்’”, following Nammalvar’s words. Roughly translated, it means w…

Send us a text I believe that children are not an excuse they are a reason, worth everything you have. They give you a reason to live and the strength to tide over your toughest days. Hell yeah they can give you some tough days themselves. But, take for instance, when Covid hit home my boys and I fell sick all at the same time, and like a pack of c…

Send us a text One of the many things I like to do like many of you guys is to have a quiet morning with my cup of coffee. Left to my thoughts, organise myself and plan my day ahead and to stay on top of my game. Well, truth be told I feel like this time of the day is purely for myself “The Precious Me Time”. Our days seem to be getting more and mo…

This week, we are joined by Jan Schmidt-Garre, who directed the film The Promise. Architect B.V. Doshi which was shown at the ADFF (Architecture Design Film Festival). This film took place in the last few years of his life and highlighted his philosophies and outlook on architecture and design.

Today we are joined with Ayad Rahmani who teaches architecture at Washington State University. Rahmani's love for literature and architecture leads us to today's conversation about Moby Dick and architecture.

As we kick off our new season on ArchitectureTalk, we are bringing back our conversation with Anthony Vidler: Modernism, Utopia, and Living Catastrophe. Anthony Vidler (1941-October 19, 2023) was an architectural historian, role model, and friend who will be missed dearly.

This week we are joined by Mindy Seu who published The Cyberfeminism Index electronically and physically. What we focus on is how the index is gathered, organized, and shared and how it could be applicable in the built environment.

This week we are joined by Phillip Thurtle, who is the director of the Comparitive History of Ideas (CHID) program at the University of Washington Seattle. Thurtle talks to us about the gothic, what it is and what it means to him and what he researches.

This week, we are joined by the founder and CEO of Phantom Hands Deepak Srinath. Phantom Hands creates chairs and other various furniture pieces, and also brings attention to Indian craft worldwide.

This week, we are joined again with Mariam Issoufou Kamara and AbdouMaliq Simone, where we talk about the “Faada” and “Adda” as hangout spaces, and go in depth of what future Faada and Adda spaces would look like with urban inhabitation.

This week, we are joined again with Benedikt Hartl. Hartl and his girlfriend recently biked from Seattle to La Jolla, and shares his experience as a European traveling through the West Coast as well as the architectural impacts he observed.

This week, we are joined by James Graham who is currently an assistant professor at CCA, and used to be faculty at Columbia University and handled publications there. His work heavily revolves around the planetary and climate crisis.

This week, we are joined by Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller, who are both principals at AGENCY. Kripa and Mueller recently published their book Fronts: Military Urbanism and the Developing World, which starts our conversation and dives into immigration, migration, and questions the climate change emergency.…

This week, we are joined by Clara Kraft Isono, who directed the architecture film Bawa's Garden. Isono is an architect, film maker, and educator in the UK and is currently focused on film making. In this discussion, Isono talks about what film making is, as well as what an architecture film is and what it should be.…

This week, we are joined by Professor Jeremy Till, who talks about his work with the research collective MOULD and their project Architecture after Architecture which interrogates the constitutive entanglement between architecture and modernism. With modernism responsible for the climate emergency, we will have to re-think what architecture is in f…

This week we are once again joined by Mariam Issoufou Kamara for the Faada-Adda Conversations Part II: Future Hériter. In this conversation, Kamara talks about breaking free from the boundaries of the cardinal directions and getting into new ways of being.

This week we are joined by Kyle Bergman, who is the CEO of the Architecture and Design Film Festival. Bergman shares with us his thoughts about the connections between film, architecture, and design, and more.

This week we are joined by Junichi Satoh, who is current faculty in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. Junichi shares with us how he has incorporated architectural thinking in diverse and constructive ways throughout his life, and how it has gotten him to where he is today.…

This week, we are joined again by Mark Jarzombek to discuss the data society on contemporary architecture, as well as his book Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age.