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Superurbanism

Superurbanism is a series of conversations with the most interesting people working in the field of architecture today: architects, curators, authors, designers. Host Tim Abrahams explores both the details of their work and their bigger vision.

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32:21

News Review — February 2025

Superurbanism ·

2025/02/26

Welcome to the Superurbanism News Review: a compendium and critique of the big stories that are dominating architecture and the associated professions this quarter. Giving her insight this episode is Vicky Richardson, the former editor of Blueprint and Head of Architecture and Drue Heinz Curator at the Royal Academy. We talk Aga Khan, wiggly roads and soft power.

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31:24

S2 EP10 — Nicolas Fayad

Superurbanism ·

2025/02/14

Nicolas Fayad founded East architecture studio with Charles Kettaneh in 2015. Based in Lebanon and now the United Arab Emirates, the practice won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for their refurbishment of an Oscar Niemeyer pavilion in Tripoli in 2022. Tim spoke to them in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, at the opening of their temporary prayer space at the Islamic Arts Biennale.

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35:25

S2 EP09 — Stefano Boeri

Superurbanism ·

2025/01/30

Tim talks to the architect and don of the Milan design world Stefano Boeri who is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Bosco Verticale; a pioneering high-rise planted with 17,000 trees, shrubs and plants, completed in his home city. Boeri also outlines his plans for the 2025 Milan Triennale of which he is president.

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38:22

S2 EP08 — Sir Peter Cook

Superurbanism ·

2025/01/16

Sir Peter Cook is a Royal Academician and RIBA Gold Medal holder. And yet his fame rests on his work with avant garde architecture collective Archigram and he continues to champion formally extravagant architecture that lives today on the margins. Tim talks to him about putting ideas out there and his beef with Kenneth Frampton.

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56:03

S2 EP07 — Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton

Superurbanism ·

2024/12/12

Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton have built some of the most striking modern buildings in Europe. On the occasion of an exhibition of their work at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin alongside work from an astonishing archive featuring work by Scharoun, the Taut Brothers and many others, Tim spoke to them about their work and the history that forms it.

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42:13

S2 EP06 — James Capper

Superurbanism ·

2024/11/28

Tim talks to James Capper, an artist and speculative engineer who makes boats that walk and robots that paint: machines that ask us what machines are really for. His latest work Monitor is an itinerant, walking workshop for Ukraine which emerged from a residency in Kiev and is currently on exhibit, in the form of prototypes and drawings, at the Royal Academy in London.

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45:16

S2 EP05 — Hanif Kara

Superurbanism ·

2024/11/14

How do you design a roller coaster? What was it like on the North Sea oil rigs in the 1980s? What did you learn in the steel yards? Hanif Kara, recipient of this year’s Soane Medal led the engineering on the Peckham Library by Will Alsop, the Phaeno Science Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects amongst many others, Tim though is interested in where Hanif came from as much as where he got to.

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39:10

S2 EP04 — Selina Anttinen

Superurbanism ·

2024/11/01

Tim talks to Selina Anttinen, founding partner of Anttinen Oiva Architects with her husband Vesa Oiva. So successful have the practice been in their native Helsinki, from designing the main library of the University of Helsinki in 2008 to leading the reimagining of the city’s central harbour with the Katoleina Pier project, finished this year, you may not have heard of them. Until now.

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40:39

S2 EP03 — Kenneth Frampton

Superurbanism ·

2024/10/21

Few architecture critics have had the impact of Kenneth Frampton. His Modern Architecture: a Critical History is a masterpiece; his essay on Critical Regionalism, one of the most influential pieces of writing on architecture of the twentieth century. He talks to Tim about his latest collection of essays Architecture and the Public World, published by Bloomsbury.

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41:42

S2 EP02 — Paul Robbrecht

Superurbanism ·

2024/10/04

Paul Robbrecht founded Robbrecht en Daem with his wife Hilde Daem in 1975. Their son Johannes joined in 2002. This family-led practice is one of the most important in Europe, helping transform Belgium into one of the richest architectural cultures in the world. He talks to Tim about his father, his favourite sculptor and Egypt.

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29:09

S2 EP01 — Kengo Kuma

Superurbanism ·

2024/09/11

Kengo Kuma is a mercurial architect, who works with natural forms and historical structures with an avant-garde sensibility. Tim talks to the usually taciturn Japanese maestro about the horrors of Metabolism, what he calls the philosophy of the detail and the affinities between Portugal and Japan.

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47:09

S1 EP19 — Edwin Heathcote

Superurbanism ·

2024/06/27

To celebrate the London Festival of Architecture’s 20th anniversary Tim met Edwin Heathcote, the Financial Times architecture critic, in a small podcast booth built underneath the Lloyd’s building in London. Designed by Urban Radicals, the booth was the perfect place to talk about public space in London and Eddy’s book, On the Street: In-Between Architecture published by HENI.

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46:23

S1 EP18 — Job Floris

Superurbanism ·

2024/06/06

Job Floris was an editor of the pioneering, always interesting OASE Journal for Architecture from 2008 until 2018. He is also an architect: one half of the Rotterdam-based practice Monadnock which he founded in the naughties with Sandor Naus. For reasons that Tim explores with Job, Monadnock’s work sits uneasily in their home city although it is popular elsewhere in the Netherlands and in Germany.

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34:28

S1 EP17 — Bijoy Jain

Superurbanism ·

2024/05/16

Bijoy Jain lives in Mumbai; the city of his birth. Tim talked to him about his world famous practice Studio Mumbai which sits between the world of art, craft and architecture and is staffed by skilled craftsmen, technicians and draughtsmen, who design and build each project themselves. He reflects on architecture as dance and his time living and working in London.

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38:53

S1 EP16 — Simon Henley

Superurbanism ·

2024/05/02

Simon Henley is one of London architecture’s unsung heroes. His practice Henley Halebrown wrings great buildings from unlikely sites across the city, Hackney New Primary School being a great example but also their latest work Thames Christian School. But Simon is also a great advocate for the culture of architecture as a writer but in a host of other ways. Tim talked to him about buildings, history and London.

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40:41

S1 EP15 — Farshid Moussavi

Superurbanism ·

2024/04/18

Farshid Moussavi RA OBE is an architect and – pay attention to the exact phrasing – Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard GSD. Born in Iran but raised in Britain, she has a terrific range of work, all imbued with a public spirit. Tim talks to her about one of her smallest projects ever as well as the purpose of her work in France and the USA.

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33:21

S1 EP14 — Judit Carrera

Superurbanism ·

2024/04/04

Judit Carrera is a political scientist by education but is now director of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). As part of her remit, she is also in charge of the CCCB’s Education programme, head of the CCCB Archive, and director of the European Prize for Urban Public Space which awards the most thoughtful new communal spaces across the continent.

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28:51

S1 EP13 — William Mann (part 2)

Superurbanism ·

2024/03/07

This is the second half of a conversationbetween host Tim Abrahams and William Mann the first half of which was broadcast earlier in this series. This week the practice William is a partner of Witherford Watson Mann will complete their extension to Clare College in Cambridge. This is a discussion about that building but much more. Moliere, Freud and Imannuel Kant.

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36:52

S1 EP12 — Rowan Moore

Superurbanism ·

2024/02/22

Rowan Moore is one of the UKs most eloquent and respected architecture critics. His third book Property: The Myth That Built The World raises key issues about how we provide housing which has profound relevance for our current predicament. Do we have an unhealthy obsession with ownership? Tim explores the issue with him.

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37:58

S1 EP11 — Ken Shuttleworth

Superurbanism ·

2024/02/08

This week Tim Abrahams meets Ken Shuttleworth. Known as Ken the Pen in his university days, he is a leading architect with an exemplary talent for drawing. He takes us through a life in drawing, explaining how his relationship with the art has evolved and how, now he has founded the Architecture Drawing Prize, the media has changed in an industry undergoing huge technological change.

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