In this episode, Ana Miljački speaks with Troy Schaum and Rosalyne Shieh of SCHAUM/SHIEH about matching a client’s ambition with economic feasibility, the privilege of being able to refuse work, the space that emerges out of energetic conflict, and the power of doing nothing.

Atlanta-based architects Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam chat with Ana Miljački about inventiveness and emotional specificity.

Michael Maltzan discusses the architect’s role in negotiating complex scenarios and the potential of long-term client relationships to enable large-scale change.

Ana Miljački speaks with Bryan Lee about design justice and challenging the architectural status quo.

Sheila Kennedy and Frano Violich discuss their Boston-based practice, KVA MATx.

Liz Diller of New York-based Diller Scofidio + Renfro speaks with Ana Miljački about evaluating the ethics of commissions and translating projects for different audiences.

Ana Miljački speaks with Walter Hood about artistic freedom, working with institutions, and succeeding through failure.

Ana Miljački chats with Tod and Billie of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects about the contrasts of institutional versus commercial projects, developing relationships with clients, and finding meaning in work.

Tatiana Bilbao of CDMX-based Tatiana Bilbao Estudio talks with Ana Miljački about working with governmental bodies, social housing, changing office culture, and how to engage the leverage points within systems of power.

Sara Zewde and Ana Miljački talk about alternative ways of doing landscape architecture, racial tokenism, design cyphers, and the value of architects as synthesizers.

Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of Brooklyn-based studio SO – IL chat with Ana Miljački on a wide range of topics, such as discerning a client’s political intentions, the power of an architectural brand, and the possibility for architecture to transcend its relationship with an institutional client.

Amale Andraos and Dan Wood of NY-based firm WORKac talk with Ana Miljački about different facets of sustainability, the lessons learned from saying yes to everything, and regrets, among other topics.

Natalie de Blois, the first woman to be named senior designer at Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill, discusses her career with architect Françoise Bollack.

March 31, 1976 | Recordings from a dinner honoring Ray and Charles Eames at the National Arts Club in New York City | Reissued as part of Mid-Century Masters, a digital archive series.

October 22, 1987 | Part of the lecture series Three Modern Architects | Reissued as part of Mid-Century Masters, a digital archive series.

A recording of a 1985 lecture by influential Postmodern theorist Charles Jencks.

A 1985 James Stirling lecture about projects including the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

Michael Graves discussed the Portland Building, one of the icons of postmodernism, in this lecture presented shortly after the building’s completion.