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How Can We Add Value?

At g3arquitectos, Juan Alfonso and María de los Ángeles Garduño Jardon have spent nearly three decades building spaces that strengthen communities, inspire solidarity, and imagine more equitable ways of making cities.

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Rebuilding from Within

Isadora Hastings García and Lizet Zaldivar López on rebuilding homes in rural Mexico after natural disaster, and why lasting resilience begins with ancestral knowledge.

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Stewards of Materials

Bobby Johnston and Ruth Mandl of Brooklyn-based CO Adaptive discuss why the built product is just one phase in a material's life, and how stewardship, not completion, defines their practice.

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Farm to Shelter

For B L D U S co-founders Jack Becker and Andrew Linn, healthy architecture begins with local materials and vernacular construction.

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Playfully Sincere

For Nick Hopson and Klara Rodstrom, a "scrappy" ethos allows Hopson Rodstrom Design Co. to thrive on a residential and socially oriented portfolio.

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Prototyping the Future

At Future Firm, Ann Lui, Craig Reschke, and Linda Chávez Baca expand architecture to build a more equitable city.

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A Slightly Unruly Practice

Anda and Jenny French of Boston-based French 2D discuss their approach to materializing the subversive potential of domesticity.

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LTL Architects

David J. Lewis, Paul Lewis, and Marc Tsurumaki speak with the host Ana Miljački about the “productive oscillation” between academic research, speculative drawing, and the material realities of building that defines their practice; LTL’s trajectory from the “opportunistic” spatial inventions of early New York interiors to an existential focus on biogenic materialities and the climate crisis; and their publications that reorient both the classroom and the construction site.

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Thom Mayne

In this episode, the founder of Morphosis recaps a career defined by “troublemaking.” He discusses framing architecture as a collaborative, cinematic process, the shift from private residences to international competitions and federal work, and the unique challenges of working in Los Angeles.

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Sign and Line

The Red Line, by competition winners Eric Arneson and Nahal Sohbati of Topophyla and Gabriel Castro-Andrade, is a site access strategy that uses bold and simple components to enhance safety and orderliness on construction sites.

Mel Chin

The multidisciplinary artist presents his work in a public lecture.

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nARCHITECTS

In this episode, the co-founders of NYC-based nARCHITECTS discuss rewriting briefs, expanding missions, engaging with communities, their resistance to architectural closure and fascination with “almost buildings,” and the value of leaving room for misusers.

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Leong Leong

In this episode, the co-founder of NYC-based Leong Leong discusses world building, feedback loops between aesthetics and politics, and professional growth as a reflection of ego death.

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