Michael Meredith Launches Architecture Podcast The Department of Buildings
Michael Meredith has launched a new architecture podcast titled The Department of Buildings, which can be found on popular streaming platforms. In each episode, guests share their favorite architectural works and explore how these structures relate to their own creative processes. Among the featured guests are Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mónica Ponce de León, and Hilary Sample. The podcast discusses various projects, including the Occupational Health Unit for Guinness Brewery by Alison and Peter Smithson, Lacol’s La Borda Cooperative Housing, and Frank Gehry’s Ron Davis House. Meredith, a professor at Princeton, developed the podcast while crafting a course syllabus and previously created Building with Writing about Stan Allen. He aims to build a community around architectural discourse, receiving positive feedback on his efforts.
Key facts
- The Department of Buildings is a new architecture podcast created by Michael Meredith.
- Episodes are available now on major streaming apps.
- Guests select a building that has inspired them and discuss connections to their own work.
- Guests include Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mónica Ponce de León, Wonne Ickx, Jeannette Kuo, Sam Jacob, Amale Andraos, Mark Lee, Tatiana Bilbao, Andrew Holder, Tei Carpenter, Neil Denari, and Hilary Sample.
- Meredith is a professor at Princeton and is currently teaching a class on architectural attention.
- The podcast emerged while Meredith was preparing the syllabus for that course.
- Meredith previously created Building with Writing, a podcast about Stan Allen, released last year with a Princeton exhibition designed by MOS.
- Both podcasts use episode title cards designed by Alex Lin.
- Meredith leads MOS with Hilary Sample, who is also a guest on the podcast.
- Meredith criticizes contemporary architecture media for a short attention span and a neoliberal model.
- He worries that young practices are coalescing toward one big office due to similar representation.
- Feedback has been positive, but Meredith is waiting for the haters.
Entities
Artists
- Michael Meredith
- Tatiana Bilbao
- Andrew Holder
- Tei Carpenter
- Neil Denari
- Pier Vittorio Aureli
- Mónica Ponce de León
- Wonne Ickx
- Jeannette Kuo
- Sam Jacob
- Amale Andraos
- Mark Lee
- Hilary Sample
- Frank Gehry
- Le Corbusier
- Victor Horta
- Alison Smithson
- Peter Smithson
- Stan Allen
- Alex Lin
Institutions
- Princeton University
- Columbia GSAPP
- MOS
- Lacol
- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
- Syracuse University
- The Department of Buildings
- Building with Writing
Locations
- Barcelona
- Spain
- Malibu
- United States
- Firminy
- France
- Brussels
- Belgium
- London
- United Kingdom
- Princeton
- Syracuse