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Scaffold

Interviews with architects, artists and designers. Produced by the Architecture Foundation and hosted by Matthew Blunderfield. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

In this episode of "Scaffold," Matthew Blunderfield hosts critics Fabrizio Gallanti, Emily Conklin, and Phin Harper to dissect the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. They critique the Biennale's curatorial ambiguity, its overwhelming content, and its reliance on technology, questioning whether it served as a genuine pl...

Patrick McGraw (Heavy Traffic Magazine)

06 Jun 2025

1h 6m

Jacques Herzog & Nicholas Serota with Ellis Woodman

12 May 2025

58m

Carlo Ratti

07 May 2025

27m

Michael Meredith

01 May 2025

1h 49m

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Architecture serves as a site for exploring the tension between irony and sincerity, where the boundaries between life and work remain deliberately porous. Michael Meredith, co-founder of the practice MOS, emphasizes that architecture functions best when it embraces doubt and avoids the grandiose pretensions of corpora...