Edward Jones is the co-author, along with the late Christopher Woodward, of the Guide to the Architecture of London, which, originally published in 1983, is now in its fifth edition and has become the definitive guide book of the subject. In 2017 the guide book became the basis of an app - called the London architecture Guide, and one of the Architecture Foundation’s most ambitious projects. earlier this year a range of entries was added by Jones alongside a new generation of authors, and it was on this occasion that we met to talk about the guide book’s legacy and its evolution. 

“What matters hugely to me is that architecture has a role to play in public life. That’s what this book is about - to celebrate excellence in architecture, and to be somewhat critical of things we don’t argee with…there should be a debate about architecture in the city” – Edward Jones

Show notes: 

Arcades, the history of a building type by Geist, Johann Friedrich (1983)

College City, Colin Rowe (1978)

John Rocque's map of London, Westminster and Southwark (1746)

London The Unique City by Steen Eiler Rasmussen (1934)

Gilbey House, Serge Chermayeff, London, 1937

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dorsa is a collective architecture practice founded by Yufei He, James Horkulak and Pan Hu in 2021. In their own words, they "seek to capture multiple and parallel realities concealed within our time, and employ whichever medium necessary to create optimistic narratives for an empathic future."

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This episode was generously supported by the Swiss Embassy in the UK.

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This episode was recorded live at the Barbican Centre's Frobisher Auditorium on 25 June 2024, with panelists Bob Allies of Allies and Morrison; Charlie Edmonds of the grassroots activist group Future Architects Front; Cristina Gaidos + Maia Rollo of the recently formed union Section of Architectural Workers; and Jane Issler Hall + Owen Lacey of the the architecture collective Assemble. 

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Petra Blaisse is a designer and founding partner of Inside / Outside.

Blaisse started her career in 1978 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Department of Applied Arts. From 1986 onwards, she worked as freelance exhibition designer and won distinction for her installations of architectural works. Gradually her focus shifted to the use of textiles, light and finishes in interior space and, at the same time, to the design of gardens and landscapes. In 1991, she founded Inside Outside. The studio worked in a multitude of creative areas, including textile, landscape and exhibition design. From 1999 Blaisse invited specialist of various disciplines to work with her and currently the team consists of about ten people of different professions and nationalities.

A new monograph of Blaisse's work, called Art Applied, was published earlier this year by MACK. Edited and introduced by Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen, with newly commissioned texts by Penelope Curtis, Christophe Girot, Rem Koolhaas, Charlotte Matter, Fatma Al Sehlawi, Jack Self, Laurent Stalder, Helen Thomas, and Philip Ursprung.

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The Architecture Foundation gratefully acknowledge the Delegation of Flanders to the UK for their support in producing this episode.

Recorded on site at Horst Arts and Music Festival in Vilvoorde, Belgium on Saturday 11 May 2024, episode 108 includes conversations with Mattias Staelens, founder of Onkruid and the inspiration behind the Horst Festival, and Carole Depoorter, Horst art and architecture programme coordinator. It also features a panel discussion with Stefanie Everaert (Doorzon & Stand van Zaken), Serban Ionescu, Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene (Piovenefabi).

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Florian Summa and Anne Femmer are founding directors of the Leipzig based Summacumfemmer and guest professors at the University of the Arts in Berlin.

The practice's built work includes San Riemo (2020), a co-operative housing development in Munich designed with Büro Juliane Greb. Summa and Femmer were co-curators of Open for Maintenance, the German contribution to the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.

“[Teaching architecture] doesn’t work when you don’t have real problems, and so this is the strategy we find most useful for us right now: leave the university, leave the institution and go to the problems directly. This prevents you from just talking and mapping and analyzing things, and having the whole thing just remain a conversation within the institution. What we liked about the Venice project was that the most successful projects were the ones that went directly to the workshop – thinking while making.” – SCF

*Join Florian and Anne at this year's Architecture Foundation Summer School (11-15 September). To learn more and register, click here.*

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Minsuk Cho is a Korean architect and designer of this year's Serpentine Pavilion.

"We have a demanding role as architects, and I think movies are a good comparison: it’s always so polarising – there are serious directors, versus blockbuster directors – but there is a way of doing both."

Show notes:

• Eun-Me Ahn - Korean Choreographer 
• Cities on the Move - exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and You Hanrou
• Jang Young-Gyu - Korean musician and composer responsible for the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion’s sound installation 
• Heman Chong and archivist Renée Staal - collaborators on the 2024 Pavilion’s “Library of Unread Books” 
• Won Buddhism Wonnam Temple by MASS Studies 
• Madang, traditional Korean courtyard
• References: Bruno Taut & Buckminster Fuller 
• 2006 Serpentine Pavilion by Rem Koolhaas with Cecil Balmond 
• 2010 Shanghai Expo Pavilion by MASS Studies
• Crow's Eye View: The Korean Peninsula – 2014 Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion co-curated by Minsuk Cho 
• Gottfried Semper’s Four Elements of Architecture (1851)
• Eduard Glissant - Philosopher and poet from Martinique 
• OM Ungers’ 1978 essay on Berlin’s Green Archipelago 
• Bong Joon-ho - Korean director (Host, Ok-ja, Parasite)
• Park Chan-wook - Korean director (Old Boy, the Handmaiden, Decision to Leave)

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This week, AF Trustee Shumi Bose moderates a discussion on the state of architectural education with panellists Adrian Lahoud (Dean, School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art), Kester Rattenbury (former Professor of Architecture at the University of Westminster), and Neal Shasore (Head of the London School of Architecture). The event was recorded in front of a live audience on 1 February 2023 at Benk and Bo in Aldgate, London.

An upcoming live panel, titled "The Rights of the Architectural Worker" takes place on the evening of Tuesday 25 June at the Barbican Centre, with speakers Bob Allies (Allies and Morrison) Charlie Edmonds (Future Architects Front) and Jane Issler Hall (Assemble), as well as members of the Section of Architectural Workers. For more information and to book your tickets, follow this link.

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This special episode of Scaffold features a brief interview with the Austrian architect Herman Czech conducted by David Kohn in advance of Czech's 10.05.2024 Architecture Foundation lecture. The interview was recorded at Kohn's recently completed Smart's Place project in Covent garden for Baylight Properties.

Czech's lecture coincided with a major retrospective of his work, Approximate Line of Action, that has been staged by FJK3 Contemporary Art Space in Vienna.

Special thanks this week to Crispin Kelly / Baylight Properties for their support.

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Takaharu and Yui Tezuka founded Tezuka Architects in 1994 and are best known for their experimental designs for schools and kindergartens, chief among them the Fuji School in Tokyo. They are currently fundraising to build a new orphanage and school in India called the Jhamtse Gatsal Learning Centre.

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Phineas Harper develops cultural programmes that engage broad audiences with architecture and design. A regular contributor to The Guardian and former Chief Executive of Open City, their career spans criticism, curation, education, youth engagement, journalism and sculpture.

"I see my work as always having an eye on some other change that is about making a better built environment […] and that’s why I admire architects so much, because they have the patience and the care to see a project through. I think there’s a lot the we in the critical, curatorial, discursive world have to learn from architects in that regard.”

Phin's exhibition "Cascades" is on now until 1 June at San Mei Gallery

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