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- Aug 22, 202416 min
108 _ THE END w/ Thoughts For Tomorrow
After eight years and over 100 episodes, the Night White Skies podcast is coming to an end. The program began as a look towards architecture's future knowing that both earth's environments and our human bodies are now open for design, and that's where we'll end. The program sought to engage a diverse range of perspectives for a better picture of the scenarios currently unfolding. Guests included philosophers Timothy Morton, and Emanuelle Coccia, architectural authors such as Catherine Ingraham<span class="TextRun SCXW120717055 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style= "font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; line-height
- Apr 16, 202443 min
107 _ Jeffrey Nesbit / Charles Waldheim_'Technical Lands'
Today's conversation is with Jeffrey Nesbit and Charles Waldheim about their book Technical Lands. It was great to have both Jeffrey and Charles back on the program. They've both been on here separately but today we're discussing their new edited book 'Technical Lands: A Critical Primer'. As they state in the book, designating land as technical is a political act and doing so entails dividing, marginalizing, and rendering portions of the Earth inaccessible. This is land that is often invisible and remote. The range of contributing authors includ
- Mar 12, 202455 min
106 _ Catherine Ingraham _ 'Architecture's Theory'
Today's conversation is with Catherine Ingraham and we're discussing her latest book, 'Architecture's Theory'. We each had our own experience in school when first introduced to architectural theory. Those classes were probably somewhat opaque for all of us. Even today you might read new articles and books related to theory and find yourself trying to hold onto ideas like dry sand in your hands. Over time, I've come to recognize that important concepts are often intrinsically unstable. Unlike the rest of your education up to that point which placed value <span
- Jan 30, 202453 min
105 _ Christopher Schaberg _ 'Adventure'
Sometimes it's only through repetition and time that insight into your actions are revealed. This might come about because aspects of those actions aren't always fully intentional. When it comes to Night White Skies, I firmly believe to be routed in architecture, but I've heard it described by others as often drifting beyond this topic. But what I've come to appreciate more and more over time is the importance of a 'hunch'. The idea that experience over time offers you the ability to see patterns and outcomes enough times that when an opportunity presents itself, you can see value within. A 'hunch' that pivoting in an unexpected direction can offer insight and opportunity. And so, when Night White Skies 'drifts' beyond architecture explicitly, I like to think it's because I'm playing a 'hunch'. <span class
- Nov 20, 202352 min
104 _ Vahid Vahdat and James Kerestes _ 'Cinematic Betwixt'
Today's conversation is with Vahid Vahdat and James Kerestes about their book 'Architecture, Film and the In-Between, Spatio Cinematic Betwixt'. Discussions about trying to give shape to an uncertain future have been a recurring topic on this program. This is in part because it seems that even the most informed people are aware of just enough to know how much they don't know. A changing climate, an evolving human body, and ubiquitous communication networks, AI, and social justice are just a few of the pressures facing us today. Such sustained change makes one wonder if the direction forward for architecture isn't making master plans or devising grand unifying theories but instead striving to ask better questions about what appears to be a prolonged period of transition. In other words, maybe the discipline should avoid once again claiming its value by retreating into its own autonomy or offering solutions to predefined problems and instead helping to curate and guide this transitional state in which so many unknowns exist before us. To better understand these environmental, technological and social transitions, architects need to be more involved in offering nimble, iterative projections that help give our future shape. But to do this, the architect likely needs to rethink our methods of working. <span class="TextRun SCXW36751304 BCX2" lang= "EN-US" style= "font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19.4
- Oct 16, 202341 min
103 _ Aleksandra Jaeschke _ 'Greening Codes'
Today's conversation is with Aleksandra Jaeschke about her book 'The Greening of America's Building Codes, Promises and Paradoxes'. There are realities we live with that are so ingrained in all aspects of our lives that we rarely think to question their origins. They are either intertwined with base economic standards or current laws and regulations and so to imagine an alternative would require not simple tweaks and updates but a fundamental restructuring of the whole system, and that's just not something many have time or even the inclination to pursue. I often think of that Fredric Jameson or Slavoj Zizek quote that 'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Capitalism.' Capitalism and climate change are so intertwined that it should come as no surprise that our relationship to nature and the environment has been shaped by an economic model of growth beyond all else. More specifically, the ways in which many in America (and I say America because this is where today's topic will be based) ...the way in which we are presented solutions and options for bettering our relationship to nature are through the purchase of better commodities. We are not incentivized to live with less or change our lifestyles, we're instructed through building codes, tax right offs and promises of energy cost savings to buy technologies for our homes and garages that will save us energy and money under the guise that this will also make a better planet. Our relationship with the environment is reminiscent of the old approach of purchasing indulgences that free us of guilt and consequ
- Sep 11, 202348 min
102 _ Dr Laura Ferrarello _ 'Design Ethics'
Today's conversation is about the role of teaching and discussing ethics during the design process. This week's conversation is about the role of ethics during the design process. For many people, whether working in an office or academia, ethics is likely just a passing topic discussed once a year in required seminar training or 'code of conduct' handouts. But today we are discussing how ethics can play a role during the design process. As Dr Laura Ferrarello states, it is not about claiming solutions when including ethics. Instead, we discuss exploring potential outcomes to better understand where we are now. When architects look to build spaces that integrate today's technologies, politics, policies, and environmental pressures all wrapped into a place where people are expected to live and work, friction is bound to occur. Being able to see this in advance is a good thing. It tells us a lot about where we are now. Playing out potential outcomes through design helps us reorientate our understanding of where we are now and what changes might need to be made before moving forward. You might be able to say that design ethics is about outcomes over solutions. There's no shortage of opportunities for architects and designers today. <p class="Paragraph SCXW119274008 BCX2" lang="EN-US" style= "font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: windowtex
- Aug 21, 202349 min
101 _ Jeffrey S. Nesbit _ 'Nature of Enclosure'
Today's conversation is with Jeffrey Nesbit about his book 'Nature of Enclosure'. So much of our architectural education and practice is reliant on the idea of control. Take representation for example. Without being able to quantify information about a site, materials or even people, how can we be expected to make decisions about what we ultimately build. If you can't quantify it in a representation of some sort, how can you be expected to design with it. How can you be expected to make creative and informed choices? I'm confident in saying that's the prevailing opinion. If we play this forward, there's the assumption that if an architect or landscape architect knows enough to represent it in drawing, diagram or statistics, then we can also reasonably understand the implications of those decisions. But that simply isn't the case. Either because we willfully exclude information (representations are of course by nature a kind of filter) or because our understanding of the information at hand was inherently lacking without our knowing. In this edited book by Jeffrey Nesbit called 'Nature Enclosed<span class= "Normal
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About Night White Skies
Join Sean Lally in conversation about architecture's future, as both earth's environment and our human bodies are now open for design. The podcast engages a diverse range of perspectives to get a better picture of the events currently unfolding. This includes philosophers, cultural anthropologists, policy makers, scientists as well as authors of science fiction. Each individual's work intersects this core topic, but from unique angles. Lally is the author of the book The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come and an associate professor of architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the recipient of the Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in Landscape Architecture.www.seanlally.net
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