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Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Harriet Jennings is in conversation with Naina Gupta, an architect, writer and educator with a PhD from the AA who recently launched her book  Extraordinary Pools  at the AA Booksho...

Files on Air is a podcast series in which contributors from  AA Files  read their work. In this episode, Sony Devabhaktuni – an architect, writer and Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College – reads his essay ‘Still-Time at Amaravati’, found in AA Files 81 . AA Files  is the Architectural Association’s journal of record, which promotes original and engaging writing on architecture and its re...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Ryan Dillon is in conversation with Mike Tonkin, cofounder of Tonkin Liu Architects, who launched their book Asking, Looking, Playing, Making: A Nature-focused Design Process at the AA Booksh...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Ryan Dillon is in conversation with Tom Emerson, cofounder of 6a Architects and Professor of Architecture at ETH Zürich who recently launched his book Dirty Old River at the AA. AirAA podcast...

Files on Air is a podcast series in which contributors from  AA Files  read their work. In this episode, George Jepson – a writer, researcher and editor who holds a PhD from the AA – reads his essay, ‘Demystifying Automation: Charles Babbage and the Invention of the ‘Thinking Machine’, found in AA Files 81 . AA Files  is the Architectural Association’s journal of record, which promotes origin...

Files on Air is a podcast series in which contributors from  AA Files  read their work. In this episode, María Páez González – an architect, educator and Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Wien – reads her essay, ‘A Commanding Type? Lessons from Silicon Valley on the Architecture of Headquarters’, found in  AA Files 81 . The essay is an architectural reading of Silicon Valley's tech headquarters a...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Leela Keshav is in conversation with Lex Fefegha, a creative coder and artist who makes interactive experiences using XR and AI, and who participated in the AA's event Disrupting the Sys...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode of the AirAA podcast On the Steps of 36, Leela Keshav is in conversation with Alessia Gammarota, a photographer and campaigner with Fight 4 Aylesbury who participated in the AA's event 'The Re...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Harriet Jennings is in conversation with Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian, a pluridisciplinary artist, filmmaker and designer of experiences who participated in the AA's event 'Doppelgängers³: Inte...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Harriet Jennings is in conversation with Saskia O'Hara, a legal caseworker and community legal organiser at the Public Interest Law Centre. Saskia participated in 'Consultation Counter Cultur...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Leela Keshav is in conversation with Olivia Oldham, a PhD researcher in agroecology who co-organised the symposium  Locating the Agrarian Struggles for Land,  which took place at th...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Harriet Jennings is in conversation with Caterina Frisone, author of  The Therapeutic Power of the Maggie's Centre , which was launched at the AA Bookshop last term. AirAA podcasts are c...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Harriet Jennings is in conversation with Andrew Holmes, an artist and former AA tutor whose large-scale photorealistic drawings were displayed at the AA in autumn 2024 in the  GAS TANK C...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Manijeh Verghese is joined by Jordan Whitewood-Neal, an architectural researcher, designer and artist whose work addresses disability, domesticity, pedagogy and cultural infrastructure. Jorda...

Files on Air is a podcast series in which contributors from  AA Files   read their work. In this episode, Rebecca Crabtree – an architect, lecturer and PhD candidate at the RCA – reads her essay, ‘Closing Time ’ , found in AA Files 80.  The essay reveals the multifaceted significance of coaching inns as both domestic and commercial spaces in 18th- and 19th-century England, a time of rapid ind...

Join us On the Steps of 36: a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Ryan Dillon is joined by Brendan Cormier, Chief Curator at the V&A East and the editor of Pandemic Objects , published by AA Publications in collaboration with the V&A in February 202...

Join us  On the Steps of 36 : a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Ryan Dillon is joined by Ella Adu, an architect and writer whose research considers changing modes of grassroots cultural production in Britain. Adu was also the assistant curator of t...

Join us  On the Steps of 36 : a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Manijeh Verghese is joined by Ellie Sampson, a model maker, paper cut artist and lecturer. Sampson also participated in the AA event Warburg Models: Buildings as Bilderfahrzeuge earlie...

Join us  On the Steps of 36 : a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Ryan Dillon is joined by Martha Summers, an artist, architect and designer based in London. Earlier this year, Summers participated in the AA event Collective Efforts: Navigating Frict...

Join us  On the Steps of 36 : a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Ryan Dillon is joined by Arinjoy Sen, an artist and architect whose work focuses on the politics and aesthetics of architecture and space. Sen participated in the AA event Collaborativ...

Join us  On the Steps of 36 : a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Manijeh Verghese is joined by George Massoud, an architect, educator, cultural worker and a director of Material Cultures – a design and research practice based in London. Massoud also...

Join us  On the Steps of 36 : a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Manijeh Verghese is joined by Mohamed Elshahed, a writer, curator and architectural historian. Elshahed participated in the AA symposium Beyond Eurocentrism: Rethinking the Architectur...

Join us  On the Steps of 36 : a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Manijeh Verghese is joined by Sarah Ackland, an architect, researcher and host of the podcast 29% Equal . Ackland participated in the event Making Visible at the AA in 2023 – you can w...

Files on Air is a podcast series in which contributors from AA Files read their work. In this episode, you will hear Michelle Millar Fisher and Amber Winick – authors of the book Designing Motherhood – read their text 'Birth Places: From the Bedroom to the Hospital and Back Again'. In this piece, Fisher and Winick examine the design histories of certain hospitals, birthing centres and other models...

Join us  On the Steps of 36 : a question-and-answer conversation that crosses thresholds into our guests’ histories, lives, influences and stories, shedding light on the person behind the work. In this episode, Ryan Dillon is joined by Elena Palacios Carral, an architectural researcher, educator and a founding director of architecture design and research platform Forms of Living. In 2023, she...