Let's Talk Architecture

Join the Danish Architecture Center as we chat with some of the world’s leading architects, designers, planners, and engineers about their work and ideas. Let’s Talk Architecture introduces you to the creative and innovative minds behind the future of our buildings and cities. Let’s Talk Architecture introduces you to the creative and innovative minds behind the future of our buildings and cities. Get to know the creative and innovative minds that shapes Danish architecture. Author and journalist, Michael Booth, is not an architect, but he is curious about cities, and how they are built. In this podcast he ventures out into the city with architects, planners, and urban developers, while he asks them about the agendas, that shapes their projects and our built environment. They talk about everything from the aesthetics of the climate change, modernist masterpieces, extensive retail planning, rethinking of materials, sensuous architecture, transformation of existing buildings, the shaping of new architects, and much much more. Generous funding is provided by Realdania and the Danish Industry Foundation. Learn more at dac.dk/en/podcast

How to design for rising sea levels

How cloudbursts define the future of our cities

What's it like to live in a high-rise?

Why cultural heritage is more than good architecture

How architecture can improve life quality of hospitalized children

How to make good business within the planetary boundaries

How the 15 minutes city became a measure for urban quality

How rebuilding war-torn areas can accelerate the sustainable transition

What comes after concrete?

How to measure the unmeasurable qualities of urban space

How to transform buildings with no waste

How to build high-quality housing on the road to reduction

Sydney Opera House 50 years: How to make art out of compromises

How architecture can drive social change

Why waste cannot go to waste in the building industry

How experimenting can foster sustainable living

The secrets behind producing great architects

How inclusive design can increase learning

How AI changes architecture as we know it

How the rising sea levels call for new ways to imagine the future cities

Where to find ugly architecture in the World Capital of Architecture?

How to protect a livable city against disasters

How office design impacts the way your brain works

How scarce resources shape architecture

How cities adapt to the changing climate

How partnerships became essential in architecture

Why retail is key in catalyzing urban identity

How to keep the expanding city at eye level

How city design shapes your eating habits

How Danish architecture became world famous

Why a good city for kids is a city for everyone

Why architecture cannot speak for itself

How The Future is Democratic Architecture not Starchitecture

How architecture is the interplay between form and life

How to change the conversation at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021

Using waste as an architectural resource

How architecture shapes behavior

Hoard anything you can’t download: Douglas Coupland with Bjarke Ingels

When the present and future melt together: Douglas Coupland

Our planet’s future and the drivers of change: Arup’s Chris Luebkeman

Time as a resource: Anupamu Kundoo

Racing to finish Sagrada Familia: Arup’s Tristram Carfrae

Life on our planet not centered around us: Bruce Mau

DAC’s home in a transparent BLOX: OMA’s Ellen van Loon

Architecture on Mars?: BIG’s Jakob Lange with Tor Nørretranders

The business of architecture: BIG’s Sheela Søgaard

Giving form to the future: Bjarke Ingels

Restless at heart: Dorte Mandrup

The Architecture City: BLOX in Copenhagen