Failed Architecture

Failed Architecture

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Failed Architecture is a podcast on architecture and the real world. By opening up new perspectives on the built environment, we seek to explore the meaning of architecture in contemporary society. FA challenges dominant spatial fashions and explores alternative realities, reaching far beyond the architectural community. We combine personal stories with research and reflection, always remaining committed to the idea that architecture is about social justice and climate justice, pop culture and subculture, representation and imagination, and everything that happens after the building’s been built.

The Louvre and its surroundings have served for centuries as a dramatic expression of French imperial might, this symbolism was dramatically challenged in 2018 when Beyoncé and Jay-Z used the site to film the video for their single Apeshit.

Recent Episodes

  • #12 How Beyoncé Seized the Louvre

    4 years ago
  • #11 Architects Unionise!

    5 years ago
  • #10 Mecca to the Max: The Holy City Transformed

    5 years ago
  • #09 Listen to the City, It’s Trying to Tell You Something

    5 years ago
  • #08 Speer in Qatar or: How Architects Stopped Caring and Learned to Love the Client

    5 years ago
  • #07 Incompiuto: Italy’s Most Prominent Architectural Style

    5 years ago
  • #06 Architects in Calais: On Border Systems and Self-built Cities

    6 years ago
  • #05 London Undone: Gaika and Ash Sarkar Discuss the City’s Past, Present and Future

    6 years ago
  • #04 Alexandra Lange: Judging Architecture and How We Design for Kids

    6 years ago
  • #03 Modernism Distorted: Selling Utopia From Kleiburg to Keeling House

    6 years ago