World Architecture Festival Podcast

LECTURE Resilient Architecture in Sub-Saharan AfricaIssa Diabaté, Partner, Koffi & Diabaté ArchitectsChair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture FestivalThis episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2020.

Business Stream - Delivery Part TwoExploring and understanding the business of architecture Tadahiko Murao, Executive Officer, Nikken Sekkei Jan Henckens, Senior Manager, Global Business Development Management Department, Nikken Sekkei Chair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture FestivalThis episode was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.

Hospitals: An Evolving TypologyWith the COVID 19 pandemic raging around the world, health design is at the forefront of many people's minds, whether or not they are in the health field. While we've seen paradigm shifts and pivots in healthcare in the past, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is so significant - we believe we will see a true global transformation of health design as a result. Hospitals will evolve their operations due to the pandemic and other changing global conditions and so, a typological evolution must continue to occur in hospital design. Jean Mah and Ralph Johnson will discuss the historical evolution of the modern hospital, the current state of the art of hospital design with case studies from their current work, and how the hospital typology might continue to evolve in the future. Ralph Johnson, Global Design Director, Perkins + WillJean Mah, Principal - Health, Perkins + WillChair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture FestivalThis episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2020.

Post Covid Shopping: Retail ReloadedLaurie Chetwood will be looking at how the current challenges facing the High Street are an opportunity for designers to participate in repurposing redundant town and city centres. He will discuss how not only high street buildings, but also urban infrastructure systems are being repurposed. Logistics is no longer just a big box on the side of the motorway keeping the rain off stored goods but is evolving into urban logistics: an integral part of a repurposed urban supply chain, and the driving force behind the new social and community-focused experiential retail.Laurie Chetwood, Chairman, Chetwoods ArchitectsChair: Paul Finch, Programme Director, World Architecture FestivalThis episode was recorded at WAFVirtual2020.

ThinkspaceDesign, the Environment & Public HealthProfessor Nick Tyler, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering |Director, UCL Centre for Transport StudiesProfessor Allyson Pollock, Director, Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory ScienceSandy Nairne, Writer & CuratorThis episode was recorded at WAFVirtual 2020.

WAF Keynote: Prototypes for the FutureWe live in extraordinary times and, in many ways, the challenges facing cities, cultures and the planet have never been greater. Some have speculated that the global COVID pandemic is merely first tremors of a vast shockwave brought on by environmental decline, failed socio-economic policy and cynical political manipulation. Perhaps more than ever before, the need for reconsidering the fundamental values, agendas and possibilities of architecture and urbanism is clear. We must begin to imagine fundamentally new questions and trajectories that go beyond the lifeless, recycled formalisms, neoDarwinian ethics and vacant marketing-speech—we must begin to answer the question of how can we, as architects, work towards a living future for our spaces, societies and species? In this talk, Ole Scheeren, Principal of international architectural practice Buro Ole Scheeren, will explore the role of this question in the work of the office and how the search for an answer has informed the development of several of the office's unprecedented and city-defining structures.Ole Scheeren, Principal, Büro Ole Scheeren

Business Stream - Delivery Part OneThe Business of Architecture: Project Managing ArtThe business of architecture is often a struggle between the designers who want to design and the managers who want to manage. Astute project delivery planning can turn this clash into a workable dynamic, centered on common goals of quality, responsibility, and service to the client—a way to manage expectations but produce something meaningful. Honing project management to find a balance between artistic achievement and prudent oversight will help businesses make money and strive for excellence.Dean Kaardal, Vice President, Regional Business Leader - Buildings, Canada West, StantecRobin Nicholson, Partner, Cullinan StudioChair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture FestivalThis episode was recorded live at WAFVirtual 2020.

Post Covid Schools: How the Pandemic can Lead to Better SchoolsFollowing on from alma-nac's publication 'Simple Solutions for Safer Schools' Chris will be talking about some of the ways schools in England are being innovative in dealing with Covid restrictions. He will also reflect on how positive lessons learnt from the pandemic can influence school design in the future.Chris Bryant, Director, alma-nac Melanie Mortimer, Head of Design Technology, Dulwich Prep LondonChair: Jeremy Melvin, Curator, World Architecture Festival