what people don't ask for – room for utopias podcast (episode 04)

Clients arrive with requirements: rooms, budgets, functions, images, expectations. But some of the most valuable things architecture can offer are things nobody initially requested. This conversation explores the architect's role not simply as someone who responds to a brief, but as someone capable of identifying possibilities that clients may not yet know how to articulate.

the architecture of togetherness – room for utopias podcast (episode 03)

Many architectural utopias begin with a deceptively simple question: how should we live together? Architecture structures encounters between people. It determines where we meet, what we share, how much privacy we have and how communities form. Rather than looking at buildings as collections of functions, this conversation asks whether architecture can actively encourage new forms of connection, care and collectiv...

my archischool prototypes architectural solutions for future green cities

hong kong-based my archischool is an independent architectural design institute run by full-time creatives who teach students through an active learning methodology. children learn by doing, creating thought-provoking designs while also thinking more about urban planning, sustainability and other important themes of the future. the school has become the first in its location to be fully supported by dassault systeme...

what the ground already knows – room for utopias podcast (episode 02)

perhaps architecture does not always need to begin with a new idea. every site already contains intelligence: climate, topography, materials, ways of building, patterns of occupation and accumulated knowledge. this conversation asks whether some of the most relevant architectural ideas for the future might already exist within the places where we build. find out more on designboom: https://www.designboom.com/archit...

a world shared with nature – room for utopias podcast (episode 01)

for much of architectural history, nature has been treated as something outside the building: landscape, view, climate or backdrop. but what if the built environment stopped putting humans at its absolute centre? this conversation explores architecture as a place of coexistence — where vegetation, climate, water and other forms of life are not decorative additions but participants in the project. find out more on de...

how tokyo integrates car parking into its architecture

how does tokyo make room for cars in one of the world’s densest cities? from narrow gaps between houses to parking spaces tucked beneath buildings, discover how japanese architecture integrates car parking into compact urban environments, turning limited space into clever design solutions.