Scratching the Surface

On this week's episode, Jarrett Fuller is joined by Space Popular's Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg to talk about the relationship between virtual and physical spaces, how media shapes architecture, and the role of the architect in shaping digital environments. Lara Lesmes and Fredrik Hellberg are the founders of Space Popular, an architecture studio that explores relationships between media and the built environment through research, design, and artworks. They are also professors at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna where they run the Architectural Design Studio 2. 🎧 Listen to the episode: https://lnkd.in/eWaUtgGC

Today on our site, we're honored to be publishing an exclusive edited excerpt from Tony Smith Architecture Catalogue Raisonné Volume 2 written by James Voorhies! 👏 Edited by Voorhies and Sarah Auld, the catalogue presents the full extent of production in architecture by Tony Smith. Combined with a companion publication Against Reason: Tony Smith, Architecture, and Other Modernisms, the two books devoted to architecture are part of the Tony Smith Catalogue Raisonné Project, which presents Smith’s complete oeuvre in sculpture and architecture. Published by The MIT Press, the project is intended to position Smith’s transdisciplinary practice in dialogue with contemporary voices in art and architecture. 👉 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/egXNZJ43

Today in our members-only newsletter, we caught up with our friend Ian Lynam to talk about his new book, Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875-1975, which is now available from Set Margins! 👉 Scratching the Surface members get immediate access to the interview over on our Substack. Sign up today for $5/month or $50/year for more interviews like this every month. 📖 Link to the interview and to sign up: https://lnkd.in/dD8URX3Y

On this week's episode, Jarrett Fuller is joined by researcher, designer, engineer, and entrepreneur Julian Bleecker to talk about the origins of design fiction, how he applies it with corporate clients, and how we can get design students to rediscover imagination. Julian runs Near Future Laboratory, a platform and consultancy focused on design fiction. He is the author of Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact, and Fiction and co-author of The Manual of Design Fiction, among other titles. 🎧 Listen to the episode: https://lnkd.in/e76M-e_u

On this week's episode, Jarrett Fuller is joined by critic, technologist and author of the book Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia Mike Pepi to talk about the role of criticism, the differences between platforms and institutions, and why Silicon Valley needs the art world more than the other way around. Mike writes about art, culture, and technology and has been published in Frieze, e-flux, Artforum, and The Brooklyn Rail and others. 🎧 Listen to the episode: https://lnkd.in/dW6Gr62E

The March edition of our newsletter went out this morning! ⁣ ⭐️ This month we're sharing recent writing projects, and interviews from past guests like LinYee Yaun, Paul Soulellis, Jack Murphy, Craig Mod, Alexandra Lange and more! ⁣ 🤑 While our monthly newsletter is free for all, paid subscribers get bonus interviews each month and help keep our work free for everyone! Help support the show for just $5/month or $50/year. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gtqTv2VW

We are very excited for Archigram: The Magazine, a new Kickstarter project from Artbook | D.A.P.  and Designers & Books reissuing “architecture’s most influential, innovative, and beloved underground magazine” in a new box set alongside extended essays and texts putting the magazine into historical context. Until Thursday, early backers can get the boxset at a discount! As long-time fans of Archigram, we immediately backed the project and are excited to be republishing an excerpt of David Grahame Shane's essay from the box set today on our site. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gCHPZYGG

Thank you, Jarrett Fuller, for the pub day interview! Available on the Scratching the Surface members’ substack:

👏 Happy publication day to Aggie Toppins whose new book, Thinking Through Graphic Design History, is available today from Bloomsbury Publishing Plc! 📚 For our members-only newsletter, we caught up with Aggie to talk about the book and how it's changed how she thinks about graphic design history. 👉 Scratching the Surface members get immediate access to the interview over on our Substack. Sign up today for $5/month or $50/year for more interviews like this. 📖 Read the interview here: https://lnkd.in/egW3qPFX

On this week's episode, Jarrett Fuller talks with Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro about the evolution of her practice and approach to architecture, thinking about design both as problem solving and cultural production, and how a generation of paper architects changed the field. Elizabeth Diller is a partner and co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro where she’s worked on a range of buildings including New York’s The Shed, the Highline, and an expansion of MoMA. Since 1981, the studio’s practices has spanned architecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print, all of which is featured in their new monograph Architecture, Not Architecture, which is out now from Phaidon! (📸 Photo by Geordie Wood) 🎧 Listen to the episode: https://lnkd.in/e79r6ThQ