Can Architecture Fix This?

For the last episode of the season focusing on Transformation, we're asking: Can Architecture Fix Outdated Buildings? We’ve invited Florian Kosche, a structural engineer in Oslo, Norway, to share stories from working with historic and structurally challenging transformation projects. Links:www.difk.no

Today we’re asking - ‘Can Architecture Fix the Brittle City?’.We’ve invited William Mann, an architect and principal at Witherford Watson Mann architects in London, to share a story about working with urbanity in and around London.Links:http://www.wwmarchitects.co.uk/A Latecomer Imagines the Cityhttp://www.wwmarchitects.co.uk/site/assets/files/2370/alatecomerimaginesthecity.pdfRichard Sennett ‘The Open City’https://urbanage.lsecities.net/essays/the-open-cityFordlandia, Brazilhttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazonWilliam Mann ‘Untimely Buildings’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcOdZKUu_I8Charles and Ray Eames ‘Powers of Ten’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

This week we're asking: Can Architecutre Fix Waste? We’ve invited Lasse Kilvær, an architect and component reuse consultant with Resirqel, to share a story about the practice of re-use in Norway, and his contribution as an author and project manager for the Research and Development project entitled Proper Reuse of Building Materials published by the Directorate for Building Quality in Norway in 2019.If you would like to know more about Lasse Kilvær and his company Resirqel, you can find information online at http://www.resirqel.no/

This week we're asking: Can Architecture Fix Education? We’ve invited Michael Speaks, dean of the School of Architecture at Syracuse University, to share his thoughts about how architectural education and education in general is transforming. If you would like to know more about Michael Speaks or Syracuse University, you can find information online at:https://soa.syr.edu/https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelspeaks/

We’re kicking off season two by talking with Elin T. Sørensen and Eli Rinde and asking: Can Architecture Fix: Dying Seascapes?If you would like to learn more about Elin and Eli’s work, you can find information online at the following links:www.fjordskole.nowww.urbanthav.nowww.niva.nohttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/848167/848168https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/848167/848207

This week we are asking: Can Architecture Fix the Water's Edge! It’s the last episode of this season, and we’ve come back to our hometown Oslo for a conversation with Jenny Mäki. Jenny, along with producer Ingjerd Kleivan and host Rebekah Schaberg, was a co-editor of the Out of the Blue book anthology where all of the stories you’ve heard this season (and more) were first chronicled. In this interview, we talk about how the studio’s blue focus all began, and about the Harbor Promenade project which is one of the main reasons White arkitekter established a studio in Oslo.For more information about the Harbor Promenade project, please visit our website at www.whitearkitekter.com. You can find Jenny Mäki on Instagram @jenny.maki or on facebook @Jenny.ME.Maki.Send us an email at [email protected]

This week we are asking: Can Architecture Fix Industrial Boom and Bust!Thomas Riis is an architect and member of the Greenland Counsel of Cultural Heritage. Thomas wrote an article for our Out of the Blue book which chronicled the story about how the fishing industry quickly changed waterfront sites around Greenland that had previously been completely untouched, and how that industry just as quickly disappeared, leaving remnants of a community behind. These sites have since become a point of contention in the cultural heritage discussion.You can see images of the Nordafar fish processing facility before the clean up on Lisa Germany Photographyhttps://world.lisagermany.com/nordafar-abandoned-fish-processing-factory-near-nuuk/

This week we are asking: Can architecture fix the challenges of living in tropical floodplains?Joran van Schaik and Pieter Ham share a story from Manila Bay in the Philippines, where they along with several collaborators founded the non-profit Finch Floating Homes, and developed a pilot home that might help a community adapt to climate change.If you would like to know more about Finch Floating Homes, you can visit their website at https://www.finchfloatinghomes.com/

This week we are asking: Can Architecture Fix the melting permafrost!We’ve invited William Gagnon who is a Green Building Engineer at the Canada mortgage and Housing corporation in innovation and climate. William’s article tells the story about how communities in the Northwest Territories of Canada are dealing with both technical and psychological challenges as glaciers in the territory melt causing rivers to run backwards, and as foundations of peoples homes subside due to melting permafrost.If you would like to find more information about William’s work, you can follow him at williamgagnon.ca, and on both twitter and instagram under the handle wgagnon. You can also read more articles from William on medium.com under the handle @gagnon.will.williamgagnon.ca twitter.com/wgagnon instagram.com/wgagnon https://medium.com/@gagnon.will/decarbonizing-northern-canada-heal-the-land-and-support-the-people-bc9482f7d6bf

This week we are asking: Can Architecture Fix Urban Water Management? And it’s a story from our own home town, Oslo! We’ve invited Tharan Fergus who is a Senior Engineer and Project Developer at the Oslo Municipal Water and Sewage Management Department. If you would like to learn more about Oslo’s initiative to reopen the rivers and waterways, you can find it on their website at www.oslo.kommune.no. Unfortunately most of the publications about the project are only available in Norwegian at this time, but some information can be found if you search for ‘reopening waterways’ on their portal.