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Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola’s three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape. Awash with petrodollars cultivated through strategic foreign relationships... more

31 Oct 2025 • 58 min

Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)

Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes.

From the mid-20th ... more

31 Oct 2025 • 1 hr 17 min

Robert Jan van Pelt, "The Barrack, 1572-1914: Chapters in the History of Emergency Architecture" (Park Books, 2024)

The Barrack, 1572–1914: Chapters in the History of Emergency Architecture (Park Books, 2024) tells the little-known history of a building type that many people used to register as an alien interloper in conventionally built-up areas. The barrack is ... more

30 Oct 2025 • 52 min

Cosima Clara Gillhammer, "Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

With implications for the history of religion and art alike, an exploration of the lasting influence of Christian liturgy across a range of media.

Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy (Reaktion Books, 2025) offers a captivating journey... more

30 Oct 2025 • 1 hr 12 min

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Pablo Meninato

An architect, architectural critic, educator, and native of Argentina

Temple University

Episode: Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)

Dr. Claudia Gastrow

Assistant Professor of Anthropology at North Carolina State University and author of The Aesthetics of Belonging.

North Carolina State University

Episode: Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)

Claudia Gastrow

Author of The Aesthetics of Belonging, exploring urbanism in Luanda amidst its historical context.

University of North Carolina Press

Episode: Claudia Gastrow, "The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda" (UNC Press Books, 2024)

Cosima Clara Gillhammer

Career development fellow in English at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

Episode: Cosima Clara Gillhammer, "Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the Liturgy" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

Robert Jan van Pelt

Architectural historian, author of The Barrack, 1572-1914

Park Books

Episode: Robert Jan van Pelt, "The Barrack, 1572-1914: Chapters in the History of Emergency Architecture" (Park Books, 2024)

Emily Gee

Author focused on historic building conservation and public histories

Liverpool University Press

Episode: Emily Gee, "Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

Carlotta Daro

Author of The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication

MIT Press

Episode: Carlotta Daro, "The Architecture of the Wire: Infrastructures of Telecommunication" (MIT Press, 2025)

Olga Touloumi

Associate Professor in Architectural History at Bard College

Bard College

Episode: Olga Touloumi, "Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)

Victoria Grau

Urban researcher and editor of the volume

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Episode: Harald Bodenschatz et al., "Urban Planning in Nazi Germany: Attack, Triumph, Terror in the European Context, 1933–1945" (DOM, 2025)

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Robert Jan van Pelt, "The Barrack, 1572-1914: Chapters in the History of Emergency Architecture" (Park Books, 2024)

Q: Why did you settle on 1572 as the first beginning?

In 1572, Haarlem suffered a siege by the Spanish army during the Dutch War of Independence, and the oldest drawing of military huts that are the precursor to the barrack originates from that period.

Robert Jan van Pelt, "The Barrack, 1572-1914: Chapters in the History of Emergency Architecture" (Park Books, 2024)

Q: In terms of this rebuttal to this Austrian architecture story, who were the main actors in this story? Are they famous architects that you've drawn up?

The story is really one that is in the margins of architecture, but it is actually quite central to the question of what architecture means. Very few architects of any reputation before 1914 were involved in this.

Robert Jan van Pelt, "The Barrack, 1572-1914: Chapters in the History of Emergency Architecture" (Park Books, 2024)

Q: Would you mind starting by just telling us how you came to write this book? What was the genesis of it?

I have been basically studying the history of German concentration camps, specifically Auschwitz, since the late 1980s, and I began to investigate the architectural history of barracks after a significant discovery during a research trip.

Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)

Q: How do you think these initiatives responded to community needs?

These initiatives often respect existing structures while striving to improve living conditions.

Pablo Meninato and Gregory Marinic, "Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America" (Routledge, 2025)

Q: How did you come across the initiatives you studied?

I aimed for a wide geographical spectrum to explore different approaches in interventions.

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