Attention — Audio Journal for Architecture

Attention — Audio Journal for Architecture

Architecture Exchange

Episodes 64
Avg. Duration 37m
Activity Dormant
Apple Rating 4.8 (12)
Since Jan 2013
Latest Episode Jan 2026

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About This Podcast

Attention is an audio journal for architectural culture that uses the medium of sound and spoken word to capture a dimension of architecture otherwise lost in print. By precluding visual media, Attention strikes a distance between the distraction economy of much online media, creating an intimate and reflective space for the in-depth development of ideas and issues. Through interviews, roundtable debates, oral histories, field recordings, the exploration of archival recordings, experimental music and soundscapes, reportage and audio essays, Attention investigates issues of concern to contemporary architectural culture, theory and practice.

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Recent Episodes

8M. Coda: Pluralism Is Not Enough

Jan 30, 2026

In this episode, titled “Pluralism is Not Enough,” Joseph Bedford offers some provisional thoughts interpreting the situation of this generation of academic architects in the United States. He argues…

8L. Conclusion

Jan 28, 2026

In this episode, Tim Cox reflects on this issue of attention, and reads the aesthetic and ideological output of the interviewees as in conversation with the discipline of architecture’s waning…

8K. Practice

Jan 26, 2026

In this episode we hear from this generation on their experience with building practice in contemporary America. The cohort is focused on moving away from speculative or gallery work and towards…

8J. Academia

Jan 23, 2026

In this episode we address the affordances and constraints of architectural academia. This generation highlights the important freedom academia provides to work through ideas that are not directly…

8I. Discipline

Jan 21, 2026

In this episode, we heard this generation struggle with their ambivalence around the discipline of architecture, which they saw as essential for maintaining a shared conversation, but also as…

8H. Theory

Jan 19, 2026

In this episode, our discussion of contemporary architectural theory is framed by the question of why there is no contemporary discipline-defining book of theory like Delirious New York, Complexity…

8G. Ideology

Jan 16, 2026

In this episode, we hear about the lack of ideological debate and disagreement within contemporary academic architectural culture. This generation airs their critiques of the performative,…

8F. Politics

Jan 14, 2026

In this episode, we address the political context of the interviews: the after effects of 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd uprisings. This moment produced a politicizing discourse within…

8E. Aesthetics

Jan 12, 2026

In this episode, we hear about the difficulty of constructing coherent aesthetic camps in this generation, exemplified by responses to Michael Meredith’s “Indifference, Again” (2017). Instead, we…

8D. Digital

Jan 09, 2026

In this episode we hear from this generation on their relationship to the digital. They discuss broad, societal experiences like watching the internet and social media emerge, and they grapple with…

8C. Genealogy

Jan 07, 2026

In this episode we trace the genealogies of this generation through academic lineages, their movements through the geography of American Academia, and the post-critical or projective discourses which…

8A. Introduction

Jan 04, 2026

In this introduction we hear from Joseph Bedford addressing what this issue is about, who he interviewed, what their work is about, what questions he asked everyone, why he undertook the project, and…

8B. Generation

Jan 04, 2026

In this episode we hear from the group of American academic architects that has been brought together by this issue of attention. The group pushes back against their characterization as a generation,…

7E. Bypass Codes

Sep 02, 2022 17m

In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the investigative journalist and veteran beat reporter Caryn Dolley about the use of biometric and building surveillance devices in organized crime networks.…

7D. Playing the Detective

Sep 02, 2022 37m

In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the artist, puzzle-maker, and escape room designer Laura E. Hall about the design of escape rooms for the public, building community, and the politics of…

7A. Introduction

Sep 02, 2022 5m

In this episode, Megan Eardley introduces Issue 7 by relating contemporary spatial practices to the literary detective story and present day political realities of surveillance, state violence, and…

7B. On the Threshold of Detectability

Sep 02, 2022 25m

Like proof, evidence typically refers to things, traces, marks, or signs, that can be studied to establish relevant facts and evaluate competing theories. But while proof has been associated with…

7C. Invisibility As Form

Sep 02, 2022 19m

In this episode, Megan Eardley invites listeners to reflect on the way that detective work operates between form and event. She interviews the artist Janice Kerbel about the use of detective work in…

7F. The Sound Of Secrecy

Sep 02, 2022 12m

In this episode, Megan Eardley interviews the writer and artist Bryan Finoki. He describes how he came to study the security industry and reflects on his process of harvesting his own field…

7G. Dark Freqs

Sep 02, 2022 18m

This episode presents Dark Freqs, an original sound piece by Bryan Finoki. Please note that the piece incorporates recordings of police brutality.

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