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Insights: Art and Architecture

Insights: Art and Architecture

Released: 2025-10-18
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7 Episodes
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7 Episodes
Audio
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Released: 2025-10-18
© Insights: Art and Architecture
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Remembering Kongjian Yu

Remembering Kongjian Yu

A Special Edition of our series following the tragic death of the visionary landscape architect, Kongjian Yu, who died in a plane crash in Brazil on September 23. No one was leading the way more boldly to save our planet from the climate crisis than Kon
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A Special Edition of our series following the tragic death of the visionary landscape architect, Kongjian Yu, who died in a plane crash in Brazil on September 23. No one was leading the way more boldly to save our planet from the climate crisis than Kongjian Yu. He was world famous for his successes in China and around the world. Kongjian’s core philosophy is Sponge City, a landscape infrastructure based on the idea that land can retain, mitigate, and purify rainwater. To describe it he himself evoked an ancient Chinese martial art: “doing tai chi with water.”
Episode ID: 1000732439598
GUID: 69833bbe-0afd-4880-9885-bc5b10991642
Release Date: 18/10/2025, 21:30:00

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What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, is 96 and about to open his Guggenheim Museum in Abu Dhabi and is still designing the greatest works of his career. Masters Frank Lloyd Wright and Phillip Johnson also worked into their 90s and were even more prolific than Gehry.
In this 5-part series, host Victoria Newhouse, a renowned architectural historian and age 87, chats with her contemporaries. Giants of architecture, all over age 80 and all still shaping the world. Guests include: Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Moshe Safdie, Peter Ei

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