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AirAA is a multimedia platform that broadcasts conversations within the Architectural Association (AA) beyond its homes in Bedford Square, Hooke Park and Montague Street. Recorded and produced at the AA in London, the AA’s podcast series bring together voices from diverse disciplines. Series include On the Steps of 36, which features conversations between members of the AA community and invited guests; Files on Air, which provides audio readings from authors of selected essays from AA Files; and A Line Traced, which aims to ask challenging questions to examine topics that require urgent architectural responses.

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Files on Air is a podcast series in which contributors from AA Files read their work. In this episode, you will hear Madeleine Kessler and Manijeh Verghese – curators of the British Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale – read their text ‘Powers of Public Space', in which they examine some of the ideas that informed their Biennale display, including case studies on rewilded greens, playstreets and public libraries. You can read the piece in AA Files 78.

AA Files is the Architectural Association’s journal of record, which promotes original and engaging writing on architecture and its related fields.

AirAA podcasts are recorded, mixed, edited and distributed from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, which is based in Bedford Square in London. Special thanks to Thomas Parkes for his contribution to the production of our episodes.

The opinions expressed in AirAA podcasts are solely those of the participants and do not represent the opinions of the Architectural Association as a whole.

Podcasts

Podcasts

On the Steps of 36

Files on Air

On the Steps of 36

A Line Traced: Female Pioneers in the History of VR

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