Todd Reisz, architect and writer is our latest podcast guest. Reisz has served as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor in Design at Yale School of Architecture and as a guest faculty member at Harvard Graduate School of Design. From 2012 to 2017, he was the Rose Visiting Assistant Professor in Urban Studies at Yale.   At OMA, Reisz led the office’s first entry at the Venice Architecture Biennial (2006) and edited Al Manakh (2007) and Al Manakh 2: Gulf Continued (2010), two definitive explorations of Arab cities in the Gulf region. His work has been featured in several Venice Architecture Biennials, the Istanbul Design Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 13, and publications such as the Guardian, Perspecta, Log, Jadaliyya, Architectural Design, and Artforum. we chatted with Todd hot off the release of the essential read: Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai. we talk about Todd's path to architecture, how he ended up first coming to dubai while at OMA/AMO working on the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennial and Al Manakh publications, and how it all culminated in the publication of Showpiece City. we explore how Todd's relationship with and perspective on dubai has evolved over the last 15 years. twitter.com/toddreisz www.toddreisz.com Showpiece City - How Architecture Made Dubai www.dxbkids.film kickstarter.com/projects/shehab/dxb-kids