The Architectural Review Podcast extends the conversation outside the pages of the print magazine, with fearless storytelling, independent critical voices and thought-provoking architecture from around the world since 1896. The AR Bookshelf series invites the most interesting and influential names in architecture to put books on an imaginary bookshelf and tell us their story, and AR Reads brings you a piece from our vast archive, while AR Ecologies explores the tension between architecture and ecology, weaving curious and critical voices together to debunk the most important questions of...
In this episode, architect, artist and critical urban theorist Dele Adeyemo takes us to the modernist Meridian Hotel in Tema New Town in Ghana. The 1975 song Meridian by Ghanaian group Wulomei provides evidence of its former grandeur and the ambition of post-independence Ghana – evidence that...
Published 08/23/24
In this episode, architectural historian, writer and educator Huda Tayob takes us to the now destroyed Sophiatown in Johannesburg, South Africa, through recordings of the neighbourhood found in the 1959 film Come Back Africa.
This AR Bookshelf episode is part of a collaboration between The...
Published 08/23/24