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Archispeak is one of architecture's longest-running podcasts — 380+ episodes of honest, unfiltered conversation about what it's actually like to work in the profession. Since 2012, architects Evan Troxel and Cormac Phalen have been exploring design, career, firm culture, tools, work/life balance, mentoring, generational differences, and job hunting — everything that comes with building a life in architecture.

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#172 - The Design of Art

Topic

Evan and Cormac discuss an episode of Netflix's docuseries Abstract: The Art of Design that focused on Olafur Eliasson's philosophy, process, and work, and relate that to what we do in architecture.

Links

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  1. Abstract: The Art of Design; "Olafur Eliasson – The Design of Art" (Netflix)

  2. Studio Olafur Eliasson

  3. Foster + Partners – Smithsonian Institute Courtyard

  4. Jean Nouvel – Louvre Abu Dhabi

  5. Steven Pressfield – The War of Art and Do The Work

  6. Seth Godin – We Are All Weird

  7. The Greatest American Hero (Wikipedia)

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