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Lexus x MISCHIEF's Viral Collab, Trump's Arch & a Deep Dive on AI News w/Casey Rehm | MXD News Ep.39

This week we start with the viral Lexus x MSCHF collaboration — two "twisted" concept cars that spark a bigger conversation about car-deformation art history, brand colla

Universities Ban Tech, Space Force's Sci-Fi Uniforms & is Nike Collapsing? | MXD News Podcast

This week we open with the University of Chicago pulling laptops and phones from its core social science classrooms — and New York City banning AI in elementary and middl

First look inside the George Lucas Museum, 9/11 Toxic Air Cover-Up & Brad Pitt's Architecture Movie

This week we get our first real look inside MAD Architects' long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, opening September 22nd in LA after a wild history that started in

Academia in Crisis, AI "Takeover" Fears & the Death of the Starchitect

We start with the shakeup happening across higher education — starting with The New School's mass faculty cuts and what it says about the future of architecture and desig

The Drawings We Make for Ourselves | Narrative, Identity & Storytelling in Architecture

What stories do architects tell themselves—and how do those stories shape the work they create?This week on Mixed Signals, the MXD crew is joined by Kristen Mimms Scavnic

Ep. 34 Image and Storytelling in Architecture with Dr Rebecca McConnell.

The MXD crew welcomes Dr. Rebecca McConnell to the podcast! We discuss the evolving role of the rendering in Architecture in light of new Artificial Intelligence image ge

Ep. 33 Drawing New Worlds; with Gary Polk!

The MXD crew talks with Gary Polk (BIG, Penn, Pratt) to break down the boundaries of Architectural representation and drawing.We start by diving into previous year's Arch

Ep. 32 Designing With Models! & Mysterious Architectural Objects with Ryosuke Imaeda!

The MXD crew welcomes Ryosuke Imaeda to discuss models, materiality, craft, and mysterious architectural objects! We start off the episode with a model-focused edition of

Ep. 31 Can we talk about Ye? And Fluffy Architecture with Brendan Ho!

The MXD crew welcomes Brendan Ho from Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design to the studio. We talk about the artist formerly known as K

Ep. 30 Artificial Intelligence, War, and Architecture with AI Expert: Casey Rehm!

The MXD crew is joined by Casey Rehm, Coordinator of the Masters of Science in Architectural Intelligence program at SciArc (Southern California Institute of Architecture

Ep. 29 Fashion Forward Design and Recycled Architecture! with Andy Bako of University of Texas Austin!

Joined by Architect and educator Andy Bako, the MXD crew unpack the controversy surrounding the accessibility failures of the Hunter’s Point Library by Steven Holl—and th

Ep. 28 World-Making, Architecture, and Game Design in Marathon. With Art Director: Joseph Cross!

The MXD crew dives deep into the World-making, Architecture, and game design of the viral Bungie video game Marathon with special guest Joseph Cross, art director behind

Ep. 27 Architecture, Academia, and Practice. Talking "Puzzling Assemblies" with Oyler Wu

Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu of Oyler Wu Collaborative join Mixed Signals to unpack a design approach that refuses to sit in one camp. From line-based experiments to volumet

Ep. 26 The new "New Museum". Future Architectural Icon or OMA Flop?

OMA’s new museum expansion becomes the focal point of this episode of Mixed Signals—not just as a project, but as a case study in how architecture is judged today. The cr

Ep. 25 How to become an Online Architect, with Cathal Crumley!

In this episode of Mixed Signals, the crew is joined by Cathal Crumley for a wide-ranging conversation about the life of the "Online Architect", the rise of meme-based cr

Ep. 24 Eco-Blobs and Urban Piles: Is this the new International trend in Architecture?

In this episode of Mixed Signals, we debate architecture school culture, spring break studio work, and the strange world of contemporary design competitions. From excepti

Ep. 23 Realism and Fantasy in Photography and Architecture

This week we unpack the NOMA/NOMAS Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition to debates about realism, anti-renders, architectural photography, and why certain images

Ep. 22 Fiction, entertainment, and Architecture with Nate Hume and Liam Young.

Some architecture projects have nothing to do with buildings. What happens when architecture moves into film, video games, and speculative world-building? In this episod

Ep. 21 Video Games and why Architecture failed?

In this episode of Mixed Signals, we dive into architectural education, student work, and the future of the discipline with special guest Ryan Scavnicky. From a segment o

Ep. 20 Architecture's Labor Problem

What happens when the “dream office” looks a lot more like the rest of the industry? In this Mix Signals segment, we get into the uncomfortable reality behind architectur