Negroni Talks #55 - Architecture As Algorithm: The Demise of Design?
Architecture As Algorithm: The Demise of Design?As AI storms the gates of the architectural profession, building designers like many other creatives are rightfully asking: “are we already halfway to b...
17 Okt 20251h 29min
Negroni Talks #S19 - Keepin’ It Up: What Does It Actually Mean For A Building To Perform?
The building industry has a huge impact in the context of carbon emissions, energy consumption and climate change. Whilst ‘adaptive reuse’ has become a buzzword with louder calls for upgrading, renova...
30 Sep 202548min
Negroni Talks #54 - HOME ECONOMICS: Short Term Gain or Longer Term Pain?
HOME ECONOMICS: Short Term Gain or Longer Term Pain?The City has always maintained a duality as a permanent place of impermanence, with the perpetual comings and goings of buildings, people and concer...
28 Aug 20251h 39min
Negroni Talks #S18 - Quality Streets: How To Ensure That Ramsgate’s Future Is Sweet?
Negroni Talks #S18 - Quality Streets: How To Ensure That Ramsgate’s Future Is Sweet? Ramsgate is a place on the edge, full of potential and opportunity, but does this really show up in terms of the ch...
16 Jul 20251h 30min
Negroni Talks #53 - Mean-while…. cyclical change or cynical claims in the city?
The city continually changes despite its perceived permanence as a place; centuries of temporary inhabitation by all kinds of people passing through a built environment seemingly fixed, yet in continu...
30 Apr 20251h 25min
Negroni Talks #52 - “Kiss My Kl-arse” : how influential is CLASS in the creation our built environment?
As Robert Hughes stated in The Shock Of The New, “In the C19th, Architecture built palaces for the rich, villas for the upper bourgoise, and ceremonial structures for the state.” and “the poor, the in...
17 Mar 20251h 38min
Negroni Talks #51 - New Towns: (Any) New Ideas?
[NOTE: In the opening 18 minutes the recording contains background noise due to technical issues on the night]New Towns: (Any) New Ideas?The New Town is now old - about a hundred years old. From their...
20 Feb 20251h 42min
Negroni Talks #50 - IMBYISM: Objection! Overruled?
Around the world tensions often surround the arrival of a new building development, which challenges the status quo and has implications for local people, buildings and the natural environment alike. ...
15 Nov 20241h 42min
