A Book I Love
Each episode of A Book I Love is a conversation around a book that is special to one of the speakers. It is a "companion text", in the words of Sara Ahmed, that in some way or another intersects with an idea of architecture. The podcast was created collaboratively with the editorial team of womenwritingarchitecture.org, Helen Thomas and Emilie Appercé together with Geraldine Tedder, Curator of the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) exhibitions at the ETH Zürich.
Latest episodes
Episode 7: Slowly, a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman by Judy Grahn, chosen by Geraldine Tedder
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30m
33s
In August 2023, we met in Ennenda and you will hear some familiar voices of A-B-I-L, joined by the German artist Gritli Faulhaber.
The conversation deals with the challenging but fruitful issue of how poetry can be writing about architecture, and this is addressed in several ways as we talk about the poem Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman by poet and activist, Judy Grahn.
With:
Tine Milz (theatre director), Geraldine Tedder (curator), Helen Thomas, (architect, writer, and publisher), Emilie Appercé (architect), Alicia Ayla Yerebakan (artist), Gritli Faulhaber (artist)
At:
Ennenda, Glarus
Episode 6: King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes, chosen by Carmen Van Pamel
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24m
11s
We recorded the 6th episode of A Book I Love at the After 8 Books in Paris. This wonderful bookshop and publisher also runs an intense programme of events. On 16 February, we sneaked in before opening hours to hold our incidental conversation about Virginie Despentes’ provocative book, King Kong Theory.
With:
Helen Thomas, (architect, writer, and publisher), Emilie Appercé (architect), Alicia Ayla Yerebakan (artist, Madame ETH), Carmen Van Pamel (writer, architect)
Where:
in the bookshop After 8 Books, 7 Rue Jarry, in Paris
Episode 5: Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chosen by Nana Biamah-Ofosu and Laura Evans
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53m
18s
Résumé
For this first international encounter, A-B-I-L voices, Geraldine, Madame ETH, the WWA editorial team invited Nana Biamah-Ofosu and Laura Evans to discuss around the book Purple Hibiscus, how fiction can be a place that gives a tool, a language, a way of thinking to pose the ideas architectural education might not challenge.
With:
Geraldine Tedder (curator), Helen Thomas, (architect, writer, and publisher), Emilie Appercé (architect), Alicia Ayla Yerebakan (artist, Madame ETH), Nana Biamah-Ofosu (architect), Laura Evans (architect)
Where:
in the Foyer of the Barbican in London, in Zürich, in Lucerne