'Terra Incognita' 1/3, Khizr Studio Podcast Ep.11 w/ Architectural Historian, Dr Christopher Cowell

In this episode Dr Christopher Cowell - lecturer and architectural historian at London South Bank University - joins me for a brilliantly layered conversation on world-building, stories of empire, identity and place, and the dance between locality and globality. This episode is a deep dive into how power gets built into the bones of our cities as well as our imaginations.

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Links:
Chris' PhD Abstract - https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/...
Army Architects - https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/ep...

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Hello
0:16 - Introduction to Chris, A Romanticisation of History
2:03 - World Building
3:25 - Chris' New Book, Colonialism & Capitalism, Finding an 'Interrogator' for a Project
8:46 - Finding the Right Story to Tell, Multidisciplinary-ness When Analysing History, The French Revolution
11:30 - Hearing, Smelling, and Seeing Your Work, The Sound of Hong Kong, The British Colonisation of India
15:49 - A Method Issue, The Taxonomy of Colonial Office Records, World-Building From Necessity
17:56 - What drew Chris to Hong Kong?, The Handover of Hong Kong to China, Management Processes

The Khizr Studio Podcast is a series of conversations aimed to be accessible by architects and non-architects alike, with the purpose of widening our understanding of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism - and the societal, political, and economic forces that influence their design.