Watch these 5 videos showing the very best of architectural public speaking
With so many dynamic and engaging public speakers out there architects are often overlooked – so we’ve compiled these five inspiring, engaging and captivating videos with help from the Architecture Foundation to show off the profession’s talents
#1 Sou Fujimoto
With a natural and supurb manner of storytelling, Sou Fujimoto delves further into the experimental process behind his domestic work in this talk as part of the Architecture Foundation’s Architecture on Stages series. He expands on the essential question of boundaries, addressing how to bridge the scale of the human body with that the chaotic metropolis by talking through some of his most acclaimed houses: Primitive Future House, House N and House NA, among others.
#2 Tatiana Bilbao
A leading voice of Mexican architecture, Tatiana Bilbao is the founder of multicultural and multidisciplinary Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. In her talks her passion about the power of architecture to transform is clear. Watch her animated Harvard Graduate School of Design talk ‘The House and the City’ where she conveys spaces and discusses how the silence and sound of monasteries can shape domestic space at the 2020 engadin art talks (E.A.T.) in Switzerland.
#3 Diébédo Francis Kéré
In this inspirational TEDTalk How to build with clay... and community, Diébédo Francis Kéré communicates his vision in a charming and charismatic way leaving his audience moved and invigorated.
#4 6a Architects
6a architects founders Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson are known for their unique and sensitive approach when it comes to architecture and they also give fantastic tours of their buildings. Watch Stephanie and Tom with RCA Talks: The Peter Dormer Lecture 2018 and Meet Tom Emerson from the Design District Architects series
#5 Norman Foster
Pitch battle: four star architects compete to design New York tower 425 Park Avenue. Here, Foster is the master of articulating his idea with clarity and confidence and wins the contest.