Files on Air: Episode 7 – María Páez González, A Commanding Type?
From AirAA by Architectural Association School of Architecture
September 12, 2025 · 31 min · Season 3 · Episode 32
About this episode
María Páez González discusses her essay on the architectural implications of Silicon Valley's tech headquarters.
Files on Air is a podcast series in which contributors from AA Files read their work. In this episode, María Páez González – an architect, educator and Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Wien – reads her essay, ‘A Commanding Type? Lessons from Silicon Valley on the Architecture of Headquarters’, found in AA Files 81 . The essay is an architectural reading of Silicon Valley's tech headquarters and their embedded power dynamics. AA Files is the Architectural Association’s journal of record, which promotes original and engaging writing on architecture and its related fields. AirAA podcasts are recorded, mixed, edited and distributed from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, which is based in Bedford Square in London. Special thanks to Thomas Parkes for his contribution to the production of our episodes. The opinions expressed in AirAA podcasts are solely those of the participants and do not represent the opinions of the Architectural Association as a whole.
People in this episode
Guest: María Páez González
Topics covered
- architecture
- Silicon Valley
- power dynamics
- tech headquarters
- education
Keywords
- architecture
- Silicon Valley
- headquarters
- power dynamics
- AA Files
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: TU Wien, Architectural Association
Books & works: A Commanding Type? Lessons from Silicon Valley on the Architecture of Headquarters, AA Files 81
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