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243. Nicholas de Monchaux (Originally aired 1/3/24)
Jun 23, 2026
Unknown duration
30. Abbott Miller (Originally aired 5/31/17)
Jun 10, 2026
58m 31s
290. Giorgia Lupi
May 27, 2026
1h 00m 26s
289. Marco Ferrari
May 12, 2026
1h 04m 23s
288. Alan Ricks & Sierra Bainbridge
Apr 29, 2026
1h 01m 19s
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() 243. Nicholas de Monchaux (Originally aired 1/3/24) | We're taking the summer off and rebroadcasting some of our favorite episodes in the archives over the next few months. Today we're rebroadcasting our 2024 episode with Nicholas de Monchaux, who was recently appointed the new dean at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. We'll be back with new episodes in September! — Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect, designer, and author. He is currently Professor and Head of Architecture at MIT. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo and Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities. Until 2020, he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Chair in New Media at UC Berkeley. In this conversation, Jarrett and Nicholas talk about reframing our definitions of design, what a contemporary architecture education could look like, and building a multidisciplinary practice. Links from this episode can be found at: https://scratchingthesurface.fm/243-nicholas-de-monchaux — We're continuing to publish new content on our Substack. Paid subscribers get bonus interviews every month. Sign up and support the show here: surfacepodcast.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | ![]() 30. Abbott Miller (Originally aired 5/31/17)✨ | designcritical theory+3 | Abbott Miller | PentagramDesign and Content | — | Abbott MillerPentagram+5 | — | 58m 31s | |
| 5/27/26 | ![]() 290. Giorgia Lupi✨ | data visualizationstorytelling+3 | Giorgia Lupi | PentagramGoogle+9 | — | information designdata storytelling+5 | — | 1h 00m 26s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() 289. Marco Ferrari✨ | visual designdata visualization+4 | Marco Ferrari | Studio FolderDesign Academy Eindhoven | — | Marco FerrariStudio Folder+5 | — | 1h 04m 23s | |
| 4/29/26 | ![]() 288. Alan Ricks & Sierra Bainbridge✨ | architecturenon-profit+4 | Alan RicksSierra Bainbridge | Model of Architecture Serving SocietySeeking Abundance: Design, Ecology, and a Flourishing Planet | — | architectureMASS+5 | — | 1h 01m 19s | |
| 4/15/26 | ![]() 287. Jeremy Till & Tatjana Schneider✨ | architectureclimate crisis+4 | Jeremy TillTatjana Schneider | MouldCentral Saint Martins+2 | Technical University Braunschweig | architectureclimate+5 | — | 57m 23s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() 286. Heidi Korsavong & Benjamin Critton✨ | artdesign+4 | Heidi KorsavongBenjamin Critton | Marta | Los Angeles | Martaart gallery+7 | — | 1h 11m 15s | |
| 3/18/26 | ![]() 285. Giovanna Borasi✨ | architecturecuration+3 | Giovanna Borasi | Canadian Centre for Architecture | — | architecturecurator+4 | — | 1h 01m 44s | |
| 3/4/26 | ![]() 284. Walter Hood✨ | landscape architectureurbanism+3 | Walter Hood | Hood Design StudioUniversity of California, Berkeley+3 | — | landscape architectureurban design+3 | — | 1h 01m 12s | |
| 2/18/26 | ![]() 283. Oliver Munday✨ | graphic designfatherhood+3 | Oliver Munday | DoubledayKnopf+3 | — | graphic designerwriter+3 | — | 1h 03m 25s | |
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| 2/4/26 | ![]() 282. Sonja Stummerer & Martin Hablesreiter✨ | food designart+3 | Sonja StummererMartin Hablesreiter | Honey & BunnyFood Design+2 | — | food designart+5 | — | 1h 02m 04s | |
| 1/21/26 | ![]() 281. Otto von Busch✨ | designeducation+4 | Otto von Busch | Parsons School of DesignThe Design Comedy+1 | — | designeducation+5 | — | 59m 43s | |
| 1/7/26 | ![]() 280. Sam Valenti✨ | musicdesign+4 | Sam Valenti IV | Ghostly InternationalWe’ll Never Stop Living This Way: A Ghostly International Catalogue | — | Ghostly InternationalSam Valenti IV+5 | — | 54m 04s | |
| 12/10/25 | ![]() 279. Thomas Weaver✨ | architecturewriting+3 | Thomas Weaver | Park BooksPrinceton University+4 | — | architecturewriting+5 | — | 1h 04m 03s | |
| 11/26/25 | ![]() 278. Carlo Ratti✨ | architectureintelligences+4 | Carlo Ratti | MITVenice Biennale of Architecture+3 | — | Carlo Rattiarchitecture+6 | — | 42m 45s | |
| 11/12/25 | ![]() 277. Maggie Gram | Maggie Gram is a writer, cultural historian, and designer. She’s the author of the new book, The Invention of Design, and her writing as appeared in n+1 and The New York Times. She also leads an experience design team at Google in New York. In this conversation, Jarrett and Maggie talk about how she wrote her book, the evolution of how we talk about design, design’s relationship to power, and why we need new ways to think about what design can do today. Links from this episode are available at www.scratchingthesurface.fm/277-maggie-gram. — Help support the show by joining our Substack: surfacepodcast.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 10/29/25 | ![]() 276. Amale Andraos & Dan Wood | Amale Andraos and Dan Wood are the founders of WORKac, an architecture office working across a range of scales with an emphasis on public, cultural, or civic projects all around the world. Amale is also professor at Columbia GSAPP, where she also served as dean from 2014-2021, and Dan has taught most recently at Columbia and Yale. They’ve also published a series of books including 49 Cities, Above the Pavement, the Farm, We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge, and their new monograph, Buildings for People and Plants. In this conversation, Amale and Dan talk with Jarrett about the threads that connect their body of work, the role of publishing in the studio, and why they think of their work as “pop”. Links from this episode are available at www.scratchingthesurface.fm/276-amale-andraos-dan-wood. — Help support the show by joining our Substack: surfacepodcast.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 10/15/25 | ![]() 275. David Godshall & Kasey Toomey | David Godshall and Kasey Toomey are partners at Terremoto, a landscape architecture design studio based in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Founded by Godshall and Alain Peauroi, Terremoto creates gardens that blend material exploration and conceptual ideas that seek to do right by the land while also acknowledging the laborer, the wildlife, and Indigenous communities on whose land they now live and work. In this conversation, Jarrett talks with David and Kasey about the philosophy of garden design, garden as a verb, their work in labor activism, and why garden design might be a model for the future of design practice. Links from this episode are available at www.scratchingthesurface.fm/275-david-godshall-kasey-toomey. — Help support the show by joining our Substack: surfacepodcast.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | ![]() 274. Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby | Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby use design as a medium to interrogate our relationship to reality. They are the authors of multiple books, including 2013’s Speculative Everything and 2025’s Not Here, Not Now. Until recently, they were professors of Design and Social Inquiry at The New School where they ran the Design Realities Lab. In this conversation, Jarrett talks with Dunne and Raby about how their new book expands upon and responds to their previous work, how their practice has evolved over the last ten years, and why they don’t like calling themselves speculative designers. Links from this episode are available at www.scratchingthesurface.fm/274-anthony-dunne-fiona-raby — Help support the show by joining our Substack: surfacepodcast.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 9/17/25 | ![]() 273. Nick Foster | Nick Foster is a futures designer and author of the new book Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think About The Future. Trained as an industrial designer, he has spent his career exploring the future for a range of companies, most recently as the Head of Design at Google X, where he led a team of designers, researchers, and prototypers in the company’s “moonshot factory.” In this conversation, Jarrett and Nick talk about where our images of the future come from, design’s role in thinking about the future, and why we need to find new ways to talk about the futures we want. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/273-nick-foster — Join our Substack for more content each month and to help support the show! surfacepodcast.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 9/3/25 | ![]() 272. Joel Towers | Joel Towers is the president of The New School in New York City. Trained as an architect, President Towers joined the school in 2004, first as a faculty member and director of Sustainable Design and Urban Ecology and most recently as executive dean of Parsons School of Design from 2009 to 2019. In this conversation, Jarrett and President Towers talk about the state of higher education, the shifting nature of design education, and how studying architecture in the late eighties shaped the work he does today. Links from this episode can be found at scratchingthesurface.fm/272-joel-towers — Join our Substack for more content each month and to help support the show! surfacepodcast.substack.com | — | ||||||
| 8/13/25 | ![]() 211. Lydia Kallipoliti (Originally aired 3/30/22) | Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer, and scholar. She is an assistant professor at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, the author of the book The Architecture of Closed Worlds and is the co-curator of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale. In this conversation, Jarrett and Lydia talk about being an architect who doesn’t build, Lydia’s concept of ‘immersive scholarship’, and alternative forms of disseminating research. This episode originally aired 3/30/22. | — | ||||||
| 7/30/25 | ![]() 194. Zak Kyes (Originally aired 8/4/21) | Zak Kyes is the creative director and founder of Zak Group where he leads projects for cultural and commercial clients across scales and mediums. From 2006 to 2016, he was the art director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and in 2007 he curated with Mark Owens Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design. In this episode, Jarrett and Zak talk about design as a type of cultural production, what he learned from working with architects, and rethinking our definitions of culture. This episode originally aired August 4, 2021. | — | ||||||
| 7/16/25 | ![]() 226. Katherine McCoy (Originally aired 2/1/23) | Katherine McCoy is a graphic designer and educator. From 1971 to 1995, she was the co-artist-in-residence with Michael McCoy of the pioneering design department at the Cranbook Academy of Art. With Mike, she is the co-author of Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse and continued to teach at a variety of schools around the world. In this conversation, Katherine and Jarrett talk about the state of graphic design in the seventies, learning how to teach design, and the influence of Dutch design on Cranbrook's curriculum. This episode originally aired on February 1, 2023. | — | ||||||
| 7/2/25 | ![]() 241. Adrian Lahoud (Originally aired 12/6/23) | Adrian Lahoud is an architect, urban designer, researcher, and the dean of the School of Architecture at the Royal College of Art. Previously he was director of the MA program at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths and a research fellow at Forensic Architecture. In this conversation, Jarrett and Adrian talk about the intersection of decolonization and decarbonization, architecture as a site for posing problems, and fostering an interdisciplinary research culture. This episode originally aired on December 6, 2023. | — | ||||||
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