128 Flipping the Future of Architecture

Image: UXO Architects

A few weeks ago I retweeted an article about a nightmarish Victorian house flip that touched off a minor architectural tweet storm. That prompted an email from James Heard and Ashton Hamm of UXO Architects who had some opinions about this flip and about architecture and city design in general. So I asked them to join us on the podcast. During the conversation Ashton and James mention:

• The economics of house flipping
• Architects in the gig economy
• Worker cooperatives
• Financial barriers to becoming an architect
• The Architecture Lobby
• Architecture Lobby Manifesto
• Housing affordability
• Last House on Mulholland Drive communal living proposal
• Codes
• Why do all those boxy new buildings look the same?
• Aesthetics in architecture
• Neutra VDL house

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