A is for Architecture Podcast Charlotte Malterre-Barthes: Unmaking architecture.
In this new episode of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes spoke with me about her recent book, A Moratorium on New Construction, published by Sternberg Press in 2025 as part of their Critical Spatial Practices series.
If a book starts with, ‘To build is to destroy’, things are liable to get pretty exciting (for an architecture fan). As the bumf puts it – and our chat opens out - Charlotte’s provocation for a moratorium is in pursuit of a reimagined productive building culture: ‘To pause new construction—even if momentarily, creates a radical thinking framework for alternatives to the current regime of space production and its suspect growth imperative.’
Sound good?
Yes. It does.
Charlotte has a personal website, as well as space at EPFL. She’s on Instagram too.
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Music credits: Bruno Gillick