La casa de la casa

The podcast of La Casa de la Arquitectura (National Museum of Architecture). A project by Marina Povedano, Núria Moliner, HYPER STUDIO and Casa Antillón.

La casa de la casa (The house of the house) is a house unfolded, open, naked, waiting to be inhabited. A blank sheet of paper where we will talk about architecture, but also listen to it. An undefined and open paper house, where different voices will discuss architecture and much more, sharing ideas about how architecture impacts on society, culture and our everyday environment.

We will have participants and themes that go far beyond architecture, that bring it closer to the everyday and that challenge our own habits and customs. La Casa de La Casa is the common place for architecture lovers, but also the provocative device that refers to the social and cultural dimensions of the discipline.

La Casa de La Casa is a cycle of 8 videopodcasts organised into 4 themes: street, device, fiction and field. The 4 sections respond to fields tangential to architecture, but which the emergencies of the present and the speed of technologies make it necessary to put on the table to discuss them from the architectural language.

For this reason, the 8 videopodcasts will feature participants from the world of art, popular culture, literature and film, as well as architecture. Spheres to which architecture is indebted, as a builder of the spaces in which they develop.

→ All episodes can be viewed and listened to on the House of Architecture channels on YouTube, Spotify and more.

→ EP1: DEVICE with Chenta Tsai, Johanna Jaskowska and Diego Iglesias.

In this first episode of La Casa de la Casa we talk about DEVICE. We ask ourselves to what extent new technologies have modified our physical world. We discuss digital space as public space. We question whether there is such a difference between the virtual and the physical. And we talk with those who work precisely in this limbo to understand the limits and capacities that are opening up not only for the discipline, but also for the users.

Published on 24/10/2024. View in: Spotify / YouTube

→ EP2: DEVICE with Blanca Cortés, Javier Sainz de los Terreros and Diego Iglesias.

In this second episode of La Casa de la Casa we continue to delve into the concept of DEVICE. We ask ourselves to what extent social networks influence physical spaces. We talk about the similarities between Rubens' workshop and Artificial Intelligence. And we place ourselves between technoutopianism and neo-luddism.

Published on 31/10/2024. Watch on Spotify / YouTube

→ EP3: FICTIONS with Alba Carballal, Eduardo Mediero (HANGHAR) and Ismael López.

In this episode we talk about FICTIONS with the writer Alba Carballal and the architect founder of HANGHAR Edurdo Mediero, moderated by Ismael López (Casa Antillón). We talk about dreams, libraries, films and dogs. We visit the contemporary scenographies that cinema, visual arts and poetry have imagined. We will ask ourselves how much of a premonitory and posthumous aspect the fictions we share have, but also what kind of satisfaction the disruptive nature of their proposals gives us. Fiction has deployed proposals as dreamlike as they are optimistic, somewhere between the impossible and the vulgar, capable of making us dream of a better world from the most carnal mundanity.

Published on 14/11/2024. Watch on Spotify / YouTube

→ EP4: FICTIONS with Julia Tarnawski, Elena Rocabert and Emmanuel Álvarez.

In this episode we talk about FICTIONS with TEST BCN's founding architect Julia Tarnawski and architect and art director Elena Rocabert, moderated by Emmanuel Álvarez (Casa Antillón). We will visit the contemporary scenographies that cinema, visual arts and poetry have imagined. We will ask ourselves how much premonitory and posthumous are the fictions we share, but also what kind of satisfaction we derive from the disruptive nature of their proposals. Fiction has deployed proposals as dreamlike as they are optimistic, somewhere between the impossible and the vulgar, capable of making us dream of a better world from the most carnal mundanity.

Published on 21/11/2024. Watch in Spotify / YouTube

→ EP5: STREET with Carlota Bruna, Erik Harley and Núria Moliner.

In this episode we talk about STREET with environmental activist and content creator Carlota Bruna and urban studies expert and creator of Pormishuevism Erik Harley, moderated by Núria Moliner. The city is approached as a space in dispute: from the production of space and its use to the city as a space of all and for all. We make the hegemonic visible, but also the forgotten mechanisms that make the city a cog in our mode of production. We will talk about the street as an extension of the house, about favourite cities, about other species with which we coexist and about optimism in the era of eco-anxiety.

Published on 28/11/2024. Watch on Spotify / YouTube

→ EP6: STREET with Izaskun Chinchilla, Verónica Sánchez (n'UNDO) and Núria Moliner.

In this episode we talk about STREET with the architect and teacher Izaskun Chinchilla and the architect, expert in emergency architecture and founder of n'UNDO Verónica Sánchez, moderated by Núria Moliner. We addressed the city as an extension of the home: gender perspective, accessibility, safety, circularity, coexistence between species and upbringing. We make visible what works, but also what we need to rethink. We talked about architecture as shelter, emergency and the street as a space that connects us.

Published on 5/12/2024. Watch on Spotify / YouTube

→ EP7: CAMPO with Rosa Cerarols (Konvent), Aleix Turón (Cala Vento) and Marina Povedano.

In this episode we talk about CAMPO with Konvent founder Rosa Cerarols and Cala Vento singer Aleix Turón, moderated by Marina Povedano. We ask ourselves what are the limits and conditions that define our territory. We talked about migratory movements, new ruralities, opportunities and the reality of the countryside. We talk about ‘going back’, the representation of the rural in contemporary culture and the need - or not - for architecture in these environments.

Published on 12/12/2024. Watch on Spotify / YouTube

→ EP8: CAMPO with Elisa Lagrúa (Inland), Millanes Rivas and Marina Povedano.

In this episode we talk about CAMPO with the coordinator of Inland - Campo a Dentro Elisa Lagrúa and the writer Millanes Rivas, moderated by Marina Povedano. We will ask ourselves what are the limits and conditions that define our territory. We will talk about migratory movements as a result of the economic crises and the real estate bubble as a prelude to the emptying of Spain, the rise of tourism and pollution. We will analyse the blurred border between the rural and the urban in search of narratives of escape and negation, but also as an oasis of a carefree, regionalist and experimental architecture.

Published on 19/12/2024. Watch on Spotify / YouTube

An unfolded house

This house is an artefact. Lying down, distorted and unfolded, it seems to come from the archetypal form that the hut has always had. Here, the house has a specific function: to shelter a videopodcast project for several months. A task that is resolved by means of a broken plane which through its windows lets us see the city behind it, Madrid. House and city, two scales that architecture faces, have a modest relationship here.

And from one of these windows, in a play of reflexive orientation, a curve breaks with the form, creating a table and tensing the space. And from another window, this time digital, clouds appear drawn in the sky. One window is a circle, another a square, and a third is formed by their conjunction. Below, for the mice, or the ants, or any cable, another little window makes its appearance.

Structurally, the house is a self-supporting plane created with a grid of 25x25mm square profiles of off-white lacquered steel on which a 3mm thick sheet of steel rests, flying lightly all around. This situation between the structure and the folded sheet metal gives the house a paper-like appearance. And when it is surrounded, or flown over - for the birds' enjoyment - these surfaces become fine white abstract lines.