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Superurbanism is a series of conversations with the most interesting people working in the field of architecture today: architects, curators, authors, designers. Host Tim Abrahams explores both the details of their work and their bigger vision.

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  • 24 episodes
  • fortnightly
  • Avg 36 min
  • English

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  • S2 · E32
    Nov 6, 2025 · 31 min

    S2 EP32 — David Adjaye

    With controversy lingering over his personal conduct, three major new museums designed by David Adjaye open this month. Tim Abrahams goes beyond the scandal to explore his commitment to Africa’s cultural and social transformation.

  • S2 · E31
    Oct 23, 2025 · 30 min

    News Review — October 2025

    The Superurbanism News Review is back again! Tim sits down with our good friend Vicky Richardson, former Architecture Curator at the Royal Academy to discuss the latest events in the architecture world and reaction to them. Award season is upon us in the United Kingdom and we talk through the early responses to Witherford Watson Mann’s victory in the Stirling Prize and much more.

  • S2 · E30
    Oct 20, 2025 · 24 min

    S2 EP 30 — Olafur Eliasson

    In the early 21st century, Olafur Eliasson helped define a new era of public art with works that took on nature for scale. Tim Abrahams met him at the new Oxford North development and asked him what he makes of his metier as a public artist in a new era when who the public might be is less clear and the idea of nature is unstable.

  • S2 · E29
    Oct 2, 2025 · 26 min

    S2 EP 29 — Asif Khan

    Tim heads out to Almaty in Kazakhstan to talk to Asif Khan about his work on the Tselinny; an incredibly painstaking transformation of a 1964 Soviet cinema into an arts centre, which he undertook with Kazakh wife the architect Zaure Aitayeva.

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