Scaffold

Michael Mack is the founder of London-based independent art and photography publishing house MACK. This conversation was recorded live at POST PRESS. More info and upcoming event tickets here.

Thanks to VELUX for supporting the podcast: velux.com/design

Books discussed:

W. G. Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction (Hamish Hamilton, 2003)
Le Corbusier, Aircraft (The Studio, 1935)
Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography, ed. Michael Mack (AA Publications, 1999)
Contemporary Architecture series, ed. Leonardo Benevolo (Cappelli, 1964–)
Manfredo Tafuri, Modern Architecture in Japan, ed. Mohsen Mostafavi (MACK, 2022)
Andrea Bagnato, Terra Infecta: Disease and the Italian Landscape (MACK Sightlines, 2026)
Kwan Queenie Li, Weeds: A Germinating Theory (MACK Sightlines, 2026)
Caruso St John, Collected Works: Volume 1 1990–2005 (MACK, 2022)
Takashi Homma, Tokyo Olympia (Nieves, 2023)
Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Holy Bible (MACK / Archive of Modern Conflict, 2013)
Collier Schorr, Jens F. (SteidlMACK, 2005)
Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game (1943; Winston translation, 1969)
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Jonathan Tuckey founded his design practice in 2000 having previously worked for David Chipperfield Architects and Fletcher Priest Architects. He has long been one of the UK's leading advocates for remodelling and radically transforming old buildings for modern uses.

The podcast is supported this week by VELUX and features a short pre-reel interview with Thomas Vonier — architect and former president of the International Union of Architects. th UIA is assembling in Barcelona this month for the World Congress of Architects, which VELUX are also supporting.

Jonathan's episode begins around the 12 minute mark.

Scaffold is an Architecture Foundation production, hosted by Matthew Blunderfield.
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Morgan Day is a writer based in Tucson Arizona who works across professional architecture writing and literary fiction. Her debut novel,The Oldest Bitch Alive, is out this month from Akoya Publishing in the UK, and Astra House in the US.

“We tend to think of our bodies as having barriers, but we’re actually very porous. We’re in this constant state of becoming and effecting our environment, and our environment is constantly affecting and infecting us. I wanted to put these ideas on the page in a story, not only through living creatures, but through built structures too.” –MD
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Morgan Day is a writer based in Tucson Arizona who works across professional architecture writing and literary fiction. Her debut novel,The Oldest Bitch Alive, is out this month from Akoya Publishing in the UK, and Astra House in the US.

“We tend to think of our bodies as having barriers, but we’re actually very porous. We’re in this constant state of becoming and effecting our environment, and our environment is constantly affecting and infecting us. I wanted to put these ideas on the page in a story, not only through living creatures, but through built structures too.” –MD

Image credit: “Ungodly” by Ambera Wellman, 2021.
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Part 2 of our interview with the Finnish artist and writer Jaakko Pallasvuo, author most recently of Amber (Rrose Editions, 2026) and Mouthing the Words (Khaos, 2025) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.