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Tête-à-Tête is a student-produced podcast series that strives to highlight architectural discourse both within Rice Architecture and the global architecture community. Each episode is intended to keep architecture enthusiasts, professionals, academics, and students informed of current happenings.The podcast team works to foster and curate exciting conversations with a range of guests including lecturers, faculty members, alumni, students and professionals. Don’t forget to subscribe to keep up with new releases!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Architects and designers make their methods legible here, connecting fabrication, material choices, teaching, and public responsibility.
Lindsay Chambers keeps asking architects and designers to connect formal decisions with the conditions that produce them. Rice Architecture Tete-a-Tete uses extended interviews to move from digital fabrication and material research toward questions of teaching, professional…
A million unique panels? The architect wants the fabricator's limits, and your sketchbook might too.
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New Affiliates is presented as a practice shaped by reuse, teaching, and the challenge of representing work that can take many forms.
Lindsay Chambers guides a conversation with Evie Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kold of New Affiliates, the New York-based practice formed in 2016.
A patient architecture conversation about monuments, collaboration, and invention within constraints.
Rice Architecture's TetaTet follows Eric Howler, co-founding principal of Howler & Yoon and an associate professor and thesis coordinator at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, as he reflects on monuments, collaboration, and the role of digital processes in practice.
A careful look at digital tools, tectonics, and long architectural thinking.
Rice Architecture Tete-a-Tete gives Viola Ago room to build a careful case for a healthier feedback loop between architecture and digital technology, one where neither side simply serves the other.
A patient talk about housing bias, architecture school, and a path from music to film.
Rice Architecture Tete-a-Tete gives Giorgio Angelini room to trace a route from touring musician to Rice architecture student to filmmaker, and the conversation is strongest when that path is tied to housing as a broader argument.
Research, fabrication, and scale define Barkow Leibinger's method.
Frank Barkow's conversation with Lindsay Chambers frames architecture as a research-based practice that values process as much as finished form.
Architecture talk from inside the studio.
Community radio with a wide front door.
Design conversations with cultural consequence.
Portrait craft from inside the working week.
Architecture as argument, archive, and lived space.
Architecture, patiently thought through aloud.
New Affiliates sidesteps the sustainable-office tag.
Eric Howler treats constraints as part of the design, not as obstacles to get around.
Viola Ago starts with artifacts.
Giorgio Angelini talks about architecture, filmmaking, and what people owe each other.
Research starts with tools.
Host Rose Wilkowski introduces an interview with the founders of architecture firm Dust, discussing their formation and recent award.
A conversation about an exhibition exploring the concept of beds in relation to health, technology, and urban space in New Orleans.
An interview with architect Tom Emerson discussing current projects, materiality, and architecture's relationship to nature.
An interview with architect Peggy Diemer discussing the separation of building process from final product and workers' rights in architecture.