所建所闻

所建所闻 treats architecture as something learned on foot. Host 璟璐 brings friends to the table, sometimes one and sometimes four, and the talk works outward from a specific place: a street, a meal, a shop that is suddenly gone. It runs in Chinese, loose and unhurried, with English words like tricky, on site and appreciate dropped in mid-sentence. Several episode titles carry tags such as Builder, Creator, Observer and Flaneur. '63: Builder | 50个晴天造一个家，童寯的建筑、人格和选择' comes out of a visit to 童寯's former residence in Nanjing, recorded as a crossover with another podcast, 人间居住指南. The conversation stays for a while on a new exhibition hall beside the house that has almost no facade, only interior, lit through north-facing skylights. An older couple who wandered in and started praising the light becomes a small case for good design reaching the public. Then comes the house's own story, as the audio guide tells it: three drawings, one of them devoted to doors and windows, and fifty sunny days agreed with the builder. In '60: Flaneur | 扬州漫谈：一方水土，一方天地', 松凯, a Yangzhou local, supplies the route, and HB and 璟璐 report back. The sharpest exchange sets a renewal project's quiet dessert and milk-tea shops against a worn jiaomian shop full of locals, and asks why new places cannot carry over the habits people already have. Someone pushes back that change tends to come in stages. '58: Observer | 罗曼蒂克消亡史：那些关掉的街边小店' starts from the closing, and later the reopening, of Bread Etc in Shanghai, then follows the money. Rents come up, a fifteen-yuan coffee-and-bread breakfast deal is read as a bad omen, and delivery-app coupons that roughly halve a meal's price show why a shopfront cannot win on price. It ends as a plain request to spend money at small local shops. Two episodes show how far the range stretches. In '62: Creator | 不上班之后，我开始了一段悠长假期', a dry aside that many architects have little left to build leads into a conversation with 阿文, four months out of work, that takes in unemployment support in France and Shanghai. '61: Creator | 2025 的尾声' is a year-end gathering of five that drifts from travel to cooking for one, and along the way the host notes that the show began on 1 January 2019. 'Episode 19: 书店：从「书的容器」到「人的容器」' was recorded over drinks in a friend's studio apartment and picks at a bookstore's reading nooks, which are set into the thickness of the shelving and so tight that reader and passer-by both feel in the way. For a first listen, the Yangzhou episode shows the method most plainly, and the small-shops episode shows where it tends to lead, which is often economics. Throughout, the mood is warm toward ordinary places, dry about anything overpackaged, and now and then openly excited when a detail lands.