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Architecture talk from inside the studio.
The Second Studio Design and Architecture Show treats architecture as both a profession and a daily way of looking. Episodes move from Copenhagen and New York building reviews to AI tools, office workflows, client expectations, layoffs, and loose after-hours conversations.
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The Second Studio Design and Architecture Show treats architecture as a living profession, full of ideas, deadlines, clients, travel, tools, office culture, and arguments about what design work is worth. It is not polished into a distant academic voice. David Lee and Marina Bordereau-René speak as architects who are actively practicing, and that gives the show its grounded texture. Recent episodes shift between two-person studio conversations, after-hours recordings, city architecture reviews, and interviews with guests from design, software, and practice. The pacing is casual but the subject matter is serious. A trip to Copenhagen becomes a way to revisit OMA, Jørn Utzon, BIG, photographs, food memories, and the difficulty of remembering a journey months later. A New York City episode returns to buildings with changed eyes after years away. A conversation with Roderick Bates turns AI from an abstract industry argument into a practical discussion about Chaos, Enscape, workflow, and responsible implementation for architects. Ekaterina Solomina brings the Future London Academy into focus through leadership training, design education, and the business side of creative practice. Anthony Lainey’s episode lingers on monographs, office discourse, early design strategy, client conversations, and the deliberate refusal to rush toward a solution. The show also spends time on more uncomfortable professional realities. Layoffs, unionization challenges, fees, prospective clients, online plans, and the value of architectural services all appear as part of the same field of practice. That mix is the point. The Second Studio can be blunt, funny, distracted, technically specific, and reflective in the same episode. It makes room for the way architects actually talk before the polished project statement arrives. The result is useful for professionals, students, and design-curious listeners who want both the finished building and the working mess behind it.
Made for: For architects, designers, architecture students, and design-curious listeners who want candid practice talk alongside building criticism. It also suits people interested in how firms handle clients, tools, fees, workplace pressure, and early design decisions.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by pairing architecture criticism with the everyday mechanics of practice. It can move from Copenhagen buildings to AI workflows, client fees, layoffs, and studio banter without losing its architect perspective.
The Second Studio is an explicit podcast about design, architecture, and the everyday. Hosted by Architects David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet, the show covers a wide array of subjects with humor and honesty and features a variety of creative professionals in unscripted and more personal conversations.
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A grounded look at how an architecture office maps constraints before it invents a home.
Anthony Lainey's first monograph gives this episode its frame, but the conversation is really about practice: how Lainey LA turns early uncertainty into a working method.
A custom-home conversation about resilience, plans, and the people who have to make them work.
The Second Studio presents Erin Stetzer as a contractor whose path was shaped by patience, grit, and a steady effort to turn a business plan into something real.
An after-hours talk about candor, critique, and why architecture school keeps returning to the same questions.
David Lee and Marina Board Del Rone turn an after-hours conversation into a clear look at a familiar architectural tension: how to speak honestly about student work, critique, and design education without pretending the rules are easier than they are.
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.
Architecture practice, told from the working side.
Hosts David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet record a sleepy after-hours conversation, starting with banter about exhaustion and apple bananas.
Two architects discuss the movie theater experience and a recent TV show, inviting listener input on revitalizing theaters.
Architects David Lee and Marina Bordereau-René discuss their recent trip to New York City, reviewing both new and familiar buildings with fresh perspectives.
David Lee shares his three favorite buildings in a conversation with Marina Bordereau-Ney on the architecture podcast The Second Studio.
Erin Stetzer, founder of Erin Stetzer Homes in Houston, shares her journey from Division I basketball and finance to becoming a custom home general contractor.
Tyler Freres explains why a five-inch mass plywood panel can span 15 to 16 feet with less material than CLT.
David Lee and Marina Bordero-Ney of The Second Studio answer client questions about phasing renovations, additions, ADUs, pools, and other construction work.
The Second Studio hosts David Lee and Marina Bordero-René interview French-Mexican architect Ludwig Godefroy about moving from a 1,500-person Normandy village to Mexico City and founding Ludwig Godefroy Architecture.
The Second Studio’s David Lee interviews BuildNotesLA co-founder David Lee about using collective purchasing to reduce construction costs after wildfires in Altadena, Palisades, and Malibu.
Two architects host a casual after-hours show, discussing Easter and the concept of the immortal man, with sponsor segments for design software and an executive MBA program.
Hosts David Lee and Marina Bordereau-René interview Ekaterina Solomeina, co-founder of Future London Academy, about their unique program for experienced creative and design leaders combining MBA curriculum, coaching, and networking.
Two sick architects discuss recent layoffs at Snøhetta and BIG and broader workplace challenges in architecture.
Roderick Bates, head of product operations at Chaos, discusses AI in architecture, the company's philosophy on responsible AI implementation, and specific tools like Enscape for improving workflow efficiency.
Architects David Lee and Marina Bordeaux discuss the architecture of Copenhagen, including works by OMA, Jørn Utzon, and BIG, in part two of their trip recap.
The Second Studio interviews Anthony Lainey, founder of Laney LA, about the firm's first monograph covering nine homes.
Architects David Lee and Marina Bordereau-René discuss their recent trip to New York City, reviewing both familiar and new buildings with fresh perspectives.
Architects discuss the differences between buying pre-made plans online versus hiring an architect, demystifying services and fees.