In the final episode of Dezeen and SketchIUp’s Climate Salon podcast series, architects discuss why sustainability should guide the aesthetics of a building, as opposed to the reverse. Swiss-Danish architect Kathrin Gimmel, MEE Studio founder Morten Emil Engel and SketchUp’s Andrew Corney explored how architects can help develop a new sense of what is beautiful and desirable based on what is most beneficial to the environment.

Dezeen and SketchUp’s Climate Salon podcast series continues with a conversation exploring community resilience and how design can be used to empower local groups. Hosted by Dezeen’s design and environment reporter Jennifer Hahn, the lineup of speakers includes Aris Komninos, architect, urban designer, and product manager at Trimble SketchUp, Sara Candiracci, associate director for cities and global leader for social value and equity at Arup, and Jake Stephenson-Bartley, design champion at The Glass House.  

Dezeen and SketchUp’s Climate Salon podcast series is back with a conversation exploring how collaboration and co-creation can be used as a tool for positive change. The panel discusses the need for working cohesively when it comes to tackling an issue as complex as the climate crisis. Hosted by Dezeen’s design and environment reporter Jennifer Hahn, the lineup of speakers includes German architect Anna Heringer, IF_DO co-founder Thomas Bryans and architectural designer and product specialist at SketchUp's Sumele Adelana.

Dezeen and SketchUp's Climate Salon podcast series continues with a conversation with Make Architects' Katy Ghahremani, architect Shawn Adams of Poor Collective and SketchUp's Sumele Adelana exploring the link between sustainability and inclusivity. The panel discusses the role of architects in facilitating a just transition to a green economy and creating universal access to sustainable, liable and climate-resilient buildings.

Dezeen and SketchUp's Climate Salon podcast series continues with a conversation with designer Sebastian Cox, landscape architect Rikke Juul Gram and SketchUp's Hugh McEvoy on regenerative design and how design and architecture can work in conjunction with nature to have a positive impact on the environment.

Dezeen and SketchUp's new Climate Salon podcast series kicks off with a conversation with designer Tom Dixon, architect Siv Helene Stangeland and SketchUp's Sumele Adelana on how the choices we make in designing our homes, both inside and out, can encourage us to build and live in a more sustainable way. 

Dezeen has teamed up with design software brand SketchUp to create a new podcast series exploring the role that architects and designers can play in tackling climate change. The six-part Dezeen x SketchUp Climate Salon podcast will bring together architects, designers and engineers to explore how to better collaborate across their respective disciplines to create a more cohesive response to climate change.

Pritzker prize-winning architect Jean-Philippe Vassal discusses the architectural approach of his studio in this special episode of Dezeen's Face to Face podcast. This bonus episode of Face to Face features a previously unheard interview. Conducted by Dezeen's acting US editor India Block, Vassal sat down with Block ahead of his lecture at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 2019. Vassal and his partner Anne Lacaton recently won the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize for their studio's body of work, which includes projects to refurbish rather than rebuild social housing.

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast continues with an interview with architectural designer John Pawson who recounts his brief spell as a Buddhist monk, how Calvin Klein changed his life and explains how minimalism helps calm his "untidy mind".

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with a conversation with British designer Tom Dixon, who describes how a motorcycle crash forced him to abandon a career as a bass guitarist. Face to Face is sponsored by Twinmotion.

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast carries on with an interview with fashion designer Roksanda Ilinčić who describes how she learned about dressmaking by slicing up her mother's designer outfits. 

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with an interview with British architect David Chipperfield who describes growing up on a farm, struggling at school, how Zaha Hadid saved him from failing his architecture diploma – and why he still suffers from imposter syndrome.

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with a conversation with Dutch industrial designer Hella Jongerius.  Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs met with Jongerius in Eindhoven to to talk about her childhood growing up on a tomato farm and how she discovered her creative ability when she took an evening course in carpentry.

Dezeen's Face to Face podcast series continues with an interview with designer Thomas Heatherwick. Although not an architect, Heatherwick has become known for his large scale building projects such as the Vessel in New York, Coal Drops Yard in London and the upcoming Google Campus in Mountain View, California. Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs met with Heatherwick at his London studio to talk about his childhood fascination with engineering, his distaste for architectural discourse and how he completed his first building while still a student.

Dezeen's new podcast Face to Face kicks off with an interview with artist, designer and director Es Devlin. Starting out as a theatre designer, Devlin has become known for her stage designs for some of the world's biggest musicians such as Beyoncé, Kanye West and U2. Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs met with Devlin at her home and studio in South London to discuss her seaside upbringing, her maverick student years and her meteoric career. Face to Face is sponsored by Twinmotion.

Dezeen has launched Face to Face, a new podcast series featuring the biggest names in architecture and design including Es Devlin, Norman Foster and Thomas Heatherwick, sponsored by Twinmotion. Get a preview of the series by listening to the trailer and remember to subscribe on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts to make sure you don't miss an episode.