Mixed Signal Podcast

Architecture, cultural hype, politics, technology and everything nice

Mixed Signal Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by MXD, with 37 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

MXD hosts Mixed Signal Podcast, a arts show with 37 episodes published.

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  Episode #38

  Universities Ban Tech, Space Force's Sci-Fi Uniforms & is Nike Collapsing? | MXD News Podcast

  Sep 18, 202632 minS3

  This week we open with the University of Chicago pulling laptops and phones from its core social science classrooms — and New York City banning AI in elementary and middle schools. Is going analog the right call, or are blanket tech bans just fear of an unknown future? We get into how we handle it in our own studios and seminars. Then: the US Space Force unveiled new uniforms, and the sci-fi references are doing a lot of work. We unpack the Starship Troopers connection, the uncomfortable fashion history underneath it, and why military design references are never really neutral. Also on the docket — MOS Architects' new pavilion opening at Art OMI, Nike getting booted from the S&P 100 after a brutal run, IKEA's free Skyrim mod that turns the Kallax shelf into your companion, a suspicious "most climate resilient cities" ranking, Ye's unsettling new stage look, Boys Firm's dead-on "six types of architecture thesis" post, and a return to the 9/11 light memorial with a much darker reference point.

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  Episode #37

  First look inside the George Lucas Museum, 9/11 Toxic Air Cover-Up & Brad Pitt's Architecture Movie

  Sep 11, 202630 minS3

  This week we get our first real look inside MAD Architects' long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, opening September 22nd in LA after a wild history that started in Chicago. We compare the polished press photos to the more candid, "banal" behind-the-scenes shots making the rounds — and talk about what actually happens when hype meets reality on a capital-A architecture project. We also mark 9/11 with a look at a moving drone memorial over the NYC skyline, the debate over how younger generations relate to the day, and the bombshell records released by Mayor Mamdani confirming officials — including Giuliani — knew about toxic ground zero air and worked to cover it up. From there: Brad Pitt is producing a film about Peter Zumthor directed by Wim Wenders (plus the real story on Brad's architecture background), the Empire State Building's surprisingly massive TikTok following, Archtober events to watch, Archisource's Drawing of the Year winners and what even counts as a "drawing" anymore, and why the architecture subreddit is full of people asking if the profession is dying.

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  Episode #36

  MXD News _ Academia in Crisis, AI "Takeover" Fears & the Death of the Starchitect

  Sep 7, 202629 minS3

  We start with the shakeup happening across higher education — starting with The New School's mass faculty cuts and what it says about the future of architecture and design programs everywhere. We talk tenure, underenrolled humanities departments, and why architecture school recruitment is struggling. Then we shift to AI: the Hugging Face "rogue agent" incident that's got security experts calling it a potential milestone in AI autonomy, why ChatGPT and Claude gave us wildly different answers about it, and Elon Musk's prediction that AI will outcode humans within two years — plus what that means for the already-brutal entry-level coding job market. We close out with a look at BIG's new Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, why iconic "starchitect" buildings don't hit the way they used to, and a tribute to OMA co-founder Elias Zenghelis, who passed away at 89. Make sure to follow us on our socials! Instagram - mxd_signal Tiktok - mxd_signal YouTube - MXDSignal

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  Episode #35

  The Drawings We Make for Ourselves | Narrative, Identity & Storytelling in Architecture

  Jun 3, 20261h 22mS2

  <p>What stories do architects tell themselves—and how do those stories shape the work they create?This week on Mixed Signals, the MXD crew is joined by Kristen Mimms Scavnicky and Adrienne Economos-Miller, educators, artists, and designers whose work explores the powerful relationship between narrative, identity, and representation in architecture.</p><p>We begin with a round of Cold Crits featuring student work from Texas A&M and the University of Pennsylvania before turning our attention to a curious trend in contemporary culture: the increasing tendency to flatten complexity into aesthetics. From the MET Gala's relationship to art and sp...

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  Episode #34

  Ep. 34 Image and Storytelling in Architecture with Dr Rebecca McConnell.

  May 27, 20261h 28mS2

  <p>The MXD crew welcomes Dr. Rebecca McConnell to the podcast! We discuss the evolving role of the rendering in Architecture in light of new Artificial Intelligence image generation techniques.We then move into a special edition of Cold Crits, featuring speculative Architectural projects from Artist Ismail Seleit. We then discuss some of the differences between education and Academia in the United States and the United Kingdom. We also discuss Crit Bay, the platform that Rebecca and Cathal founded to provide easy access to Architectural portfolio or even project feedback. Make sure to follow us on our socials!Instagram...

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