Ep. 32 Designing With Models! & Mysterious Architectural Objects with Ryosuke Imaeda!

<p>The MXD crew welcomes Ryosuke Imaeda to discuss models, materiality, craft, and mysterious architectural objects! We start off the episode with a model-focused edition of Cold-Crits. </p><p>Ryo tells the MXD crew about his time at global design firms Zaha Hadid Architects and Reiser Umemoto Reiser. We also discuss his design-research through teaching and his perspective on materiality and craft in the production of a project.</p><p>In a new edition of Yay or Nay, we discuss diagrams and their roll in representation. We also debate whether metaphor has a place in architecture. </p><p>And finally, in Trending Topics we talk about &quot;aesthetics-maxing&quot;, noticing new trends in design. </p>