Episode 073 - InSitu 2026 - Brendan MacFarlane

Welcome to Episode 073! This is our first of three interviews at Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects In:Situ 2026 + CAA General Assembly conference.

Tash, Mat and Arch spoke with Brendan MacFarlane ahead of his keynote talk on the first day of the conference. Brendan is a graduate of SCI-arc and holds a masters from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and in 1998 he and Dominique Jakob founded Jakob+MacFarlane, a Paris based practice with work that’s both formally and regionally expansive. We talked with Brendan about context, metaphors, and how architects do their best work when their 'backs are to the wall'

Our thanks to Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects for arranging our interview with Brendan.

Jakob + MacFarlane - https://jakobmacfarlane.com/en

Theme Music: The Cosmic Wheels