10 Must-Listen Architecture and Design Podcasts

Podcasts have become increasingly popular over the past decade and podcast listeners have increased dramatically in the last year. According to Podcast Insights, there are currently over 2 million podcasts available online. Whether commuting to work, working up a sweat at the gym or cooking up a storm, podcasts are a fantastic way to stay informed on any particular topic and expand your mind. There are so many brilliant podcasts on architecture and design it can be overwhelming to know where to start. So, to make your life easier, Archify has put together a list of top ten podcasts that are sure to inspire and delight!

1. The New Architects Podcast

" Welcome to the New Architects Podcast. In this podcast we showcase young and emerging architecture practices and the amazing work that they are doing in the community. Learn about how they started their firms, the work they do, and what they aspire to do in the future." - New Architects Podcast

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

2. Hassell Talks

" When creativity meets strategy, design and architecture becomes valuable and inspiring. In a world of increasing complexity and opportunity, Hassell Talks brings together the minds tackling some of the biggest global challenges with the designers, stories and ideas helping to create places people love."  - Hassell Studio

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

3. 99% Invisible

" 99% Invisible is a sound-rich, narrative podcast hosted by Roman Mars about all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about — the unnoticed architecture and design that shape our world. With approximately 500 million downloads, 99pi is one of the most popular podcasts on Stitcher, Pandora, iTunes and is available on RadioPublic, via RSS, and through other apps." - 99 Percent Invisible

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

4. Face to Face by Dezeen

" Face to Face is a new podcast by Dezeen, the world's most popular and influential architecture and design magazine and is sponsored by Twinmotion. Hosted by Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, the series features conversations with the biggest names in architecture and design about how they got to where they are today." - Dezeen

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

5. It's Nice That Podcast

" This is the show where we talk to leading designers, illustrators, creative directors and photographers around the world about the delights – and dramas – of being a creative. We want to scrub away the Instagram gloss and hear the honest truth from people who have built careers out of their creativity. How do they come up with their best ideas? What’s the secret to staying inspired? And what can we do when our creativity seems to abandon us?" - It's Nice That

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

6. Hearing Architecture by EmAGN

" Hearing Architecture is a podcast featuring professionals from within the built environment, what they do, and why it’s important. In this podcast we’ll be interviewing architects, builders, and designers from around Australia who will tell us about the work they are doing to improve our cities and neighbourhoods." - EmAGN

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

7. The Young Architect

" The Young Architect website was created in 2014 when Michael Riscica began blogging about his experience of architecture school and taking the Architect Registration Examinations (ARE). Over the course of time, Young Architect has evolved and grown to include resources such as the ARE Bootcamp to help young, aspiring architects study for the AREs and begin their careers. Michael decided to begin the Young Architect Podcast so that he could have and share conversations with architects of different backgrounds, careers, and experiences rather than just writing about them. " - Young Architect

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

8. House of Style

" A conversation with iconic Australian design figures, exploring their past, present and future. The ‘House of Style’ podcast is a deep dive into prominent Australian interior brands, designers, artists, makers, industry personalities and their stories. A conversation about their journey, discussing what it takes to become an iconic Australian figure in today’s interiors landscape by exploring their past, present and future." - House of Style

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

9. Design and the City

"Design and the City is a podcast about the ways we can use design to make cities more livable and lovable. Cities are the sum of designers, developers, artists, citizens, public officials, entrepreneurs, and the displaced, but rarely do each of these constituencies gather in the same room, let alone speak the same language, and cities suffer for it. reSITE is literally that room. In order to create a city that is truly for everyone, we need to have conversations on how to design and build cities with humans in mind." - Resite

Listen on Spotify.

10. Material Matters with Grant Gibson

" Material Matters with Grant Gibson is a series of podcasts in which the eponymous host talks to a designer, maker, artist or architect about their relationship to a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked. Episodes often straddle the divide between professional and personal, with listeners finding out how guests came to be involved with their material in the first place and, subsequently, how it shaped their lives and careers." - Grant on Design

Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.