What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture documents a series of conversations with some of contemporary architecture's most accomplished thinkers and practitioners. The conversations took place in 2018 and 2019 at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), The University of Melbourne, with the hope of complementing lectures by visitors to the school. Where lectures gave insight into projects, these conversations dive deeper into the ideas and processes behind the buildings - the players, places, forces, cultural imperatives and ideologies that buttress every work of architecture, but that are often obscured by the glamour of the finished output. A set of essays commissioned from writers both inside and outside the discipline of architecture offer fresh insights into the themes uncovered, rounding out this thought-provoking book.

Contributors include:

Justin Clemens (associate professor at The University of Melbourne)

Beatriz Colomina (Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University).

Diane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo (Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at the University of Southern California)

Joshua Bolchover and John Lin (Rural Urban Framework)

Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University, Stockholm).

Peter Wilson (BOLLES+WILSON)

Scott Woods (Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne)