What is the sound of architecture broadcasting beyond its discourse?
Sonic identity, templating, and creative consultation for Columbia University GSAPP's Advanced Architectural Design student radio show—four seasons of end-to-end podcast production with architecture students in the studio.
My role
Invited by GSAPP dean Andrés Jaque and AAD Assistant Director Xiaoxi Chen, I led creative production and technical direction on rAADio, the GSAPP AAD Radio Show. To support multiple seasons across years of graduate students, I established the founding format and production templates, created original sonic identity and design, and led recording with each cohort. As a GSAPP alum (CCCP ’14) whose research focused on media ecology, sound, and architecture, I loved the intersection of spatial and sonic thinking—and helping shape rAADio into a platform for discourse.
Max has been a dream to work with.
Teaching the full radio process
Architecture students learned end-to-end podcast production: conceptual framing to drive sonic identity, choosing audience and format, script writing, narration, recording, and what professional studio practice demands—from first ideas through final mix. Music and architecture are both spatial disciplines; through storytelling and audio production, students explored space from a sonic perspective—how acoustics and modeling can transform how a sound or message is heard.
Project Credits & Information
- Project type
- Teaching
- Partner
- Columbia University GSAPP
- Agency
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- Role
- Director & Producer · sonic identity · creative consultation
- Credits
- Program: GSAPP AAD Students, Xiaoxi Chen (AAD Assistant Director), Andrés Jaque (Dean). Director & Producer: Maximilian Lauter. Lead Audio Engineer & Sound Design: Alex Hamadey. Recording Engineers: Timothy Jacob Kwasny, Camila Agosto, Alana de Vito.
- Website
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- Date
- 2021–2024
