Hodja on Architecture
This podcast is for architects, designers, and curious thinkers, exploring how ideas, culture, and power shape the spaces we inhabit through a concept-driven, storytelling-based architectural perspective, hosted by Dr Atlıhan Onat Karacalı (https://atlihankaracali.co.uk).
Podcast Description
This podcast is for architects, designers, and curious thinkers, exploring how ideas, culture, and power shape the spaces we inhabit through a concept-driven, storytelling-based architectural perspective, hosted by Dr Atlıhan Onat Karacalı (https://atlihankaracali.co.uk).
Episodes
Feb 23, 2026
Feb 23, 2026
6 min
This episode explores how Chaos in Greek cosmology represents not disorder but the birth of spatial order — the moment when separation, hierarchy, and orientation first lay the foundations of architecture itself.
Feb 27, 2026
Feb 27, 2026
7 min
This episode explores how the first vertical division between sky and earth transforms spatial separation into authority — revealing how height becomes the architectural language of power from myth to the modern skyline.
Mar 3, 2026
Mar 3, 2026
6 min
This episode explores how Mount Olympus transforms height into a political instrument, revealing how elevation becomes the architectural language of authority from myth to modern institutions.
Mar 9, 2026
Mar 9, 2026
7 min
This episode explores how the founding myth of Athens transforms narrative into urban identity, revealing how cities are shaped not only by buildings but by the stories they choose to believe.
Mar 12, 2026
Mar 12, 2026
7 min
This episode explores how the Greek world emerged between land and sea, revealing how stability and mobility shaped two contrasting spatial logics — rooted cities and fluid maritime networks.
Mar 15, 2026
Mar 15, 2026
7 min
This episode explores how the Greek underworld reveals the architecture of thresholds, showing how boundaries, passages, and irreversible crossings shape both mythological worlds and the spaces we inhabit.
Mar 19, 2026
Mar 19, 2026
7 min
This episode explores how the labyrinth transforms space into a strategic system in which disorientation, control, and navigation shape both mythological narratives and contemporary design practices.
Mar 23, 2026
Mar 23, 2026
7 min
This episode explores how Greek temples use orientation and the sacred axis to transform space into a system of meaning, aligning human experience with landscape, ritual, and the cosmos.
Mar 28, 2026
Mar 28, 2026
7 min
This episode explores how Hephaestus and the myth of fire reveal architecture as a process of making, where material transformation, craft, and production shape the spaces we inhabit.
Mar 31, 2026
Mar 31, 2026
7 min
This episode explores how ancient mythological ideas continue to shape contemporary space, revealing that modern architecture remains deeply rooted in timeless patterns of thought.









