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
May 2, 2026
May 2, 2026
9 min
This episode reframes ergonomics not as a system of measurements, but as a way of understanding how space is experienced through the body.
May 3, 2026
May 3, 2026
8 min
This episode explores how space only becomes meaningful when a body enters it—and asks whose body design is really built for.
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
7 min
This episode explores why measuring the body is necessary in design—and why it is never enough to truly understand it.
May 7, 2026
May 7, 2026
9 min
This episode questions the idea of the “average human” and explores how design standards often exclude the very diversity they claim to serve.
May 9, 2026
May 9, 2026
9 min
This episode explores how invisible distances between bodies shape social behaviour, spatial comfort, and the way architecture quietly organises human relationships.
May 10, 2026
May 10, 2026
8 min
This episode explores how movement transforms architecture from a static object into a lived and unfolding spatial experience.
May 13, 2026
May 13, 2026
9 min
This episode explores how the chair became both an ergonomic object and a cultural icon, revealing the tension between comfort, posture, and design ideology.
May 14, 2026
May 14, 2026
9 min
This episode explores whether design truly adapts to human needs—or whether humans gradually learn to adapt themselves to designed systems.
May 16, 2026
May 16, 2026
9 min
This episode explores how light, sound, materiality, and sensory perception shape the emotional atmosphere of architectural experience.
May 17, 2026
May 17, 2026
9 min
This episode brings the season together by exploring architecture not as an object to observe, but as a lived relationship between body, perception, behaviour, and space — before looking ahead to the Neolithic origins of architecture itself.









