Episode 2: Architecture as a Living Intelligence | Chris Mueller | Beyond with Jean-Claude Bastos

Описание: This is Beyond. I'm Jean-Claude Bastos.

In this episode, I sit down with Chris Mueller — a New Zealand architect, inventor, and designer whose work spans industrial design, urbanism, and structural innovation. Known for his appearance on Grand Designs New Zealand and his invention of the Click Raft structural system, Chris brings a rare perspective shaped by 20 years of living and working across Europe and a lifelong fascination with doing more with less.

Together we explore architecture not as the design of buildings, but as the fundamental organizing principle of everything — what Chris calls "the nature of nature." From the genius engineering of the Citroën 2CV to the ancient wisdom of Southern European hilltowns, from the memory carried by thousand-year-old buildings to the physics of the bent universe, this conversation moves between the tangible and the invisible.

We also discuss why AI may be more distraction than breakthrough, what Antoni Gaudí's analog models can teach us about speed and precision, and why — in Chris's words — "more of us should go sailing."

Topics covered:
— Architecture as the nature of nature
— The "less is more" philosophy and the Citroën 2CV
— Southern European hilltowns and long-term sustainability
— Buildings as carriers of memory and intelligence
— The bent universe and curvilinear structural efficiency
— Click Raft: weaving tension and compression
— AI as distraction vs. tool
— Analog intuition vs. digital processing
— The responsibility of the architect

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Beyond is a podcast that explores the frontier where technology, nature, and the unknown intersect.