Wojciech Czaja: Learning from Everywhere

How does garbage collection work in Taipei? Where do you go to the hairdresser in Hanoi? And what do you have to bear in mind when taking the night train to Bangkok? Social rules and everyday cultural codes are as diverse as the planet we live on. And not everything follows the familiar rules that we have learned through our Central European civilization glasses.

Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi proved with their book “Learning from Las Vegas” (1972) that you can learn something from any place, from any urban culture, no matter how foreign. This is a conversation about everyday examples of learning from West Africa, the Arab world and the largest Chinese megacities. With architecture and urban journalist Wojciech Czaja, who has traveled to 80 countries and explored around 400 cities.