Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Dr Nikolaos Karydis, Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Kent. Nikos and I have a twin passion for cinema and radio, and we begin our conversation by talking about the way architecture is represented in movies and why films tend to present alternative architect lives to what happens in the real world. Nikos grew up in Athens before moving to the UK, and we hear about what attracted him to architecture in the mid-1990s via furniture design, and about how his field now is architectural history and the architecture of churches. We discuss the concept of the journey of discovery and whether we could ever have anticipated the final destination, as well as about the role of serendipity in shaping us. Nikos and I talk about the way limitations can sometimes generate great creativity, and why improvisation is essential, before moving on to discuss classical music and especially the piano, and the use of such music in Kubrick’s cinema, together with the use of contrasts and cou