# Alexander Josephson: Practice life and the political.

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Podcast: [A is for Architecture Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-is-for-architecture-podcast-4885985)
Published: 2026-02-19T22:00:01+00:00
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## Resource

For Episode 190 of the A is for Architecture Podcast, Alexander Josephson , architect, lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, and in 2012, co-founder of PARTISANS , a Toronto-based collective of architects, designers and thinkers that, among other things, is currently collaborating on the renewal of the Hearn Generating Station, a massive decommissioned power plant on Toronto’s waterfront, projected to hold the largest gallery space in North America as part of its transformation into 'a city in a building'. The practice’s works are regularly featured in global design publications. Alex also founded Cumulus , a tech start-up that provides ‘an immersive digital archive of photos, videos and files in a memory cloud that clients can share with loved ones’, a sort-of archive of the virtual, a digital ossuary, if you will. For an architect, this is the ultimate Latourian-turn, I guess. Alex can be found on PARTISANS’ website , on LinkedIn and Instagram . Cumulus is here . + Music credits: ⁠Bruno Gillick #ArchitecturePodcast # #AlexJosephson #PARTISANSarchitecture #InnovativeArchitecture #TorontoArchitect

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