So this week not only do we have YouTube talking heads – but the real thing will be at a lecture theatre near you soon.This promises to be a rich week of lectures at VUW: Tim Hill, Peggy Deamer, Heike Rahmann and Mark Burry. Meanwhile a substantial meal of video-ing (yes mainly ex-TED) below.

Starting off we have Thom Mayne “Architecture is a new way to connect to the world” …

and then “Explore Alice Tully Hall with Liz Diller” (FLYPMedia) …

… and to end an interesting – but at sometimes earnest – little talk by Greg Lynn: proportions, symmetry and architecture in another TED lecture: “How calculus is changing architecture” …