About Buildings + Cities
By Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture, History and Culture
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A podcast about architecture, buildings and cities, from the distant past to the present day. Plus detours into technology, film, fiction, comics, drawings, and the dimly imagined future.
With Luke Jones and George Gingell.
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112 — John Soane 2 — Rustic / Classical
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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111 — John Soane 1 — 'Visions of Early Fancy'
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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110 — Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York — 3/3
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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109 — Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York — 2/3
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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108 — Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York — 1/3
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Bonus Unlocked — 97.5 — Neom
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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107 – Stewart Brand's 'How Buildings Learn' — "What Happens After They're Built"
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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106 — Antoni Gaudí 7 — La Sagrada Familia
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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105 — Antoni Gaudí 6 — Colonia Güell
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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104 — Antoni Gaudí 5 —Güell Projects
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May 24, 2023 |
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103 — Antoni Gaudí 4 — Casas Calvet, Batlló & Milà
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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102 — Antoni Gaudí 3 — Going Gothic
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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101 — Antoni Gaudí 2 — Palau Güell
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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100 — Antoni Gaudí 1 — Bad at School
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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99 — Philip K. Dick's Ubik — Gnostic Paranoia
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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98 — The Primitive Hut — The Design of the First Building
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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97 — Richard Rogers' Reith Lecture — Cities for a Small Planet
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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96 — Andrea Palladio 6 — Venetian Churches
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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95 — Andrea Palladio 5 — Quattro Libri
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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94 — Andrea Palladio 4 — Civic Buildings
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May 13, 2022 |
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93 — Andrea Palladio 3 — Palladian Palazzi
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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92 — Andrea Palladio 2 — Greatest Villas
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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91 — Andrea Palladio 1 — The Most Imitated Architect in History
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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90 — Carlo Scarpa — 4/4 — All I Want Is A Pharoah
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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89 — Carlo Scarpa — 3/4 — Castelvecchio, Invented History
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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88 — Carlo Scarpa — 2/4 — Querini Stampalia, Venetian Sci-Fi
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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87 — Carlo Scarpa — 1/4 — Not Every Architect is an Artist
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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86 — Ian Nairn — 3/3 — Nairn on TV
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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85 — Ian Nairn — 2/3 — Nairn's London
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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84 — Ian Nairn — 1/3 — Subtopia
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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83 —Otto Wagner — 5/5 — Proto-Modernist
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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82 — Otto Wagner — 4/5 — Secession
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May 10, 2021 |
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*Preview* — 81.5 — Klimt
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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80 — Otto Wagner — 2/5 — The Style Question
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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79 — Otto Wagner — 1/5 — Ringstraße Rent Palaces
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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*Preview* — 77.5 — Patrick Keiller Bonus Episode
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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78 — WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz' — 2/2 — Locked Rooms
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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77 — WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz' — 1/2 — In the Nocturama
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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*Preview* — 76.5 — Robert Moses Bonus Episode
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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76 — Jane Jacobs — 2/2 — Unslumming and Gentrification
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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75 — Jane Jacobs — 1/2 — Eyes on the Street
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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74 — Monasteries — 3/3 — Fourier, Narkomfin, La Tourette
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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73 — Monasteries — 2/3 — The Apostolic Life
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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72 — Monasteries — 1/3 — Cluniacs and Cistercians
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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69 — Zaha Hadid — 4/4 — The Parametric Years
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May 17, 2020 |
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68 — Zaha Hadid — 3/4 — Vitra to Cardiff
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May 03, 2020 |
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Bonus Unlocked — 48.5 — OMA — Bigness
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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67 — Zaha Hadid — 2/4 — The Peak
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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66 — Zaha Hadid — 1/4 — AA Days
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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65 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 3/3 — Nostalghia and The Sacrifice
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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64 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 2/3 — Stalker
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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63 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1/3 — Setting the Stage
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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62 — Leon Battista Alberti — 2/2 — Building the Quattrocento
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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61 — Leon Battista Alberti — 1/2 — De Re Aedificatoria
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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60 — Reyner Banham — 2/2 — Design By Choice
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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59 — Reyner Banham — 1/2 — Science for Kicks
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Sep 22, 2019 |
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58 — The Reactionaries — 3/3 — The Empire Strikes Back
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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57 — The Reactionaries — 2/3 — Caesar's Palace without the Fun
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Conversation 3 — Dulwich Picture Gallery — Soane in The Colour Palace
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Jul 27, 2019 |
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56 — The Reactionaries — 1/3 — Interwar Anxieties
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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55 — Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira' — 3/3 — Good for Health, Bad for Education
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May 30, 2019 |
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54 — Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira — 2/3 — Exploding Neo-Tokyo Twice
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May 15, 2019 |
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53 — Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira — 1/3 — Radio School
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May 01, 2019 |
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52 — Nicholas Hawksmoor's Churches — 2/2
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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51 — Nicholas Hawksmoor's Churches — 1/2
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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50 — 19th c Machine Utopias — 2/2 — Looking Backwards
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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49 — 19th c. Machine Utopias 1/2 — Darwin Among the Machines
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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48 — OMA 1989 — Going Big
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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47 — Venturi Scott-Brown & Learning From Las Vegas
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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46 — Robert Venturi's 'Complexity & Contradiction' — Valid Banalities
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Bonus Unlocked — 44.5 — Italian Architecture Under Fascism
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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45 — John Ruskin & the 19th century — Living Too Late
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Dec 16, 2018 |
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44 — Giovanni Michelucci — Late Style
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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Shoetopia! — by Stories from the Eastern West
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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Conversation 2.2 — Adam Caruso — Second Thoughts
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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Conversation 2.1 — Adam Caruso — On the night
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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43 — John Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice' — Shafts!
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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42 — John Ruskin — Rock Lover
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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Conversation 1 — Fred Scharmen — Zero-G Carnival
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Sep 16, 2018 |
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41 — '2001 – A Space Odyssey' 2/2 — Live on BBC 12
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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40 — '2001 – A Space Odyssey' 1/2 — Pink Upholstery in Cartesian Space
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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39 — Catastrophe Curves — Early 90s Computer Architecture
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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38 — Le Corbusier — 9 — Villa Stein & Villa Savoye
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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37 — Le Corbusier — 8 — Five Points Towards a New Architecture
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Jul 01, 2018 |
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36 — Bernard Rudofsky & 'Architecture Without Architects'
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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35 — 'Playtime' & 'Mon Oncle' — Modern life in Tativille
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May 07, 2018 |
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34 — Adolf Loos's 'Ornament and Crime' — Bathroom Kink
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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33 — Le Corbusier — 7 — Early Mass Housing
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Mar 25, 2018 |
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32 — Le Corbusier – 6 – Urbanism — Let's Demolish Paris (Again)
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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31 – Le Corbusier – 5 – Urbanism – Of Men & Asses
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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30 – Franz Kafka's America
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Jan 14, 2018 |
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29 – Le Corbusier – 4 – At Home He Feels Like A Purist
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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28 – Le Corbusier – 3 – Towards a New Architecture
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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27 – Le Corbusier – 2 – Oyster and Breezeblock Years
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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26 – Le Corbusier – 1 – Have Formwork, Will Travel
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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25 – Palace of the Soviets – Wedding Cake Stalinism
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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24.5 – Blade Runner 2049
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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24 – Blade Runner – Do You Like Our Owl?
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Sep 16, 2017 |
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23 – Chicago Tribune – 2 of 2 – Honourable Mentions
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Sep 02, 2017 |
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22 – Chicago Tribune – 1 of 2 – World's Most Beautiful Office Building
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Aug 10, 2017 |
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21 – William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' – 2 of 2 – A Haunted House in Space
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Jun 14, 2017 |
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20 – William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' – 1 of 2 – Foam Mattress, No Sheets
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May 23, 2017 |
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19 – Jean Renaudie – French Concrete Utopia
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May 04, 2017 |
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18 – Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas & the End of Architecture
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Apr 17, 2017 |
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17 – Michelangelo – 3 of 3 – St Peters, Last Judgement, and Late Style
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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16 – Michelangelo – 2 of 3 – Laurentine Library and Campidoglio
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Mar 15, 2017 |
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15 – Michelangelo – 1 of 3 – David and the Sistine & Medici Chapels
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Mar 06, 2017 |
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14 – Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' – 2 of 2
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Feb 13, 2017 |
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13 – Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' – 1 of 2
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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12 – Aldo Rossi's Buildings – Part 2 of 2 – Venice Theatre to Disney HQ
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Jan 22, 2017 |
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11 – Aldo Rossi's Buildings – Part 1 of 2 – from the Partisans to the Cemetery
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Dec 24, 2016 |
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10 – Aldo Rossi's 'The Architecture of the City' – Interrupted Destiny
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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09 – The Glass Paradise – 3 of 3 – The Crystal Chain
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Oct 31, 2016 |
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08 – The Glass Paradise – 2 of 3 – Bruno Taut dissolves the Cities
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Oct 24, 2016 |
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07 – The Glass Paradise – 1 of 3 – Coloured Glass Destroys Hatred!
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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06 – Tate Modern – Herzog & de Meuron Before and After
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Sep 19, 2016 |
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05 - Living The Roman Good Life – Pliny's Letters on the Villas
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Sep 05, 2016 |
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04 – Barbican Estate – Establishment Brutalism
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Aug 29, 2016 |
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03 – How To Run An Efficient Dystopia – Taylorism and Science Fiction Cities
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Aug 24, 2016 |
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02 – Strawberry Hill – Horace Walpole's Gothic Fantasies
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Aug 24, 2016 |
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01 – 'The English House' by Hermann Muthesius – A German Spy in the Inglenook
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Aug 24, 2016 |