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About Buildings + Cities

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 Jo... Read more

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Conversation 2.1 — Adam Caruso — On the night

Conversation 2.1 — Adam Caruso — On the night

This is the audio from our ‘In Conversation’ with Adam Caruso, held at Nottingham Contemporary on October the 4th. You ... Read more

12 Nov 2018

1hr 52mins

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75 — Jane Jacobs — 1/2 — Eyes on the Street

75 — Jane Jacobs — 1/2 — Eyes on the Street

The first episode in a two-part series on Jane Jacobs, a profoundly influential writer, thinker and campaigner on issues... Read more

25 Nov 2020

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65 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 3/3 — Nostalghia and The Sacrifice

65 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 3/3 — Nostalghia and The Sacrifice

In our final episode on Andrei Tarkovsky, we discuss the two films he directed after leaving the Soviet Union: Nostalghi... Read more

17 Mar 2020

1hr 15mins

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76 — Jane Jacobs — 2/2 — Unslumming and Gentrification

76 — Jane Jacobs — 2/2 — Unslumming and Gentrification

Our second episode on Jane Jacobs' canonical work, 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities'. In this second half we... Read more

10 Dec 2020

1hr 16mins

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26 – Le Corbusier – 1 – Have Formwork, Will Travel

26 – Le Corbusier – 1 – Have Formwork, Will Travel

We’re taking on the origin story of (for better or worse) the most important architect of the 20th century — Charles-Edo... Read more

13 Nov 2017

1hr 10mins

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48 — OMA 1989 — Going Big

48 — OMA 1989 — Going Big

Rem Koolhaas and the firm he founded with three partners in 1975 — Office of Metropolitan Architects, OMA — are fascinat... Read more

11 Feb 2019

1hr 17mins

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03 – How To Run An Efficient Dystopia – Taylorism and Science Fiction Cities

03 – How To Run An Efficient Dystopia – Taylorism and Science Fiction Cities

George & Luke survey three dystopian cities; the glass perfection of Yvegny Zamyatin’s ‘We’, the consumer World Stat... Read more

24 Aug 2016

1hr 34mins

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69 — Zaha Hadid — 4/4 — The Parametric Years

69 — Zaha Hadid — 4/4 — The Parametric Years

In this final episode on Zaha Hadid we discuss a small fraction of the huge number of projects that ZHA produced from th... Read more

17 May 2020

1hr 39mins

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18 – Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas & the End of Architecture

18 – Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas & the End of Architecture

A fuzzy empire of blur, a low grade purgatory, a perpetual Jacuzzi with millions of your best friends… We're discussing ... Read more

17 Apr 2017

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59 — Reyner Banham — 1/2 — Science for Kicks

59 — Reyner Banham — 1/2 — Science for Kicks

As requested by the listeners, part one of a two parter on Reyner Banham! Banham was an architectural critic, historian,... Read more

22 Sep 2019

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34 — Adolf Loos's 'Ornament and Crime' — Bathroom Kink

34 — Adolf Loos's 'Ornament and Crime' — Bathroom Kink

Adolf Loos’s essay ‘Ornament and Crime’ (1910) is considered the classic modernist polemic against the frills and folder... Read more

10 Apr 2018

1hr 5mins

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13 – Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' – 1 of 2

13 – Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' – 1 of 2

This isn't one of those book reviews where you're expected to read the book first – we did it so you don't have to. Ayn... Read more

30 Jan 2017

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61 — Leon Battista Alberti — 1/2 — De Re Aedificatoria

61 — Leon Battista Alberti — 1/2 — De Re Aedificatoria

In this first episode of a two parter, we tackle the original big beautiful bouncing boy of the High Italian Renaissance... Read more

5 Nov 2019

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04 – Barbican Estate – Establishment Brutalism

04 – Barbican Estate – Establishment Brutalism

Exploring the history and architecture of the inimitable Barbican Estate, the joys of brutalism, concrete, late modernis... Read more

29 Aug 2016

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31 – Le Corbusier – 5 – Urbanism – Of Men & Asses

31 – Le Corbusier – 5 – Urbanism – Of Men & Asses

The first of a two part episode exploring Le Corbusier’s infamous and much-derided urban proposals, exhibited in the Esp... Read more

13 Feb 2018

53mins

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22 – Chicago Tribune – 1 of 2 – World's Most Beautiful Office Building

22 – Chicago Tribune – 1 of 2 – World's Most Beautiful Office Building

In 1922, to coincide with its 75th birthday, the Chicago Tribune set out to endow the city with ‘the world’s most beauti... Read more

10 Aug 2017

1hr 2mins

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37 — Le Corbusier — 8 — Five Points Towards a New Architecture

37 — Le Corbusier — 8 — Five Points Towards a New Architecture

We now have a Patreon — you can subscribe to get additional content for every episode. Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanerre... Read more

1 Jul 2018

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07 – The Glass Paradise – 1 of 3 – Coloured Glass Destroys Hatred!

07 – The Glass Paradise – 1 of 3 – Coloured Glass Destroys Hatred!

We begin a three-part exploration of the Glass Paradise – an early 20th vision of a better world – starting off with Bru... Read more

27 Sep 2016

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10 – Aldo Rossi's 'The Architecture of the City' – Interrupted Destiny

10 – Aldo Rossi's 'The Architecture of the City' – Interrupted Destiny

A valiant attempt to understand Aldo Rossi's 1966 'L'Architettura della Citta', a book which both Luke & George have... Read more

6 Dec 2016

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60 — Reyner Banham — 2/2 — Design By Choice

60 — Reyner Banham — 2/2 — Design By Choice

In our second and final episode on Reyner Banham, we discuss his pivot to Los Angeles, his love affair with Archigram, h... Read more

10 Oct 2019

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