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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
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1hr 52mins
Ranked #2
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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Ranked #3
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
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #4
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
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1hr 16mins
Ranked #5
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
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #6
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
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1hr 17mins
Ranked #7
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
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1hr 34mins
Ranked #8
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
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1hr 39mins
Ranked #9
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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1hr 3mins
Ranked #10
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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1hr 22mins
Ranked #11
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
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #12
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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56mins
Ranked #13
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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1hr 39mins
Ranked #14
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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1hr 2mins
Ranked #15
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
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53mins
Ranked #16
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #17
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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41mins
Ranked #18
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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1hr 4mins
Ranked #19
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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1hr
Ranked #20
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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1hr 21mins