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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.

Episodes	Status	Status
87 — Carlo Scarpa — 1/3 — Not Every Architect is an Artist... In our first episode on Carlo Scarpa, we're trying something...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
86 — Ian Nairn — Nairn on TV In the final episode in our series on Ian Nairn, we discusse...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
85 — Ian Nairn — 2/3 — Nairn's London EDITORS APOLOGY - I accidentally uploaded episode 1 instead ...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
85 — Ian Nairn — 2/3 — Nairn's London In the second episode of our series on Ian Nairn, we talked ...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
84 — Ian Nairn — 1/3 — Subtopia The first episode in our new series on the work of architect...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
83 —Otto Wagner — 5/5 — Proto-Modernist Our final episode on Otto Wagner considers his relationship ...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
82 — Otto Wagner — 4/5 — Secession In the penultimate episode in our series on Otto Wagner, we ...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Preview — 81.5 — Vienna Secession This is a preview of our latest bonus episode on Gustav Klim...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn In this episode, we talked about the middle stage of Otto Wa...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
80 — Otto Wagner — 2/5 — The Style Question In our second episode on Otto Wagner, we discussed a couple ...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
79 — Otto Wagner — 1/5 — Ringstraße Rent Palaces This is the first episode in our new series on Otto Wagner. ...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Preview — 77.5 — Patrick Keiller Bonus Episode This is a preview of a bonus episode we published on Patreon...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
78 — WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz' — 2/2 — Locked Rooms Our second episode on WG Sebald's 2001 novel 'Austerlitz', e...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
77 — WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz' — 1/2 — In the Nocturama In our first episode of 2021 we discussed 'Austerlitz', the ...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Preview — 76.5 — Robert Moses Bonus Episode This is a preview from our latest Patreon Bonus Episode – su...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
76 — Jane Jacobs — 2/2 — Unslumming and Gentrification Our second episode on Jane Jacobs' canonical work, 'The Deat...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
75 — Jane Jacobs — 1/2 — Eyes on the Street The first episode in a two-part series on Jane Jacobs, a pro...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
74 — Monasteries — 3/3 — Fourier, Narkomfin, La Tourette... The final episode in our series on the deep history of the m...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
73 — Monasteries — 2/3 — The Apostolic Life In our second episode on Monasteries we're talking about Car...	N/A 3 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
72 — Monasteries — 1/3 — Cluniacs and Cistercians In this new 3 part series we’re trying something a little bi...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language In our second episode on Christopher Alexander, we discuss '...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of... This is the first episode of a new series on Design Theorist...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
69 — Zaha Hadid — 4/4 — The Parametric Years In this final episode on Zaha Hadid we discuss a small fract...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
68 — Zaha Hadid — 3/4 — Vitra to Cardiff The third part of our ongoing series on Zaha Hadid! In this ...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Bonus Unlocked — 48.5 — OMA — Bigness UNLOCKED PATREON BONUS This unlocked bonus episode comes fr...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
67 — Zaha Hadid — 2/4 — The Peak In our second episode on Zaha Hadid, we're covering the rest...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
66 — Zaha Hadid — 1/4 — AA Days In our first episode on Zaha Hadid, we dive into the spell-b...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
65 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 3/3 — Nostalghia and The Sacrifice... In our final episode on Andrei Tarkovsky, we discuss the two...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
64 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 2/3 — Stalker In our second episode on Soviet director and auteur Andrei T...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
63 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1/3 — Setting the Stage In this first part of our new series on legendary Russian di...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
62 — Leon Battista Alberti — 2/2 — Building the Quattrocento... 62 — Leon Battista Alberti — 2/2 — Building the Quattrocento...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
61 — Leon Battista Alberti — 1/2 — De Re Aedificatoria In this first episode of a two parter, we tackle the origina...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
60 — Reyner Banham — 2/2 — Design By Choice In our second and final episode on Reyner Banham, we discuss...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
59 — Reyner Banham — 1/2 — Science for Kicks As requested by the listeners, part one of a two parter on R...	N/A 4 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
58 — The Reactionaries — 3/3 — The Empire Strikes Back In our final episode on Reactionaries, we explore the politi...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
57 — The Reactionaries — 2/3 — Caesar's Palace without the F... In our second episode on Reactionaries, we explore the rejec...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Conversation 3 — Dulwich Picture Gallery — Soane in The Colo... This is the audio from our live panel discussion at Dulwich ...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
56 — The Reactionaries — 1/3 — Interwar Anxieties Come and see us record a live episode at ...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
55 — Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira' — 3/3 — Good for Health, Bad... In this concluding part of our discussion, we interview Anna...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
54 — Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira — 2/3 — Exploding Neo-Tokyo Twi... In the second part of our discussion, we talk through the wh...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
53 — Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira — 1/3 — Radio School Katsuhiro Otomo’s vast magnum opus ‘Akira’ (1982-90) is one ...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
52 — Nicholas Hawksmoor's Churches — 2/2 We conclude our discussion of the churches of Nicholas Hawks...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
51 — Nicholas Hawksmoor's Churches — 1/2 Nicholas Hawksmoor, born in 1661, built six churches in Lond...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
50 — 19th c Machine Utopias — 2/2 — Looking Backwards... The second part of our discussion of the utopias and dystopi...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
49 — 19th c. Machine Utopias 1/2 — Darwin Among the Machines... We start a two-part discussion of the utopias and dystopias ...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
48 — OMA 1989 — Going Big Rem Koolhaas and the firm he founded with three partners in ...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
47 — Venturi Scott-Brown & Learning From Las Vegas We continue our discussion of the theoretical works of Rober...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
46 — Robert Venturi's 'Complexity & Contradiction' — Valid B... For the first AB+C of 2019 we’re tackling one of the seminal...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Bonus Unlocked — 44.5 — Italian Architecture Under Fascism... We're a bit late with the first episode of the new year, so ...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
45 — John Ruskin & the 19th century — Living Too Late We finally get onto the last book of Stones of Venice, and i...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
44 — Giovanni Michelucci — Late Style Giovanni Michelucci was born in 1891, and lived through nine...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Shoetopia! — by Stories from the Eastern West A collaboration between About Buildings + Cities and Stories...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Conversation 2.2 — Adam Caruso — Second Thoughts This is the audio from our ‘In Conversation’ with Adam Carus...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Conversation 2.1 — Adam Caruso — On the night This is the audio from our ‘In Conversation’ with Adam Carus...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
43 — John Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice' — Shafts! We discuss the first two volumes of 'Stones of Venice' — the...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
42 — John Ruskin — Rock Lover John Ruskin’s ‘Stones of Venice’ is one of the monuments of ...	N/A 5 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
Conversation 1 — Fred Scharmen — Zero-G Carnival A short post-script to the Space Age episodes — we talked to...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
41 — '2001 – A Space Odyssey' 2/2 — Live on BBC 12 The second part of our discussion of '2001 — A Space Odyssey...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
40 — '2001 – A Space Odyssey' 1/2 — Pink Upholstery in Carte... Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001 a space odyssey is the icon...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
39 — Catastrophe Curves — Early 90s Computer Architecture... The 1990s were when computers really entered the mainstream ...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
38 — Le Corbusier — 9 — Villa Stein & Villa Savoye We now have a Patreon — you can subscribe to get additional ...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
37 — Le Corbusier — 8 — Five Points Towards a New Architectu... We now have a Patreon — you can subscribe to get additional ...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
36 — Bernard Rudofsky & 'Architecture Without Architects'... We’re launching a Patreon — you can subscribe to get additio...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
35 — 'Playtime' & 'Mon Oncle' — Modern life in Tativille... Jacques Tati's 'Mon Oncle' (1957) and 'Playtime' (1967) play...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
34 — Adolf Loos's 'Ornament and Crime' — Bathroom Kink Adolf Loos’s essay ‘Ornament and Crime’ (1910) is considered...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
33 — Le Corbusier — 7 — Early Mass Housing In this episode we explore in two early schemes for mass hou...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
32 — Le Corbusier – 6 – Urbanism — Let's Demolish Paris (Aga... The concluding part of our discussion of ‘Urbanism’ (1925) —...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
31 – Le Corbusier – 5 – Urbanism – Of Men & Asses The first of a two part episode exploring Le Corbusier’s inf...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
30 – Franz Kafka's America Franz Kafka’s first, and least-finished, novel is an imagina...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
29 – Le Corbusier – 4 – At Home He Feels Like A Purist... For our Christmas episode, we're discussing the early Purist...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
28 – Le Corbusier – 3 – Towards a New Architecture A new epoch has begun! Le Corbusier’s ‘discovery’ is that th...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
27 – Le Corbusier – 2 – Oyster and Breezeblock Years We’re in Paris, 1917, where Charles-Edouard Jeanneret is mak...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
26 – Le Corbusier – 1 – Have Formwork, Will Travel We’re taking on the origin story of (for better or worse) th...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
25 – Palace of the Soviets – Wedding Cake Stalinism First announced in 1931, the project for the Palace of the S...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
24.5 – Blade Runner 2049 Don’t listen if you haven’t seen the movie yet! We discuss...	N/A 6 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
24 – Blade Runner – Do You Like Our Owl? As a postscript to our discussion of Cyberpunk in episodes 2...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
23 – Chicago Tribune – 2 of 2 – Honourable Mentions We conclude our discussion of the 1922 Chicago Tribune compe...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
22 – Chicago Tribune – 1 of 2 – World's Most Beautiful Offic... In 1922, to coincide with its 75th birthday, the Chicago Tri...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
21 – William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' – 2 of 2 – A Haunted Hou... Leaving the waste-strewn Earth behind, we follow the team on...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
20 – William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' – 1 of 2 – Foam Mattres... We’re back in dystopia, soaking up the glamour, danger and d...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
19 – Jean Renaudie – French Concrete Utopia During the 1960s and 70s, the French architect Jean Renaudie...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
18 – Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas & the End of Architecture... A fuzzy empire of blur, a low grade purgatory, a perpetual J...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
17 – Michelangelo – 3 of 3 – St Peters, Last Judgement, and... Michelangelo’s incredibly long career meant that he was old ...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
16 – Michelangelo – 2 of 3 – Laurentine Library and Campidog... We continue our discussion of the architecture of Michelange...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
15 – Michelangelo – 1 of 3 – David and the Sistine & Medici... The first of a three-parter in which we try to understand th...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
14 – Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' – 2 of 2 The second part of your discussion of Ayn Rand's extremely l...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
13 – Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' – 1 of 2 This isn't one of those book reviews where you're expected t...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
12 – Aldo Rossi's Buildings – Part 2 of 2 – Venice Theatre t... The second half of Aldo Rossi's career. We discuss his role ...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
11 – Aldo Rossi's Buildings – Part 1 of 2 – from the Partisa... Aldo Rossi’s strange and elegiac early buildings – from the ...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
10 – Aldo Rossi's 'The Architecture of the City' – Interrupt... A valiant attempt to understand Aldo Rossi's 1966 'L'Archite...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
09 – The Glass Paradise – 3 of 3 – The Crystal Chain The collapse of the Imperial German state after WW1 seemed a...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
08 – The Glass Paradise – 2 of 3 – Bruno Taut dissolves the... Paul Scheerbart is dead, and Europe has dissolved into confl...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
07 – The Glass Paradise – 1 of 3 – Coloured Glass Destroys H... We begin a three-part exploration of the Glass Paradise – an...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
06 – Tate Modern – Herzog & de Meuron Before and After Luke & George visit and discuss Switch House, the new ex...	N/A 7 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
05 - Living The Roman Good Life – Pliny's Letters on the Vil... Luke & George read and discuss Pliny the Younger’s two l...	N/A 8 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
04 – Barbican Estate – Establishment Brutalism Exploring the history and architecture of the inimitable Bar...	N/A 8 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
03 – How To Run An Efficient Dystopia – Taylorism and Scienc... George & Luke survey three dystopian cities; the glass p...	N/A 8 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
02 – Strawberry Hill – Horace Walpole's Gothic Fantasies An exploration of Horace Walpole’s mid 18th c. Gothic fantas...	N/A 8 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!
01 – 'The English House' by Hermann Muthesius – A German Spy... The first episode of a new podcast! Luke and George read H...	N/A 8 years ago	0% 👻 No ratings yet!