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...
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Podcasts de cities
25 – Palace of the Soviets – Wedding Cake Stalinism
First announced in 1931, the project for the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow evolved into a...
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Don’t listen if you haven’t seen the movie yet! We discuss Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner...
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24 – Blade Runner – Do You Like Our Owl?
As a postscript to our discussion of Cyberpunk in episodes 20-21, and vaguely looking ahead to...
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23 – Chicago Tribune – 2 of 2 – Honourable Mentions
We conclude our discussion of the 1922 Chicago Tribune competition, going through a few of the...
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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...
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21 – William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' – 2 of 2 – A Haunted House in Space
Leaving the waste-strewn Earth behind, we follow the team on their run all the way to its...
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20 – William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' – 1 of 2 – Foam Mattress, No Sheets
We’re back in dystopia, soaking up the glamour, danger and decadence of the cyberpunk city. We’re...
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39 — Catastrophe Curves — Early 90s Computer Architecture
The 1990s were when computers really entered the mainstream of architecture. The rise of personal...
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40 — Kubrick's '2001 – A Space Odyssey' — Pink Upholstery in Cartesian Space
Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001 a space odyssey is the iconic depiction of space travel,...
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41 — '2001 – A Space Odyssey' 2/2 — Live on BBC 12
The second part of our discussion of '2001 — A Space Odyssey'. At a certain point quite early...
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Conversation 1 — Fred Scharmen — Zero-G Carnival
A short post-script to the Space Age episodes — we talked to Fred Scharmen about the mid 1970s...
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42 — John Ruskin — How to be Victorian
John Ruskin’s ‘Stones of Venice’ is one of the monuments of architectural theory in the 19th...
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42 — John Ruskin — The Youth of a Rock Lover
John Ruskin’s ‘Stones of Venice’ is one of the monuments of architectural theory in the 19th...
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43 — John Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice' — vols 1-2
We discuss the first two volumes of 'Stones of Venice' — the interminable first and dream-like...
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Conversation 2.1 — Adam Caruso — On the night
This is the audio from our ‘In Conversation’ with Adam Caruso, held at Nottingham Contemporary on...
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Conversation 2.2 — Adam Caruso — Second Thoughts
This is the audio from our ‘In Conversation’ with Adam Caruso, held at Nottingham Contemporary on...
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Shoetopia! — by Stories from the Eastern West
A collaboration between About Buildings + Cities and Stories from the Eastern West...
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44 — Giovanni Michelucci — Late Style
Giovanni Michelucci was born in 1891, and lived through nine-tenths of the 20th century, through...
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45 — Ruskin and the 19th century — Living Too Late
We finally get onto the last book of Stones of Venice, and its reverberations through the long...
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