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91 — Andrea Palladio 1 — The Most Imitated Architect in History
We're starting a series exploring the work of Andrea Palladio. In his own time, Palladio was a prominent architect based in 16th century Vicenza. Subsequently he's become arguably one of the most influential architects of all history -- def
90 — Carlo Scarpa — 4/4 — All I Want Is A Pharoah
We round off our series on Carlo Scarpa with two projects for Italian consumer electronics dynasties — the Olivetti corporation, for whom he designed a famous shop in Piazza San Marco, and the Brion-Vega family for whom he designed an extra
89 — Carlo Scarpa — 3/4 — Castelvecchio, Invented History
The Castelvecchio Museum (1959-73) in Verona is an elaborate spatial narrative, weaving together historic structures and ingenious design elements to create a fragmentary and multi-layered story about the site, the city, and the objects con
88 — Carlo Scarpa — 2/4 — Querini Stampalia, Venetian Sci-Fi
We talked about Carlo Scarpa's work at the Querini Stampalia foundation (1959-63), a palazzo-museum in Venice. Scarpa's interventions are focussed on the ground floor spaces, including a new entrance bridge, galleries and courtyard garden.
87 — Carlo Scarpa — 1/4 — Not Every Architect is an Artist
In our first episode on Carlo Scarpa, we're trying something new! We've made a video to accompany the episode that you can find on our YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/AboutBuildingsCities), in which you can watch Luke and George
86 — Ian Nairn — 3/3 — Nairn on TV
In the final episode in our series on Ian Nairn, we discussed the 1967 book 'Britain's Changing Towns' and the BBC television work that has granted Nairn a viral afterlife on YouTube. Here's the Nairn clip from the outro: https://www.youtub
85 — Ian Nairn — 2/3 — Nairn's London
In the second episode of our series on Ian Nairn, we talked about Nairn's London, the 1966 architectural guide to the city which was the critic's magnum opus. We discussed his inimitable prose style, his deep knowledge of the buildings of L
84 — Ian Nairn — 1/3 — Subtopia
The first episode in our new series on the work of architectural critic Ian Nairn. In this first episode we discussed his breakout work for the Architectural Review, Outrage, which railed against 'subtopia', the suburban sprawl of concrete
83 —Otto Wagner — 5/5 — Proto-Modernist
Our final episode on Otto Wagner considers his relationship to modernism, asking whether Wagner was a predecessor to modernism. We discussed his most modern building, the Österreichische Postsparkasse or Austrian Postal Savings Bank, like s
82 — Otto Wagner — 4/5 — Secession
In the penultimate episode in our series on Otto Wagner, we discussed Wagner's most famous projects, the art nouveau works produced at the height of the Vienna Secession. We talked about the Majolikahaus (https://www.archdaily.com/125067/ad
*Preview* — 81.5 — Klimt
This is a preview of our latest bonus episode on Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession, get access to the full episode on our Patreon (https://patreon.com/about_buildings). In this episode we discussed the work of the Vienna Secession beyon
81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn
In this episode, we talked about the middle stage of Otto Wagner's career, primarily his work on the infrastructure of the city of Vienna. Visit our instagram and Twitter for pictures of the dams, railway stations and bridges that shaped Vi
80 — Otto Wagner — 2/5 — The Style Question
In our second episode on Otto Wagner, we discussed a couple of Wagner's early buildings, specifically the Landerbank in Vienna and the Rumbach Street Synagogue in Budapest. Both are tantalising glimpses of the themes that would dominate his
79 — Otto Wagner — 1/5 — Ringstraße Rent Palaces
This is the first episode in our new series on Otto Wagner. In it we discussed 19th century Vienna, an ancient city wracked by extremes of urbanisation and population boom; political radicalism and revolution. A crumbling ancient order and
*Preview* — 77.5 — Patrick Keiller Bonus Episode
This is a preview of a bonus episode we published on Patreon as part of our series of WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz', subscribe to our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/about_buildings) to subscribe and get access to our back catalogue of bonus ep
78 — WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz' — 2/2 — Locked Rooms
Our second episode on WG Sebald's 2001 novel 'Austerlitz', encountering strangely preserved rooms, nightmarish dream landscapes, gigantesque 19th century fantasies, and a mix of psychoanalysis, Perrault's Bibliothèque Nationale, Liverpool S
77 — WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz' — 1/2 — In the Nocturama
In our first episode of 2021 we discussed 'Austerlitz', the final novel by W.G. Sebald. It's the story, at the most basic level, of an architectural historian, Jacques Austerlitz, who in middle age begins to rediscover his own submerged his
*Preview* — 76.5 — Robert Moses Bonus Episode
This is a preview from our latest Patreon (https://patreon.com/about_buildings) Bonus Episode – subscribe to our Patreon (https://patreon.com/about_buildings) for just $3 a month to listen to the whole episode! Thank you to everyone who sup
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 further discuss her vision for the ideal city, based on her experiences in Greenwich Village in the 1950s. We focus on
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 of urbanism, whose magnum opus 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities' (1961) forms the backbone of our discussio
74 — Monasteries — 3/3 — Fourier, Narkomfin, La Tourette
The final episode in our series on the deep history of the monastery. Modernity has arrived and monasticism is living a strange afterlife. First, we discuss the early 19th century Utopian Socialism of Charles Fourier, whose Phalanstère take
73 — Monasteries — 2/3 — The Apostolic Life
In our second episode on Monasteries we're talking about Carthusians, millenarian religiosity, the co-option of radicalism by the mainstream, baroque splendour, Slow TV, retirement bungalows and whether Jesus owned the shirt on his back. In
72 — Monasteries — 1/3 — Cluniacs and Cistercians
In this new 3 part series we’re trying something a little bit different, we’re going to try and think about the monastery from deep time up to the present day. The monastery is an almost unique architectural typology; in its continuity, the
71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language
In our second episode on Christopher Alexander, we discuss 'A Pattern Language', the book he wrote with Murray Silverstein and Sara Ishikawa, published in 1977. The text proposes a list of patterns, derived from experience, imagination and
70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form
This is the first episode of a new series on Design Theorist, Architect, Mathematician and Computation Fan, Christopher Alexander. Alexander studied Mathematics at Cambridge University in the 1950s, then undertook the first ever PhD in Arch
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 the early noughties up to Zaha's untimely death in 2016. We attempt to reflect on Zaha's legacy as a designer, try to unde
68 — Zaha Hadid — 3/4 — Vitra to Cardiff
The third part of our ongoing series on Zaha Hadid! In this episode we discuss the early buildings of the practice, including IBA housing in Berlin, Vitra Fire Station, Spittelau Viaduct Housing, and the unbuilt competition winning design f
Bonus Unlocked — 48.5 — OMA — Bigness
UNLOCKED PATREON BONUS This unlocked bonus episode comes from our Patreon feed, where we post extra content and bonus discussions with every episode of the podcast. This bonus follows on from Episode 48, discussing the early projects of OMA
67 — Zaha Hadid — 2/4 — The Peak
In our second episode on Zaha Hadid, we're covering the rest of the 1980s, from the competition to design the Peak Leisure Centre in Hong Kong, to the Deconstructivism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The episode also inc
66 — Zaha Hadid — 1/4 — AA Days
In our first episode on Zaha Hadid, we dive into the spell-binding work of one of the most famous, controversial and interesting architects of her generation. We begin by imagining the unique atmosphere of the Architectural Association in t
