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  1. 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: Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986). Both films see a continued intensification of the directorial moves that Tarkovsky ha

  2. 64 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 2/3 — Stalker

    In our second episode on Soviet director and auteur Andrei Tarkovsky we discuss his most well known film and possibly his magnum opus, Stalker (1979). The last film that Tarkovsky made whilst living in the Soviet Union, Stalker is loosely a

  3. 63 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1/3 — Setting the Stage

    In this first part of our new series on legendary Russian director Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky we discuss his early films: Ivan's Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972) and Mirror (1975). We will also be releasing a Patreon

  4. 62 — Leon Battista Alberti — 2/2 — Building the Quattrocento

    62 — Leon Battista Alberti — 2/2 — Building the Quattrocento Having discussed his magnum opus, 'De Re Aedificatoria' in the last episode, here we discuss the curious collection of buildings that Alberti designed across Italy over the course

  5. 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 Italian Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti, and his 1485 blockbuster publication, On the Art of Building in Ten Books. After Vitruvius' original

  6. 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, his theories of Megastructure, and his later projects on American industrial vernacular ('Concrete Atlantis') and his unp

  7. 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, scenester and prophet of the future, with a flair for iconoclastic and pugilistic writing. In this first episode we dis

  8. 58 — The Reactionaries — 3/3 — The Empire Strikes Back

    In our final episode on Reactionaries, we explore the politics and theory that underpinned the reactionary rejection of Modernism in the 70s and 80s. We discuss Prince Charles' architectural interventions and the theories of our future king

  9. 57 — The Reactionaries — 2/3 — Caesar's Palace without the Fun

    In our second episode on Reactionaries, we explore the rejection of modernism by traditionalist architects and theorists in England after the Second World War. Modernism became the hegemonic architectural and urbanist mode in England during

  10. Conversation 3 — Dulwich Picture Gallery — Soane in The Colour Palace

    This is the audio from our live panel discussion at Dulwich Picture Gallery, where we were joined by the gallery's assistant curator, Helen Hillyard, and Neba Sere, founder of WUH Architecture and co-director of Black Females in Architectur

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