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A podcast about architecture, history, literature, science fiction and ideas
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Holly Smith
12 days ago
Catch me in the
@theguardian.com
today, on the history of high-rise housing. We need to remove the distorting goggles of prejudice in order to understand Britainās extraordinary high-rise heritage. Consider looking up afresh!
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Thumping ambition ā and demolition: 10 high-rises that changed modern Britain
Eyesores and scandalously unsafe? Or utopian housing for the working classes? Here are the stories and scandals behind some of the UKās most revolutionary homes
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/01/thumping-ambition-and-demolition-10-high-rises-that-changed-modern-britain
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A contentious spread from Sigfried Giedionās āSpace, Time and Architectureā, a comparison between the spiral lantern of Borrominiās SantāIvo alla Sapienza, a possible allusion to the Tower of Babel, and the dialectical helix of Tatlinās Monument to the Third International
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An idiosyncratic answer to the housing crisis in post-war Europe, Jože PleÄnik's 'Many Houses under One Roof' imagined a huge colonnade under which homes could be built in heterogenous harmony, balancing the tension between individuality and collectivity in mass housing
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Why not build a monastery in a skyscraper? Some of Jože PleÄnik's most intriguing ecclesiastical projects were never built ā find out more about his unrealised church architecture in our latest bonus episode, exclusively available for our Patreon supporters
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Jože PleÄnik's Central Market for Ljubljana, an incredibly long and thin building constructed in the middle of WWII and discussed in our latest episode, out now wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube
3 months ago
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Matthew Lloyd Roberts
5 months ago
There is still time to get a ticket for our tour of Poundbury with the Ross Sharpe and Hilary Satchwell for
@opencity-uk.bsky.social
next Saturday 7th June, with options to join us on the train from London! The weather forecast is looking promising!
open-city.org.uk/events/pound...
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Poundbury on trial ā Open City
Join Open City tours for a critic-led tour of Poundbury
https://open-city.org.uk/events/poundbury-2025
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Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects
5 months ago
You sometimes see the elevation photographed, by great to see masterful plan & interiors
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PleÄnik's Zacherlhaus, 1903ā5, Vienna, built for an insecticide magnate, reflected in the creepy Lovecraftish light fittings and gleaming polished stone
5 months ago
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In episode 2 of our PleÄnik miniseries we discussed four of his churches: St. Bartholomew's Church, Ljubljana; Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord, Prague; Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Ljubljana and the Church of the Ascension, Bogojina
youtu.be/szuyRFu0wis?...
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Jože PleÄnik 2 ā Four Churches ā AB+C 125
YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities
https://youtu.be/szuyRFu0wis?si=za6_q2BV9WyKHwKE
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Episode 1 of our new series on Jože PleÄnik is out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8S9...
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Jože PleÄnik 1 ā From Sezessionstil to Deep Time ā AB+C 124
YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8S9gA6_j6M
6 months ago
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The final part of our SMLXL series is out now on our Patreon ā a shorter version of the episode will appear on the main feed later this week!
7 months ago
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who agrees?
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SMLXL, Part 3, LARGE, or BIGNESS, out now
7 months ago
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OMA's Rotterdam Kunsthal as depicted in SMLXL accompanied by cryptic quotations from Waiting for Godot
8 months ago
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@c1typlann3r
9 months ago
Just finished this episode on SMLXL. I was at SCIarc in 97-98 and this book loomed large. Highly recommend the episode for architecture folks and B.Arch drop outs like me š§ š
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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Thanks so much
@alexbozikovic.bsky.social
ā check out part one of our SMLXL series here:
youtu.be/ljgaQQz-TpY?...
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Photography of OMA's Villa D'Alva, from SMLXL, in a style reminiscent of music video and magazine photography of the 1990s ā in our latest episode we talked about Rem Koolhaas's self-fashioning as a 'cool magazine guy' through this singular monograph...
9 months ago
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A typical SMLXL spread: restricted but gorgeous and greasy photography of an OMA building; titillating nudity; wry caption; margin full of quotations. Discussed in our latest episode.
9 months ago
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9 months ago
oh hell yes I am being pandered to and I like it
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EPISODE ONE OF OUR NEW SERIES, SMLXL BY REM KOOLHAAS, OMA AND BRUCE MAU, OUT NOW WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS OR ON YOUTUBE
9 months ago
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Merlin Fulcher
9 months ago
This is fascinating and fun in equal measure! A great opportunity to rethink the past 12 months in design terms šāØ
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Matthew Cook
9 months ago
Listening to the lads at
@about-buildings.bsky.social
talk about the state of architecture, one comment, about most modern buildings being horrible, jumped out at me. I don't know if it is true, especially looking from outside the UK
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What were the vibes of 2024? We did our best to talk about some of them on our latest episode, from unionisation to Tehran to AI to The Sphere! out now wherever you get your podcasts or on our YouTube channel:
youtu.be/OJ1VlSKegGA?...
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2024 Architectural Vibe Check ā AB+C 119
YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities
https://youtu.be/OJ1VlSKegGA?si=myDw2mfaHDX2nvZ5
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MrAbercrombie
10 months ago
First afternoon down of a long weekend in London - lovely wander round with
@about-buildings.bsky.social
for company! Now trying out
@honestburgers.bsky.social
for a solo dinnerā¦
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Severn Clay-Youman
11 months ago
My grandfather studied at Yale in the 30's when it was a Beaux Arts school, and then designed more modern stuff when he got out. One of his classmates was Eero Saarinen, who gave him this banger (possibly from an archaeology class?):
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Jo Nightingale
11 months ago
Can't recommend this pod (best experienced as a vod, due to the slides), highly enough! Incredible recent series on Soane.
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Hello Blue Sky! Check out our latest episode, on the Beaux-Arts school in 1920s America, on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts:
youtu.be/Jj1anRYMmLI?...
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How to be a Beaux-Arts Architect ā AB+C 118
YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities
https://youtu.be/Jj1anRYMmLI?si=axmhy9xV24XStbLH
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