Out today, our latest Patreon bonus episode on 'Mechanisation Takes Command' by Sigfried Giedion: www.patreon.com/c/about_buil...

Sigfried Giedion's favourite cast-iron structures from 'Space, Time and Architecture'

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 Britain’s extraordinary high-rise heritage. Consider looking up afresh! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A contentious spread from Sigfried Giedion’s ‘Space, Time and Architecture’, a comparison between the spiral lantern of Borromini’s Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, a possible allusion to the Tower of Babel, and the dialectical helix of Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International

An idiosyncratic answer to the housing crisis in post-war Europe, Jože Plečnik'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

Why not build a monastery in a skyscraper? Some of Jože Plečnik's most intriguing ecclesiastical projects were never built — find out more about his unrealised church architecture in our latest bonus episode, exclusively available for our Patreon supporters

Jože Plečnik'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

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...

You sometimes see the elevation photographed, by great to see masterful plan & interiors

Plečnik's Zacherlhaus, 1903–5, Vienna, built for an insecticide magnate, reflected in the creepy Lovecraftish light fittings and gleaming polished stone

In episode 2 of our Plečnik 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?...

Episode 1 of our new series on Jože Plečnik is out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8S9...

The final part of our SMLXL series is out now on our Patreon — a shorter version of the episode will appear on the main feed later this week!

who agrees?

SMLXL, Part 3, LARGE, or BIGNESS, out now

OMA's Rotterdam Kunsthal as depicted in SMLXL accompanied by cryptic quotations from Waiting for Godot

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 🎧 📐 @about-buildings.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Thanks so much @alexbozikovic.bsky.social — check out part one of our SMLXL series here: youtu.be/ljgaQQz-TpY?...

Photography of OMA's Villa D'Alva, from SMLXL, in a style reminiscent of music video and magazine photography of the 1990s — in our latest episode we talked about Rem Koolhaas's self-fashioning as a 'cool magazine guy' through this singular monograph...

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.

oh hell yes I am being pandered to and I like it

EPISODE ONE OF OUR NEW SERIES, SMLXL BY REM KOOLHAAS, OMA AND BRUCE MAU, OUT NOW WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS OR ON YOUTUBE

This is fascinating and fun in equal measure! A great opportunity to rethink the past 12 months in design terms 🌃✨

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

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?...

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 dinner…

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?):

Can't recommend this pod (best experienced as a vod, due to the slides), highly enough! Incredible recent series on Soane.

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?...