Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture, History and Culture
A podcast about architecture, buildings and cities, from the distant past to the present day. Plus detours into technology, film, fiction, comics, drawings, and...
This is a preview of a bonus episode available on our Patreon feed, please support the show on Patreon for full access: https://www.patreon.com/c/about_buildings
In this bonus we talked about the book-within-the-book, the series of quotations and definitions which run the breadth of the alphabet through SMLXL. It includes the usual Koolhaasian mixture of high and low culture, actress's memoirs, advertising, technical manuals, pornography and even Luke's dad!
Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.
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121 — Rem Koolhaas's SMLXL — 2/4
In episode 2 of our series on SMLXL by Rem Koolhaas, OMA and Bruce Mau, we talked about 'M', including a Panopticon prison, an extension for the Dutch Parliament, the Netherlands Dance Theatre, an unbuilt hotel in Morocco and the Rotterdam Kunsthal.
Follow along with images on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cqlABdVpeZ8
Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.
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120 — Rem Koolhaas's SMLXL — 1/4
SMLXL (1995) was the brainchild of Rem Koolhaas, principal of OMA, rhetorically and stylistically a rejection of the norms of architectural monographs, this 1400 page silver brick was one of the most iconic art books of the 1990s. It is a strange piece of architectural publishing, and very 90s, a mixture of post-modern literary sensibilities, greasy full bleed photography and polemic against Koolhaas's teachers and peers. We will talk about the book part-by-part over the next 4 episodes, with bonus content for Patreon subscribers.
Catch this episode on YouTube to see the slides: https://youtu.be/ljgaQQz-TpY
Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.
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119 — Architectural Vibe Check
In our last episode of 2024 we thought we would do something a little bit different, and talk about where we think architectural culture is at right now, an archaeology of the present, a dissection of the Now. We took some suggestions and requests from our Patrons, and followed them from recent discoveries at the National Gallery to Kengo Kuma and the Las Vegas Sphere.
Some of the stories we talked about:
National Gallery:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/08/27/sainsbury-wing-contractors-find-1990-letter-from-donor-anticipating-their-demolition-of-false-columns
Architectural unionisation: https://jacobin.com/2024/10/bernheimer-architecture-union-faect-cio
Matt's essay about AI: https://recessed.space/00186-AI-neural-networks-architecture-AI
Thank you to everyone for watching, listening, reviewing, subscribing and supporting us on Patreon this year! We will be back in January with a new series on Koolhaas's S,M,L,XL.
Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.
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118 — How to be a Beaux-Arts Architect
In this episode we discussed The Study of Architectural Design (1926) by John F. Harbeson, a remarkable guide to the Beaux-Arts method of architectural education, with its many idiosyncratic terms of art and the astonishing drawings produced as part of its relentless programme of competition exercises.
Do you know your Parti from your Poché? Do you know your way around a Class A? Does Mosaic leave you baffled? Look no further for a guide to all things Beaux Arts.
You can follow along with the slides on our YouTube: https://youtu.be/Jj1anRYMmLI
Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.
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A podcast about architecture, buildings and cities, from the distant past to the present day. Plus detours into technology, film, fiction, comics, drawings, and the dimly imagined future.
With Luke Jones and George Gingell.
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