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A podcast about architecture, history, literature, science fiction and ideas

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Holly Smith@holsmith.bsky.social · 11mo 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 Britain’s extraordinary high-rise heritage. Consider looking up afresh! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Thumping ambition – 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 UK’s most revolutionary homes

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About Buildings + Cities@about-buildings.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

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About Buildings + Cities@about-buildings.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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About Buildings + Cities@about-buildings.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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About Buildings + Cities@about-buildings.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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Severn Clay-Youman@caworkshop.bsky.social · 2y 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?):

Elaborately shaded perspective elevation of a fountain in Rome.Enlargement of previous image showing Eero Saarinen's name and a stamp saying "Class A Design Yale School of the Fine Arts"