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142 — Charles Jencks's 'The Language of Post-Modern Architecture'

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141 — Bruno Zevi's 'The Modern Language of Architecture'

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140 — John Summerson's 'The Classical Language of Architecture'

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*Preview* — Piranesi's Heirs Bonus Episode

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139 — Piranesi 4 — The Prisons

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138 — Piranesi 3 — Ichnographiam Campii Martii

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137 — Piranesi 2 — The Antiquities of Rome

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136 — Piranesi 1 — Prima Parte

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*Preview* Show and Tell Bonus — Santa Maria del Naranco & Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park

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135 — Show and Tell — Enigmatic Ancient Pavilions

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134 — William Golding's 'The Spire'

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133 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 4/4

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*Preview* — Giedion's 'Mechanisation Takes Command' Bonus Episodes

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132 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 3/4

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131 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 2/4

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130 — Sigfried Giedion's Space, Time and Architecture — 1/4

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*Patreon Bonus Unlocked* — WG Sebald's Rings of Saturn

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*Patreon Bonus Unlocked* — Otto Wagner's Unbuilt Projects

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*Preview* — 129.5 Plečnik Finale Bonus Episode

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129 — Jože Plečnik 6 — Slovene Acropolis

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128 — Jože Plečnik 5 — The River & the City

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127 — Jože Plečnik 4 — Ljubljana Façades and Insurance Palaces

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126 — Jože Plečnik 3 — More Churches and a Cemetery

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125 — Jože Plečnik 2 — Four Churches

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124 — Jože Plečnik 1 — From Sezessionstil to Deep Time

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123 — Rem Koolhaas’s SMLXL — 4/4

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122 — Rem Koolhaas's SMLXL — 3/4

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*Preview* — SMLXL Dictionary Bonus Episode

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121 — Rem Koolhaas's SMLXL — 2/4

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120 — Rem Koolhaas's SMLXL — 1/4

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119 — Architectural Vibe Check

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118 — How to be a Beaux-Arts Architect

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117 — John Soane 7 — The Museum

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*Preview* — Soane's Reputation Bonus Episode

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116 — John Soane 6 — Monuments

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115 — John Soane 5 — London Improved

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114 — John Soane 4 — Westminster

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113 — John Soane 3 — The Bank of England

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112 — John Soane 2 — Rustic / Classical

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111 — John Soane 1 — 'Visions of Early Fancy'

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110 — Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York — 3/3

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109 — Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York — 2/3

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108 — Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York — 1/3

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Bonus Unlocked — 97.5 — Neom

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107 – Stewart Brand's 'How Buildings Learn' — "What Happens After They're Built"

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106 — Antoni Gaudí 7 — La Sagrada Familia

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105 — Antoni Gaudí 6 — Colonia Güell

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104 — Antoni Gaudí 5 —Güell Projects

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103 — Antoni Gaudí 4 — Casas Calvet, Batlló & Milà

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102 — Antoni Gaudí 3 — Going Gothic

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101 — Antoni Gaudí 2 — Palau Güell

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100 — Antoni Gaudí 1 — Bad at School

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99 — Philip K. Dick's Ubik — Gnostic Paranoia

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98 — The Primitive Hut — The Design of the First Building

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97 — Richard Rogers' Reith Lecture — Cities for a Small Planet

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96 — Andrea Palladio 6 — Venetian Churches

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95 — Andrea Palladio 5 — Quattro Libri

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94 — Andrea Palladio 4 — Civic Buildings

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93 — Andrea Palladio 3 — Palladian Palazzi

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92 — Andrea Palladio 2 — Greatest Villas

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91 — Andrea Palladio 1 — The Most Imitated Architect in History

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90 — Carlo Scarpa — 4/4 — All I Want Is A Pharoah

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89 — Carlo Scarpa — 3/4 — Castelvecchio, Invented History

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88 — Carlo Scarpa — 2/4 — Querini Stampalia, Venetian Sci-Fi

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87 — Carlo Scarpa — 1/4 — Not Every Architect is an Artist

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86 — Ian Nairn — 3/3 — Nairn on TV

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85 — Ian Nairn — 2/3 — Nairn's London

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84 — Ian Nairn — 1/3 — Subtopia

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83 —Otto Wagner — 5/5 — Proto-Modernist

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82 — Otto Wagner — 4/5 — Secession

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*Preview* — 81.5 — Klimt

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81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn

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80 — Otto Wagner — 2/5 — The Style Question

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79 — Otto Wagner — 1/5 — Ringstraße Rent Palaces

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*Preview* — 77.5 — Patrick Keiller Bonus Episode

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78 — WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz' — 2/2 — Locked Rooms

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77 — WG Sebald's 'Austerlitz' — 1/2 — In the Nocturama

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*Preview* — 76.5 — Robert Moses Bonus Episode

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76 — Jane Jacobs — 2/2 — Unslumming and Gentrification

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75 — Jane Jacobs — 1/2 — Eyes on the Street

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74 — Monasteries — 3/3 — Fourier, Narkomfin, La Tourette

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73 — Monasteries — 2/3 — The Apostolic Life

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72 — Monasteries — 1/3 — Cluniacs and Cistercians

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71 — Christopher Alexander — 2/2 — Pattern Language

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70 — Christopher Alexander — 1/2 —Notes on the Synthesis of Form

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69 — Zaha Hadid — 4/4 — The Parametric Years

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68 — Zaha Hadid — 3/4 — Vitra to Cardiff

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Bonus Unlocked — 48.5 — OMA — Bigness

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67 — Zaha Hadid — 2/4 — The Peak

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66 — Zaha Hadid — 1/4 — AA Days

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65 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 3/3 — Nostalghia and The Sacrifice

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64 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 2/3 — Stalker

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

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

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61 — Leon Battista Alberti — 1/2 — De Re Aedificatoria

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60 — Reyner Banham — 2/2 — Design By Choice

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59 — Reyner Banham — 1/2 — Science for Kicks

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

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

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