All Episodes
About Buildings + Cities — 162 episodes · page 2 of 2
56 — The Reactionaries — 1/3 — Interwar Anxieties
55 — Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira' — 3/3 — Good for Health, Bad for Education
54 — Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira — 2/3 — Exploding Neo-Tokyo Twice
53 — Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira — 1/3 — Radio School
52 — Nicholas Hawksmoor's Churches — 2/2
51 — Nicholas Hawksmoor's Churches — 1/2
50 — 19th c Machine Utopias — 2/2 — Looking Backwards
49 — 19th c. Machine Utopias 1/2 — Darwin Among the Machines
48 — OMA 1989 — Going Big
47 — Venturi Scott-Brown & Learning From Las Vegas
46 — Robert Venturi's 'Complexity & Contradiction' — Valid Banalities
Bonus Unlocked — 44.5 — Italian Architecture Under Fascism
45 — John Ruskin & the 19th century — Living Too Late
44 — Giovanni Michelucci — Late Style
Shoetopia! — by Stories from the Eastern West
Conversation 2.2 — Adam Caruso — Second Thoughts
Conversation 2.1 — Adam Caruso — On the night
43 — John Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice' — Shafts!
42 — John Ruskin — Rock Lover
Conversation 1 — Fred Scharmen — Zero-G Carnival
41 — '2001 – A Space Odyssey' 2/2 — Live on BBC 12
40 — '2001 – A Space Odyssey' 1/2 — Pink Upholstery in Cartesian Space
39 — Catastrophe Curves — Early 90s Computer Architecture
38 — Le Corbusier — 9 — Villa Stein & Villa Savoye
37 — Le Corbusier — 8 — Five Points Towards a New Architecture
36 — Bernard Rudofsky & 'Architecture Without Architects'
35 — 'Playtime' & 'Mon Oncle' — Modern life in Tativille
34 — Adolf Loos's 'Ornament and Crime' — Bathroom Kink
33 — Le Corbusier — 7 — Early Mass Housing
32 — Le Corbusier – 6 – Urbanism — Let's Demolish Paris (Again)
31 – Le Corbusier – 5 – Urbanism – Of Men & Asses
30 – Franz Kafka's America
29 – Le Corbusier – 4 – At Home He Feels Like A Purist
28 – Le Corbusier – 3 – Towards a New Architecture
E27 – Le Corbusier – 2 – Oyster and Breezeblock Years
E26 – Le Corbusier – 1 – Have Formwork, Will Travel
E25 – Palace of the Soviets – Wedding Cake Stalinism
24.5 – Blade Runner 2049
24 – Blade Runner – Do You Like Our Owl?
23 – Chicago Tribune – 2 of 2 – Honourable Mentions
22 – Chicago Tribune – 1 of 2 – World's Most Beautiful Office Building
21 – William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' – 2 of 2 – A Haunted House in Space
20 – William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' – 1 of 2 – Foam Mattress, No Sheets
19 – Jean Renaudie – French Concrete Utopia
18 – Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas & the End of Architecture
17 – Michelangelo – 3 of 3 – St Peters, Last Judgement, and Late Style
16 – Michelangelo – 2 of 3 – Laurentine Library and Campidoglio
15 – Michelangelo – 1 of 3 – David and the Sistine & Medici Chapels
14 – Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' – 2 of 2
E13 – Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' – 1 of 2
E12 – Aldo Rossi's Buildings – Part 2 of 2 – Venice Theatre to Disney HQ
11 – Aldo Rossi's Buildings – Part 1 of 2 – from the Partisans to the Cemetery
10 – Aldo Rossi's 'The Architecture of the City' – Interrupted Destiny
09 – The Glass Paradise – 3 of 3 – The Crystal Chain
08 – The Glass Paradise – 2 of 3 – Bruno Taut dissolves the Cities
07 – The Glass Paradise – 1 of 3 – Coloured Glass Destroys Hatred!
06 – Tate Modern – Herzog & de Meuron Before and After
E05 - Living The Roman Good Life – Pliny's Letters on the Villas
04 – Barbican Estate – Establishment Brutalism
03 – How To Run An Efficient Dystopia – Taylorism and Science Fiction Cities
02 – Strawberry Hill – Horace Walpole's Gothic Fantasies
01 – 'The English House' by Hermann Muthesius – A German Spy in the Inglenook