90 — Carlo Scarpa — 4/4 — All I Want Is A Pharoah
We round off our series on Carlo Scarpa with two projects for Italian consumer electronics dynasties — the Olivetti corporation, for whom he designed ...
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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.
89 — Carlo Scarpa — 3/4 — Castelvecchio, Invented History
The Castelvecchio Museum (1959-73) in Verona is an elaborate spatial narrative, weaving together historic structures and ingenious design elements to ...
88 — Carlo Scarpa — 2/4 — Querini Stampalia, Venetian Sci-Fi
We talked about Carlo Scarpa's work at the Querini Stampalia foundation (1959-63), a palazzo-museum in Venice. Scarpa's interventions are focussed on ...
87 — Carlo Scarpa — 1/4 — Not Every Architect is an Artist
In our first episode on Carlo Scarpa, we're trying something new! We've made a video to accompany the episode that you can find on our YouTube Channel...
86 — Ian Nairn — 3/3 — Nairn on TV
In the final episode in our series on Ian Nairn, we discussed the 1967 book 'Britain's Changing Towns' and the BBC television work that has granted Na...
85 — Ian Nairn — 2/3 — Nairn's London
In the second episode of our series on Ian Nairn, we talked about Nairn's London, the 1966 architectural guide to the city which was the critic's magn...
84 — Ian Nairn — 1/3 — Subtopia
The first episode in our new series on the work of architectural critic Ian Nairn. In this first episode we discussed his breakout work for the Archit...
83 —Otto Wagner — 5/5 — Proto-Modernist
Our final episode on Otto Wagner considers his relationship to modernism, asking whether Wagner was a predecessor to modernism. We discussed his most ...
82 — Otto Wagner — 4/5 — Secession
In the penultimate episode in our series on Otto Wagner, we discussed Wagner's most famous projects, the art nouveau works produced at the height of t...
*Preview* — 81.5 — Klimt
This is a preview of our latest bonus episode on Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession, get access to the full episode on our Patreon. In this episode...