About Buildings + Cities

By: Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture History and Culture
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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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Episodes
  • 118 — How to be a Beaux-Arts Architect

    118 — How to be a Beaux-Arts Architect
    Nov 14 2024

    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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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • 117 — John Soane 7 — The Museum

    117 — John Soane 7 — The Museum
    Oct 2 2024

    In the final episode of our series on Sir John Soane we discussed his house and museum on Lincoln's Inn Fields in the centre of London, where the museum kindly allowed us to record this episode. We also talked about Pitzhanger, his country house in Ealing, and the development of his unique collecting practice.

    To follow along with the images we discussed and see clips from our visit, check out this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/gOzIg5kB2Hg

    You can see the full length video tour of the house excerpted in this episode on our Patreon feed: https://www.patreon.com/about_buildings. Please consider subscribing to support the show!

    Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.

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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • *Preview* — Soane's Reputation Bonus Episode

    *Preview* — Soane's Reputation Bonus Episode
    Aug 27 2024

    This is a cilp from our latest Patreon bonus episode, a discussion of Soane's contemporary reputation, particularly satirical and critical writing in the periodical press, not least by his estranged son George!

    You can listen to this episode in full on our Patreon feed: https://www.patreon.com/about_buildings

    Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.

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    9 mins

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