About Buildings + Cities
Hosted by [Host Name] and Luke Jones and George Gingell · Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture, History and Culture
4.7from 525 ratings
- 161
- Episodes
- 31
- Transcribed
- 525
- Ratings
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- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 246K
- YouTube views
About About Buildings + Cities
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.
- Publisher
- Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture, History and Culture
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Aug 2016
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
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31 of 161 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
141 — Bruno Zevi's 'The Modern Language of Architecture'
31 Jul 2026
140 — John Summerson's 'The Classical Language of Architecture'
17 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
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141 — Bruno Zevi's 'The Modern Language of Architecture'
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so he sort of stakes out that position. And it's sort of an observed thing that architects in Italy are starting to question and kind of create these kind of counterpositions to orthodox modernism from quite early, from the 50s. And there's a Rainer Bannum essay called The Italian Retreat from Modern Architecture, which is all, again, is from the 50s and is all about the kind of observation which Bannam is very against at that point, and he refers to as a kind of infantile regression. So it's a sort of an observable thing, and I think that all of that is, and we've talked about Aldo Rossi, who sort of joins that from the 60s onwards. […]
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- 246,435
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- 4.7 / 5
- 276 ratings
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- 4.8 / 5
- 249 ratings
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- Engagement
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