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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  • *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.

    Support the show on Patreon to receive bonus content for every show.

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    We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org
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    9 mins
  • 116 — John Soane 6 — Monuments

    116 — John Soane 6 — Monuments
    Jul 30 2024

    In the sixth part of our series on John Soane, we discussed some major monumental buildings in and around London. We began with Dulwich Picture Gallery, perhaps the first purpose-built public art gallery in the world. Then we discussed his church buildings in Marylebone, Southwark and Bethnal Green respectively.

    Watch on YouTube to see the images as we discuss them: https://youtu.be/8IFQjALMaW8

    Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.

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    39 mins
  • 115 — John Soane 5 — London Improved

    115 — John Soane 5 — London Improved
    Jul 8 2024

    In the fifth part of our series on John Soane, we discussed his designs for speculative housing developments in central London, another building in the middle of the city for the Bank of England's National Debt Redemption Office, and his various hypothetical schemes for transforming the city with a thick encrustation of Corinthian columns. We also discussed his work for the Royal Hospital Chelsea, some of which survives to this day. We talked about John Gwynne's 'London & Westminster Improved (1766) and the ongoing problem of London and Westminster's disorderly urbanism, which Soane's unbuilt schemes cannot convincingly overcome — as always, he is at his best when constrained!

    To see the images as we discuss them, check out this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_Rr-GRqsc4Y

    Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts.

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    51 mins

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No books on architecture on audible … try this!

I’ve been listening to AB+C on another platform for a number of years and had to write this review having searched audible for architecture contact and found it lacking. The perfect architecture podcast, cheers George and Luke!

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