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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cartoons from Bruno Zevi's 'The Modern Language of Architecture', our latest episode out now wherever you get your podcasts

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Out today, our latest Patreon bonus episode on 'Mechanisation Takes Command' by Sigfried Giedion: www.patreon.com/c/about_buil...

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Sigfried Giedion's favourite cast-iron structures from 'Space, Time and Architecture'

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Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Catch me in the @theguardian.com today, on the history of high-rise housing. We need to remove the distorting goggles of prejudice in order to understand Britain’s extraordinary high-rise heritage. Consider looking up afresh! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Thumping ambition – and demolition: 10 high-rises that changed modern Britain

Eyesores and scandalously unsafe? Or utopian housing for the working classes? Here are the stories and scandals behind some of the UK’s most revolutionary homes

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A contentious spread from Sigfried Giedion’s ‘Space, Time and Architecture’, a comparison between the spiral lantern of Borromini’s Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, a possible allusion to the Tower of Babel, and the dialectical helix of Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

An idiosyncratic answer to the housing crisis in post-war Europe, Jože Plečnik's 'Many Houses under One Roof' imagined a huge colonnade under which homes could be built in heterogenous harmony, balancing the tension between individuality and collectivity in mass housing

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Why not build a monastery in a skyscraper? Some of Jože Plečnik's most intriguing ecclesiastical projects were never built — find out more about his unrealised church architecture in our latest bonus episode, exclusively available for our Patreon supporters

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Jože Plečnik's Central Market for Ljubljana, an incredibly long and thin building constructed in the middle of WWII and discussed in our latest episode, out now wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts @matthewlloydr.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

There is still time to get a ticket for our tour of Poundbury with the Ross Sharpe and Hilary Satchwell for @opencity-uk.bsky.social next Saturday 7th June, with options to join us on the train from London! The weather forecast is looking promising! open-city.org.uk/events/pound...

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Poundbury on trial — Open City

Join Open City tours for a critic-led tour of Poundbury

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Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects @hillthalisaup.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

You sometimes see the elevation photographed, by great to see masterful plan & interiors

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Plečnik's Zacherlhaus, 1903–5, Vienna, built for an insecticide magnate, reflected in the creepy Lovecraftish light fittings and gleaming polished stone

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

In episode 2 of our Plečnik miniseries we discussed four of his churches: St. Bartholomew's Church, Ljubljana; Church of the Most Sacred Heart of Our Lord, Prague; Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Ljubljana and the Church of the Ascension, Bogojina youtu.be/szuyRFu0wis?...

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Jože Plečnik 2 — Four Churches — AB+C 125

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Episode 1 of our new series on Jože Plečnik is out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8S9...

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Jože Plečnik 1 — From Sezessionstil to Deep Time — AB+C 124

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The final part of our SMLXL series is out now on our Patreon — a shorter version of the episode will appear on the main feed later this week!

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

OMA's Rotterdam Kunsthal as depicted in SMLXL accompanied by cryptic quotations from Waiting for Godot

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@c1typlann3r @c1typlann3r.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Just finished this episode on SMLXL. I was at SCIarc in 97-98 and this book loomed large. Highly recommend the episode for architecture folks and B.Arch drop outs like me 🎧 📐 @about-buildings.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Photography of OMA's Villa D'Alva, from SMLXL, in a style reminiscent of music video and magazine photography of the 1990s — in our latest episode we talked about Rem Koolhaas's self-fashioning as a 'cool magazine guy' through this singular monograph...

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A typical SMLXL spread: restricted but gorgeous and greasy photography of an OMA building; titillating nudity; wry caption; margin full of quotations. Discussed in our latest episode.

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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 22/01/2025

oh hell yes I am being pandered to and I like it

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

EPISODE ONE OF OUR NEW SERIES, SMLXL BY REM KOOLHAAS, OMA AND BRUCE MAU, OUT NOW WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTS OR ON YOUTUBE

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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is fascinating and fun in equal measure! A great opportunity to rethink the past 12 months in design terms 🌃✨

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Matthew Cook @matthew-cook.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Listening to the lads at @about-buildings.bsky.social talk about the state of architecture, one comment, about most modern buildings being horrible, jumped out at me. I don't know if it is true, especially looking from outside the UK

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

What were the vibes of 2024? We did our best to talk about some of them on our latest episode, from unionisation to Tehran to AI to The Sphere! out now wherever you get your podcasts or on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/OJ1VlSKegGA?...

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2024 Architectural Vibe Check — AB+C 119

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MrAbercrombie @mrabercrombie.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

First afternoon down of a long weekend in London - lovely wander round with @about-buildings.bsky.social for company! Now trying out @honestburgers.bsky.social for a solo dinner…

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Severn Clay-Youman @caworkshop.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My grandfather studied at Yale in the 30's when it was a Beaux Arts school, and then designed more modern stuff when he got out. One of his classmates was Eero Saarinen, who gave him this banger (possibly from an archaeology class?):

Elaborately shaded perspective elevation of a fountain in Rome.

Enlargement of previous image showing Eero Saarinen's name and a stamp saying "Class A Design Yale School of the Fine Arts"

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Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Can't recommend this pod (best experienced as a vod, due to the slides), highly enough! Incredible recent series on Soane.

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About Buildings + Cities @about-buildings.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hello Blue Sky! Check out our latest episode, on the Beaux-Arts school in 1920s America, on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts: youtu.be/Jj1anRYMmLI?...

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How to be a Beaux-Arts Architect — AB+C 118

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