ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
With Luke Jones and George Gingell.
Update frequency:
every 26 days
Average audio length:
66 minutes
English
United States
163 episodes
since Aug. 24, 2016
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~38.30% of listeners are from United States.
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US
38.30%
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GB
14.95%
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SG
8.62%
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CA
4.76%
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AU
3.90%
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DE
3.90%
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BE
2.52%
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SA
2.47%
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IE
1.95%
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ES
1.71%
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NL
1.38%
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IT
1.04%
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CH
1.00%
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SK
0.95%
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IN
0.90%
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IL
0.80%
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NZ
0.80%
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MX
0.71%
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JP
0.66%
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VE
0.61%
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FR
0.61%
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TR
0.57%
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BR
0.57%
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PT
0.57%
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ZA
0.47%
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AT
0.47%
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NO
0.42%
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PL
0.33%
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DK
0.28%
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SE
0.28%
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CZ
0.23%
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TW
0.23%
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MY
0.23%
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CR
0.19%
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PH
0.14%
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AE
0.14%
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HK
0.14%
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RU
0.14%
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CL
0.14%
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JO
0.14%
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HU
0.14%
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TT
0.14%
Others
1.50%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. real-time
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In the final episode of our Lanuage Trilogy we talked about Charles Jencks's 'The Language of Post-Modern Architecture', first published in 1977, the book and argument developed over the course of the 1980s as ideas about post-modernism as an architectural style and set of principles formalised. We…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In the second episode of our 'Language' trilogy, we discussed Bruno Zevi's 'The Modern Language of Architecture', first published in Italian as 'Il linguaggio moderno dell'architettura' in 1978, partly in response to Summerson's 'The Classical Language of Architecture' the subject of our previous e…
In this episode, the first of a trilogy, we talked about John Summerson's best-selling 1965 book 'The Classical Language of Architecture', developed out of a series of lectures he gave to the BBC. We talk about Summerson, one of the titans of mid-20th century British architectural history, his atti…
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In this penultimate bonus episode in our Piranesi series we talked about Piranesian vibes in literary and artistic culture, including forays into …
In the final part of our Piranesi miniseries we talked about his only building, the church of Santa Maria del Priorato, his theoretical writings, his proposals for interior design and furniture and his Carceri, the imaginary prisons which defined his legacy.
If you'd like to follow along with the …
In the penultimate episode of our series on Giovanni Battista Piranesi, we discussed his Ichnographia Campii Martii, one of his stranged and most inventive projects, a vast reconstruction of Ancient Rome, which blends together a little bit of archaeology with a massive injection of fantasy, plaster…
In the second episode of our series on Giovanni Battista Piranesi, we discussed his multi-volume project, Le Antichità Romane de' tempo della prima Repubblica e dei primi imperatori, a deep study and representation of Roman Antiquity, channelled through his vivid imagination, mixing rigorous archae…
In the first part of our new series on Piranesi we discussed his upbringing and background in Venice, his earliest travels to Rome and first work with Giuseppe Vasi and Tiepolo. We talked a little about the historical and cultural context of Piranesi’s work, before getting stuck into his Prima part…
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Taking cues from the 'Show and Tell' main episode, Editor Matt joined us for a bonus and brought along a couple of interesting buildings to discuss. The first, Santa Maria del Nara…
This episode takes a new format! Instead of fitting into a larger series or a particular theme, Luke and George simply chose two interesting pieces of architecture each that they wanted to discuss and draw out particular ideas or themes from. Let us know if you liked this format, and we will consid…
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