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

29.10.2025 08:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sigfried Giedion's 'Space, Time and Architecture' Part 2 — AB+C 131 YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities

Discussed in our latest episode: youtu.be/Z2NCz-xl7V8?...

17.10.2025 08:19 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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

17.10.2025 08:19 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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

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...

01.10.2025 10:28 👍 48 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

Sigfried Giedion's 'Space, Time and Architecture' Part 1 — AB+C 130 YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities

Discussed in our latest episode, out now: youtu.be/89sjkU8G2bw?...

01.10.2025 09:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

01.10.2025 09:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We discussed this project and several other Plečnik deep cuts in our latest Patreon bonus episode, out now for supporters: www.patreon.com/about_buildi...

07.08.2025 13:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

07.08.2025 13:09 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

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15.07.2025 09:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

15.07.2025 09:32 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Jože Plečnik 5 — The River & the City — AB+C 128 YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities

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09.07.2025 12:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

09.07.2025 12:01 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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

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...

30.05.2025 09:27 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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

15.05.2025 09:43 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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

15.05.2025 09:38 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

Jože Plečnik 2 — Four Churches — AB+C 125 YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities

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?...

08.05.2025 09:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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28.04.2025 07:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jože Plečnik 1 — From Sezessionstil to Deep Time — AB+C 124 YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities

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...

28.04.2025 07:24 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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26.03.2025 13:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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!

26.03.2025 13:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

who agrees?

06.03.2025 10:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rem Koolhaas's SMLXL Part 3 (L) — AB+C 122 YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities

Check out our latest episode for a discussion of each of these projects, which Luke called some of the best buildings ever proposed! youtu.be/cuzdCPh-iIs?...

05.03.2025 09:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0