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I loved this podcast!! Thank you guys. Greetings from a Mexican in Germany

Thank you very much for that exploration of the Sagrada Familia, I remember visiting it about 40 years ago and I loved the church chime tune that was produced by it. Seemed a very fitting soundscape. I wonder if it still rings out. Have you done a podcast on Steiner's Gotheanum in Dornach yet? Similar to S G in some ways....

❤❤ great episode ! thank u

Yall Aint No Gangsters. Facts.

I know who we're supposed to lionise as the hero but Yvonne Gallis, alcoholic ex-prostitute and good time girl is STILL way out of the league of skinny Sid Little impersonator and 'absolute shit' Corb. I wonder what first attracted her to the millionaire architect?

Thank you. That’s most kind. I’ve now managed to establish contact with Luke Jones now too so I’ll be in touch.

Another excellent podcast wherein Luke and George manage to throw out the bathwater and still make fun of the baby. It's interesting (perhaps) that Corb was writing at a time when the cinema WAS a superior place to live compared to the home, for many, which doubtless added to its attraction. On another note, I look forward to the time when police officers, instead of pulling us over and inquiring whether we are in fact Lewis Hamilton, tap on the windows of our Ford Fiesta, parked in a lay-by following a marital split, and ask us whether we are in fact Le Corbusier and 'is this truly a machine for living in, sir?' In Byzantium, paricularly in Constantinople, churches were stripped of decoration in the period of iconoclasm (thirty years in the ninth century) but the restoration of Orthodoxy embraced the icon and visual finery which it has not lost since.

A dazzling hour! At this time of universal dumbing down how inspiring it is to hear such a sophisticated and knowledgeable conversation! You have brightened my day up considerably! Having written a play about Soane and Gandy and am now completing a novel about them too, I would like to contact George Gingell but finding information about him has totally defeated me. Does anyone have any advice?

Excellent podcast- thank you.

A question: how much can and do architects protect their designs to prevent intellectual theft when submitting for competition? I am reminded that the design of Birmingham Town Hall was open to competition and I believe the city elders used this as a means of distilling their views as to what they wanted- this must be devastating and potentially damaging for the losing competitors.

Great stuff as usual George and Luke- thank you. I'm glad you mentioned the skyscrapers' likeness to Gothic steeples but George's reference to the extended plan behind the tower of Mead Howells' and Hood's winning entry is suggestive of a nave in these secular temples to business. The phallic symbolism of skyscrapers is a tired cliche but the resemblance to a stack of coins reaching vertically contrasts with the Palladian spread of old money which came from the land.

Birmingham UK, like other cities, has its malls and even a 'Resorts World'... this is very telling, I think. Our junkspaces are consumer-fuelled resorts where you're not supposed to stay, just visit and spend; the gangs of youths who loiter and gawp but don't buy are just tomorrow's junkies. I've never been but I imagine Florida to be a junkspace state. Take away the buck and these spaces are meaningless. Horrible.

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Thank you Luke and George... looking forward to the freeing up of impending death!! Great podcasts: intelligent, elucidating, funny and respectful- a genuine achievement which makes spinning plates look a piece of piss.

If I can add my six pennyworth, these podcasts are both illuminating and entertaining- you are always critical but never facile in your criticism. You tear down the pompous but leave standing the essential quality of the architecture you analyse. I have found them excellent listening and very educative without becoming pedagogical. Good work!

Brilliant stuff as usual- thank you George and Luke

Luke Jones and George Gingell: deconstructing bullshit since 2021

Thank you George and Luke for another fascinating podcast, and for the new word (for me)- aleatoric design. I am very old and I still believe in vertical truths as opposed to the horizontal free-for-all that is postmodernism but this doesn't mean that every building has to be logical or even metaphorical for me to be happy. BUT I am a wee bit averse to architects who seem to be contrarians and cause nightmares for bricklayers. Keep up the very good work!

You guys should read a story about Peter Eisenman and Villa Pisani in Montagnana when he was travelling with Colin Rowe in 1961. It will be helpful for you to understand architecture of Palladio.

Another great series from Luke and George- I'm visiting the Soane museum soon, so this provided much of the backstory of the man and his work. I like your comments about how he was adept at 'fudging' but agree with you that this is a sign of the flexible, imaginative architect rather than one who has somehow failed- Palladio did something similar in his town houses, I believe. And your observation about constraint bringing out the best in Soane is spot on- too much licence and creativity dries up (eh Frankie Boyle?). A great three-parter.

The Barbican is a weird one; magnificent architecture in the towers and slabs but fundamentally unlovely- maybe because the residents are bourgeois and joyless. I think it's post-Brutalist in as much as it coquettishly exposes its pilotis, the concrete has been (expensively) prettified and it feels tinkered with, as if after a series of five-year-plans. I still love it but I don't love it like I love the bold and lived-in constructions in Belgrade. A great podcast though- thank you Luke and George

George and Luke deconstruct Dirteen Eighty Four, among others ... this is wonderful stuff, and a breath of fresh air.

A superb series- thank you. You have managed to pull off the near impossible by presenting a fully informed and fascinating subject with wit and humanity- I loved it. A suggestion for the future if you haven't already tacked it would be Byzantium; the political and cultural significance of the New Rome being outlived by the new New Rome of Venice, which plundered much of the treasure of Constantinople, is intriguing and might even have echoes in some of the architectural features of the Serenissima.

This is my second time watching this series (its that good) and I just wanted to say that I love the use of music, and I think it'd be great to use it more often, as it seems to be an excellent feature lost in later series. Love your work!

This is amazing - your understanding of, and insights into, this complex building that hasn't existed for 100 years have blown me away. I used to work at the Royal Pavilion, and a local VR modelling enthusiast was reconstructing the now-missing parts of the site from George IV's day. I wonder if he would tackle this challenge...

McKim Mead and White were obviously fans.

I absolutely love the pink poche' sections. Thanks my friends. As always, I am enjoying and learning with each episode. Great stuff

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Very interesting thank you.

I really enjoy these videos but... please don't play with your feet on camera! With this habit you'll never make it to the next level! ;)

You have managed to bore me

Love your podcast! The Le Corbusier series saved my butt while trying to read his polemic. I found him infuriating but learning from you guys what made him who he was allowed his writing to be more palatable. Keep it up!

Deep dive into Soaneanism. Brilliant. Interesting comparison to Adolf Loos. You briefly discussed "Ornament and Crime" in an early show, but Loos would be a good full show, suitably twisted story for your like, set in the midst of the Fall of the Habsburg Empire. I'd love to hear your take on him and his work.

Thank you for covering this topic

Another great series, you guys do amazingly educative and entertaining work! Can't wait to see more.

This is really good, I enjoyed part 1 and part 2 is equally engaging. I have one criticism (I blush) the presentation would have been much stronger with the use of some slides, 1 picture is worth a 1,000 words as they say. Apologies for the criticism, the presentation is very informative and interesting. Again, thank you!

So interesting. I am a fan of Hawksmoor and last time in London I wished his churches in the East End. Thanks

Now I am sad about the Bank of England, again.

Joseph Rykwert- ‘The First Moderns’. Superb book.

Another great video guys. Would love to see a video on Villalpando and his reconstruction of the Temple using the classical orders as designed by God.

Great video guys. The windows in the Villa Godi reminds me of the waterside elevation of Chiswick House with its minimal use of decoration with a large area of wall punctuated only by a serliana and four windows with no aprons or decoration.

Piranesi’s prison scenes very important in the architecture of Soane around the dome in his home at Holborn.

fucking fantastic! I discovered jane today and your commentary will save me much time in coming to an accurate conclusion on the benefits, misperceptions and innacuracies, embellishments and all the other interesting bits that make up her theses on cities. growing up in todays cities i can totally understand a growing religiousity behind her work, and again your two episodes provide great, healthy, nuanced perceptions of her ideas that set me on the right path forward as i begin to read her stuff. thankyou!

Thank you for a cozy atmosphere

Wonderful to see you two back in the saddles (or, couch). You have been missed. John Soane- lovely stuff.

Woohoo! Welcome back. I have missed your inspired and learned sessions.

So happy you guys are back !!!!!!!

Absolutely loved listening to this! This series was the first time I've ever heard of you guys and I cannot wait to see what else I can learn from you. Thank you so much for the time you put into this!

Hello, I only discovered this podcast lat week when looking up Palladio and it is very interesting. I see you also looked at the Fountainhead. Did you look at the 1936 movie 'Things to Come' or would you consider doing an episode about it?