About Buildings + Cities
Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture, History and Culture
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.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the About Buildings + Cities podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Delirious New York
A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Rem Koolhaas
#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Towards a new architecture
Le Corbusier
#3 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Le Corbusier
A Life
Nicholas Fox Weber
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
SMLXL
Rem Koolhaas
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Le Corbusier: Le Grand
Jean Louis Cohen
#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Vers une architecture
Le Corbusier
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rock Crystal
Gottfried Keller
Adelbert Stifter
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Road to Wigan Pier
George Orwell
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The study of architectural design
John F. Harbeson
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Gerd Albers
Jane Jacobs
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A pattern language
Towns, Buildings, Construction
Nax Jacobsohn
Murray Silverstein
Ingrid Fiksdahl-King
Shlomo Angel
Max Jacobson
Sara Ishikawa
Christopher Alexander
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The architecture of community
Léon Krier
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The rings of Saturn
W. G. Sebald
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Modern Painting
Le Corbusier
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
