Ep 168: What Are Houses For?, ft. James Haverty Smith
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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:
– Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier
– Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remix by Ian Parker
– Ep 167: Poetry Magazine, October 2024
– My appearance on Drunk as Poet on Payday
– Tesla Cybertruck (and the phony DeLorean logo on the one we saw)
– Paradise Lost by John Milton
– Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace (the perfect courtyard)
– Jorge Silvetti (the professor who assigned the analysis of the Villa La Rotonda)
– Villa La Rotonda (the most famous building in the world)
– Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
– Notre-Dame du Haut (Le Corbusier’s chapel in Ronchamp)
– Bauhaus
– Collage City by Fred Koetter and Colin Rowe
– Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Frank Gehry’s building inspired by the shipyards)
– Heydar Aliyev Centre (Zaha Hadid’s building dedicated to a tyrant but beloved by skateboarders)
– The Paideia School (my weird high school)
– A Worn Path by Eudora Welty
– Margaret Pepperdene (my mentor Jane)
– The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
– John’s Mountie Boots by Marilyn Levine
– Louis Kahn (not Thomas Kuhn)
– Thomas Kuhn (the paradigm shift guy)
– John Barth (not Roland Barthes)
– The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
– The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills by Joanna Pearson (my wife’s YA novel)
– The Daily: How Air-Conditioning Conquered the World
– One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
– Dear Derrida by David Kirby
– The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
– Westworld (1973) by Michael Crichton
– Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
– Timeline by Michael Crichton
– CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
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