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05 - Living The Roman Good Life – Pliny's Letters on the Villas

05 - Living The Roman Good Life – Pliny's Letters on the Villas

FromAbout Buildings + Cities


05 - Living The Roman Good Life – Pliny's Letters on the Villas

FromAbout Buildings + Cities

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Length:
73 minutes
Released:
Sep 5, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Luke & George read and discuss Pliny the Younger’s two luxurious (but still so modest!) villas, as described in his letters. The box hedges have been trimmed, and dinner is swimming around on the back of a wooden duck.

We discussed the essay ‘The Villa as Paradigm’ by James Ackerman, from Perspecta, Vol. 22, Paradigms of Architecture (1986) pp10-31

Music:
‘Curiousity’ and ‘Quizitive' from the album ‘Music For Podcasts’ by Lee Rosevere. From the Free Music Archive at freemusicarchive.org/music/LeeRosevere/MusicFor_Podcasts/

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Released:
Sep 5, 2016
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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.