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#314/Et Tu, Brutalism?  Concrete Love with Owen Hopkins + Musical Guests Poinsettia

#314/Et Tu, Brutalism? Concrete Love with Owen Hopkins + Musical Guests Poinsettia

FromUSModernist Radio - Architecture You Love


#314/Et Tu, Brutalism? Concrete Love with Owen Hopkins + Musical Guests Poinsettia

FromUSModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Aug 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Architectural historian Owen Hopkins has written or edited 16 books on architecture and his stories have appeared in Architectural Design, Dezeen, the Independent, and Blueprint, among many others. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute in London, Owen has served as architectural program curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, senior curator at Sir John Soane’s Museum, and now the director of Newcastle University’s new Farrell Centre. His latest book is about brutalism, those large concrete buildings many people love and King Charles and critics Roger Scruton and Dr. J. S. Curl hate hate hate hate hate.  Did we mention hate? As the book points out, Brutalist architecture inspires a passionate response, be it adulation or contempt. There’s lots of both to go around.  Later on, music from some great architects, and their IT buddy, in a group called Poinsettia.
Released:
Aug 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Join Mr. Modernism George Smart and crew as they talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most exciting and controversial buildings in the world. USModernist Radio is backed by the nonprofit educational archive USModernist, the largest open digital archive for Modernist residential architecture in America. www.usmodernist.org