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Leadership rivals Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak criticised for lack of housing policy. New London buildings dominate the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist. The capital weighs up its Olympic legacy a decade on from the games. And is there a socialist case for traditional architecture?This week Merlin is joined by the architect and writer Douglas Murphy. The Londown is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Bureau is a co-working space for creatives offering a new approach to membership workspace. Bureau prioritises not just room to think and do, but also shared resources and space to collaborate. To book a free day pass follow this link.The Londown is produced in association with the Architects' Journal. If you enjoyed the show, we recommend you subscribe to the AJ for all the latest news, building studies, expert opinion, cultural analysis, and business intelligence from the UK architecture industry. Listeners can save 15% on a subscription using this link. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We roam over London, New York, Paris, Bilbao, Preston, and the Scottish Highlands, in a discussion of what cities and landscapes tell us about workers and the wealthy, how anarchism assists urban planning, imperial landscapes in pop culture, Boris Johnson's oligarch-pleasing Garden Bridge project, the Labour Councillor who bollarded himself out of a pint, how the National Gallery tried to discourage tourists, and more. Plus, photography: Stalin vs Henri Cartier-Bresson. Tim Waterman is Associate Professor of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL. His latest book is The Landscape of Utopia: Writings on Everyday Life, Taste, Democracy, and Design. Our Patreon Second Row Socialists on Twitter Comradio on Twitter Alternative Left Entertainment ALE on Twitter Tim Waterman on Twitter Tim's website The Landscape of Utopia by Tim Waterman (2022) Nincompoopolis: The Follies of Boris Johnson by Douglas Murphy (2017) Comradio ep 53 - Unsensible World of Soccer Anarchy in Action by Colin Ward (2017) The Child in the City by Colin Ward (1978). Full text The World Bollard Association on Twitter Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson (2016) How we built community wealth in Preston Ukraine official Twitter account on Coke and Pepsi People's Republic of Walmart : How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Leigh Philips, Michal Rozworski (2019) Developing Socialism: The Photographic Condition of Architecture in Romania, 1958–1970 - Juliana Maxim (2011) Photographer profile: Henri Cartier-Bresson
With the publication of our Collage + AR New into Old issue, we return to an essay by Douglas Murphy on Cedric Price, published as part of an issue on adaptive reuse, picking up on the ideas of adaptability, indeterminacy, and progress that underlie Price's work. The AR New into Old awards celebrate the creative ways buildings are adapted and remodelled to welcome contemporary uses. This year, we will be hosting the winner of the 2021 awards, ZAV architects, in an online event celebrating their project Farsh Film Studio, and discussing adaptive reuse as a type of architectural intervention. The event is on 19 July and will be free to attend – register here: https://www.architectural-review.com/events/join-us-in-conversation-with-zav-architects-on-19-july
Blues Behind Bars began conducting songwriting workshops and playing concerts at Sterling Correctional Facility in 2009. Since then, the group has completed the Colorado Department of Corrections volunteer training and is officially a DOC-approved program, giving them access to programming in correctional facilities across multiple states. Today, Blues Behind Bars regularly conducts songwriting workshops in Larimer County Jail and Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, helping the incarcerated share their stories, use their voices, and find hope.
Idris Elba is a man of many parts - actor, DJ, kick-boxer and now film director. He discusses his first feature, Yardie, based on the hit novel of the same name, by Victor Headley which, in 1992, told the tales of "D", a Jamaican in London engaged in the super-violent drugs trade of the 1970s. The former Raleigh Cycle Company headquarters in Nottingham recently became the 400,000th listed building in England. Deborah Mays, Head of Listing Advice at Historic England, writer and architect Douglas Murphy, and Dr Anton Lang, Chartered Town Planner, discuss whether we have too many listed buildings in the UK.For the Front Row Inspire season, each of the presenters has taken on a creative challenge to try something new, and Stig elected to write a sonnet for his new-born daughter Phoebe. He visits the Walthamstow Forest Poets, one of over 85 'Stanza' poetry meetups around the UK run by volunteers from The Poetry Society. Stig reads his sonnet, gets some advice on it and finds out where the poets in the group get their inspiration. Presnter: Stig Abell Producer: Julian May.
What is gentrification? How far are artists complicit - wittingly or not - in processes of social cleansing? What can artists do to fight it? Juliet talks to artist-academic Alberto Duman (http://www.albertoduman.me.uk/main.htm) and 'Savage Messiah' author/artist Laura Grace Ford (http://lauraoldfieldford.blogspot.co.uk/) about gentrification, and the role of artists within it. WORKS REFERENCED Colouring in Culture - http://colouringinculture.org/ #NovaraFM on decapitalism - http://novaramedia.com/2017/12/17/nina-power-decapitalism/ Agit-train (Dziga Vertov & Aleksandr Medvdkin) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agit-train Archigram, Plug-In City - https://www.archdaily.com/399329/ad-classics-the-plug-in-city-peter-cook-archigram Walter Benjamin Embassy Court (Brighton) - http://www.embassycourt.org.uk/ Mark Fisher (k-punk) on rave - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/009782.html RICHARD FLORIDA, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class Walter Gropius Stewart Home - 'Keep Hackney crap' - http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2009/08/keeping-hackney-crap/ ANTHONY ILES & J. BERRY SLATER, No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City (2009) - http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/no-room-to-move-radical-art-and-regenerate-city JANE JACOBS, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) Fredric Jameson Huw Lemmey - https://www.theguardian.com/profile/huw-lemmey GAVIN MUELLER, 'Liberalism and Gentrification' - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/liberalism-and-gentrification/ DOUGLAS MURPHY, Last Futures (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/13/last-futures-douglas-murphy-review ALISON & PETER SMITHSON, Robin Hood Gardens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5thwHTYNk John Wild - http://www.codedgeometry.net/johnwild/
A Lei de Murphy, é um livro em quadrinhos, sim, não é um livro cansativo de ler, pois tem muitas figuras. É fácil de ler e conta uma história ambientada num mundo fictício. Seu autor e quadrinista é o Flávio Soarez, Designer de profissão, criador da webtira A vida com Logan, inclusive ele já participou aqui de episódios comigo que os links ficarão no post desse episódio. Douglas Murphy, o personagem principal dessa trama é um advogado em um mundo onde é normal ter heróis, normal ter pessoas com super-poderes, e por consequência, pessoas em conflitos com a aquisição desses poderes. Douglas Murphy foi brilhantemente interpretado pelo Dann Garcia Vamos Juntos! Visite a Loja Marsupial e garanta já a compra do seu livro com Desconto de 5 % com o cupom COACHCAST Vamos Juntos? Canal do Paulinho Siqueira no YouTube Mande-nos um email para contato@coachcast.com.br Acesse nosso Padrim aqui:Padrim.com.br/coachcastbr Ou pelas redes sociais: twitter.com/coachcastbr facebook.com/coachcastbr facebook.com/groups/coachcastbr instagram.com/coachcastbr Conheça o Podtools https://podtools.org Ajude o Podtools https://www.padrim.com.br/podtools nativamultimidia.com.br Site do Fábio Carvalho: https://goo.gl/xReE4x
What happened to the future? Owen Hatherley and Douglas Murphy explode the distortions of history that obscure our present and future in their new respective books The Ministry of Nostalgia and Last Futures. Excavating the lost archeology of the present day, Douglas Murphy’s Last Futures is a fascinating, mind-bending cultural history of the last avant-garde. Through a cast of architects, dreamers, thinkers, hippies and designers, Murphy diagnoses the source of our current situation and steers us towards powerful alternative futures. In a sharp, witty polemic, Owen Hatherley skewers the contemporary nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed. Why, in an age of austerity, have we adopted the gospel of luxurious poverty, from ubiquitous 'Keep Calm and Carry On' posters to the ‘artisinal’? The Ministry of Nostalgia reaches across a depleted cultural landscape to demand more for our society—after all, Hatherley argues, why should we have to 'Keep Calm and Carry On'? Chaired by Shumi Bose, architectural writer, historian, editor and teacher at Central St Martins responsible for coordinating Contextual Studies for BA Architecture: Spaces and Objects, covering architectural history, theory and broader cultural issues.
What happened to the future? Verso authors Owen Hatherley and Douglas Murphy seek to explode the distortions of history that obscure our present and future in their new respective books 'The Ministry of Nostalgia' and 'Last Futures'. Excavating the lost archeology of the present day, Douglas Murphy’s 'Last Futures' is a fascinating, mind-bending cultural history of the last avant-garde. Through a cast of architects, dreamers, thinkers, hippies and designers, Murphy diagnoses the source of our current situation and steers us towards powerful alternative futures. In a sharp, witty polemic, Owen Hatherley skewers the contemporary nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed. Why, in an age of austerity, have we adopted the gospel of luxurious poverty, from ubiquitous 'Keep Calm and Carry On' posters to the ‘artisinal’? The Ministry of Nostalgia reaches across a depleted cultural landscape to demand more for our society—after all, Hatherley argues, why should we have to 'Keep Calm and Carry On'? Chaired by Shumi Bose, architectural writer, historian, editor and teacher at Central St Martins responsible for coordinating Contextual Studies for BA Architecture: Spaces and Objects, covering architectural history, theory and broader cultural issues. This event was organised in association with New Humanist.
Anne McElvoy talks to the winner of this year's TS Eliot poetry prize Sarah Howe - who won for her first collection; Anne talks to leading physicist Lisa Randall - author of Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs and explores new architecture with Douglas Murphy and Owen Hopkins. New Generation Thinker Jonathan Healey looks at what history can tell us about coping with flooding.
Dr. Douglas Murphy, Dr. Michael E. Halkos. Intracardiac Surgery Using Robotic Instrumentation. Recorded 2014-01-06.
In this second in a series of six programmes discussing themes within visual and material culture, hosted by Juliette Kristensen, we discuss fireworks with historian of science Simon Werrett; home organisation with design historian and material culture theorist Katherine Feo Kelly; nineteenth century glass and iron structures with architectural historian and critic Douglas Murphy; and x-ray crystallography and Postwar British design culture with design historian and artist Emily Candela. Produced by Chris Dixon and Juliette Kristensen. Engineered by Chris Dixon.