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Blueprint for Living is a weekly rummage through the essential cultural ingredients - design, food, travel, gardens, fashion - for a good life.

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Lost and Found — Greek Isla...

04.17.2021

From the whitewashed houses and idyllic waters of Lefkes, we travel in space and time to the heady bohemian days of Hydra in the 50s and 60s.

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04.17.2021 Lost and Found — Greek Islands (Paros and Hydra) From the whitewashed houses and idyllic waters of Lefkes, we travel in space and time to the heady bohemian days of Hydra in the 50s and 60s.
04.16.2021 Iconic Designs: Velvet The smoothest, richest fabric, imbued with the soul of craftsmanship that transforms everything it touches into a work of limitless sensuality.
04.16.2021 Kitchen Rudimental: an autumn kitchen garden Annie talks about why it was a bleak summer for tomatoes, waxes lyrical about the beauty of cabbage and laughs lovingly at some alien kohlrabi.
04.16.2021 Disruptive domesticity: the spatial dynamics of the sharing economy Sharing economy platforms are radically disrupting the social and spatial dynamics of cities. What role can architects play in mitigating or subverting the more pernicious effects of urban 'disruption'?
04.16.2021 World travel, in the footsteps of Anthony Bourdain Laurie Woolever reflects on the life and legacy of Anthony Bourdain and takes us on a journey through the eyes of the late chef, from the cosmopolitan bustle of Buenos Aires to the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter.
04.10.2021 Lost and Found - Brasília How might you go about building a capital city from scratch?
04.09.2021 A Food Lover's Guide to Slow Cooker Glory Katrina Meynink on the pleasures of the slow cooker and why slow cooked food is always worth the wait.
04.09.2021 A garden in autumn Amidst a landscape transformed by a sea of red and yellow fallen leaves, Tim Entwisle and Jonathan Green take a tour of the Royal Botanic Gardens.
04.09.2021 Designing the 'new normal' Ross Harding, Jefa Greenaway and Clare Cousins talk architectural visions for the future and what architects can do in a moment of profound crisis.
04.02.2021 Lost and Found — Jerusalem A journey to an ancient city marked by both beauty and ugliness, where intractable allegiances, passions and pasts collide.
04.02.2021 Iconic Designs: the retractable tape measure Has there ever been a better way of measuring a piece of string?
04.02.2021 A very foodie season Annie Smithers on food traditions, ritual, and the changing customs of this most food-centric of seasons.
04.02.2021 Sense of Place: Heather McGinness, Australia's inland floodplains and wetlands The senior research scientist at the CSIRO tells us about the migration patterns of waterbirds via the music of John Farnham.
04.02.2021 Inside the bleak 21st century apartment interior A journey into the speculative interior of a seemingly generic, inner-urban, mass-produced apartment takes a dark, uncanny turn.
03.26.2021 Lost and Found — Vilnius A journey to the Lithuanian capital featuring a visit to Vilnius' last remaining synagogue and a day trip to a Soviet theme park.
03.26.2021 Iconic Designs: Jože Plečnik An individual voice with a singular architectural vision to give pleasure and dignity, embodied in the city of Ljubljana.
03.26.2021 Kitchen Rudimental: pancakes Annie Smithers talks clarified butter and showed Jonathan how to make the perfect pancake.
03.26.2021 Buttergate The story behind the mysteriously unsoften-able Canadaian butter.
03.26.2021 Mary Quant – Fashion revolutionary A look back at the kaleidoscopic colours, raised hemlines and emancipatory fabrics that characterised Mary Quant’s extraordinary fashion.
03.19.2021 Lost and Found - Melbourne Cricket Ground In anticipation of Australian football's return, journey to the MCG, a centuries old meeting place with many stories to tell.
03.19.2021 Sonica botanica: listening to plants Sound artist Patrick Cronin has created an immersive botanical listening experience.
03.19.2021 Raising an urban farm At the back of a school, surrounded by suburban streets. three young urban farmers are cultivating a market garden.
03.19.2021 The Australian nightmare: western Sydney's urban heat The confluence of geography and development, bad planning and accelerating global warming has made western Sydney an increasingly dangerous place to live.
03.12.2021 Lost and Found — Bergen A city of beauty, inwardness, and relentless, driving rain from which emerged Neo-Fjoridc cuisine, Karl Ove Knausgård and with him a great literary renaissance.
03.12.2021 Iconic Designs: De Havilland Comet In the 1940s, a prototype of the world's first and most beautiful jet airliner took to the skies; it would forever change the way we travel.
03.12.2021 Japanese fermentation and the magic of 'koji' Meet Yoko Nakazawa, the woman making miso, mirin and soy sauce from scratch in suburban Melbourne.
03.12.2021 Kitchen Rudimental: how to make schnitzel In part three of Annie Smithers' celebration of butter, she shows us how to make a schnitzel.
03.12.2021 Owning the Street What has the pandemic-led reclamation of public space revealed about ideas of ownership, belonging and rights to the modern city?
03.05.2021 Lost and Found - Toronto Take a tour of Canada's largest and most multicultural city via it's underground walkways, it's myriad of restaurants and a Toronto Raptors home game.
03.05.2021 Iconic Designs: Case Study Houses Open, timeless and original: Los Angeles' twenty-two houses that were influential around the world.
03.05.2021 Mt Buffalo Chalet When it opened in 1910, the Mount Buffalo Chalet was the epitome of elegance and elevated sophistication. Fiona Gruber takes a tour of the faded star in hope of restoration.
03.05.2021 Sense of Place: Meg Bignell, Bream Creek, Tasmania Tasmanian dairy farmer and debut author Meg Bignell on finding her place, the Bream Creek show and the problem of being a proud country woman and a terrible cook.
03.05.2021 Lesley Lokko on architecture, identity and race Scottish-Ghanaian architect, Lesley Lokko reflects on her affinity for architecture, the future of architectural education and the enduring question of identity in the discipline.
02.26.2021 Lost and Found — The Enchanted City Come on an urban tramp, in search of enchantment, to discover the industrial city anew.
02.26.2021 Iconic Designs: St Clerans An elegant, seemingly simple house in Galway that was home to Robert O'Hara Burke, later John Huston and host to some of the 20th century's creative and intellectual superstars.
02.26.2021 Pru La Motte retrospective Pru La Motte was a weaver, painter and potter, fiercely determined and relentlessly productive; we take a tour of the Wombattery in Adelaide where she lived and worked.
02.26.2021 Kitchen Rudimental: in praise of butter Annie Smithers talks the pleasures of butter and shows Jonathan a recipe for buttery green beans and almonds.
02.26.2021 Sense of Place: Durkhanai Ayubi, Oxford The author of Parwana takes us to Oxford via the music of Armenian composer Komitas.
02.26.2021 Reknit revolution Swiss darn, stitch hack, replace cuff, alter section, reknit, cardiganise and take back fashion for the people.
02.19.2021 Lost and Found - South Auckland Take a trip to South Auckland, a city within a city; it's geographical lines drawn by greater Auckland's collective imaginary (allowing a glimpse of how one might come to understand race relations in New Zealand).
02.19.2021 Cool cities A proposed walkable urban landscape shows how architecture and landscape design can improve urban climate and make our cities sustainable into the future.
02.19.2021 Eating with my mouth open Sam van Zweden on food writing, food memories, the problem with wellness culture and the pleasures of eating.
02.19.2021 Understanding a global fire crisis How land use change might help us make sense of recent global fire crises from California to Siberia, Brazil to Australia.
02.12.2021 Lost and Found — Rome (in poetry) A journey through the ancient Italian capital - from the Spanish Steps to the Villa Sciarra - through the eyes of the poets.
02.12.2021 Iconic designs: The Jet d'Eau So simple it's almost laughable – a single jet of water shooting upwards out of a lake, as though a giant whale has got stuck on pause.
02.12.2021 A return to the garden with Costa Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis takes the nation's botanical temperature, after a year of weather extremes.
02.12.2021 Kitchen Rudimental: how to make a butter cake Annie Smithers makes a basic butter cake, talks appliance design and explains the science of creaming butter and sugar.
02.12.2021 Citizen scientists recording climate change Tim Entwisle takes a walk to discover how the new ClimateWatch app is enabling citizen scientists to contribute to improving our understanding of how climate change is impacting Australia's plants and animals.
02.12.2021 Hole-y heck: the great bucatini shortage of 2020 In pursuit of the truth about disappearing bucatini, one brave investigative journalist went deep into the shadowy world of Big Pasta and unravelled 2020's greatest mystery.
02.05.2021 Lost and Found — Copenhagen (part two) Our Danish journey takes a dark turn with a focus on dismemberment, watery death, rogue detectives and a trip across the Øresund Bridge.

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Blueprint - Separate stories episodes:

Lost and Found — Greek Islands (Paros and Hydra)

Iconic Designs: Velvet

Kitchen Rudimental: an autumn kitchen garden

Disruptive domesticity: the spatial dynamics of the sharing economy

World travel, in the footsteps of Anthony Bourdain

Lost and Found - Brasília

A Food Lover's Guide to Slow Cooker Glory

A garden in autumn

Designing the 'new normal'

Lost and Found — Jerusalem

Iconic Designs: the retractable tape measure

A very foodie season

Sense of Place: Heather McGinness, Australia's inland floodplains and wetlands

Inside the bleak 21st century apartment interior

Lost and Found — Vilnius

Iconic Designs: Jože Plečnik

Kitchen Rudimental: pancakes

Buttergate

Mary Quant – Fashion revolutionary

Lost and Found - Melbourne Cricket Ground

Sonica botanica: listening to plants

Raising an urban farm

The Australian nightmare: western Sydney's urban heat

Lost and Found — Bergen

Iconic Designs: De Havilland Comet

Japanese fermentation and the magic of 'koji'

Kitchen Rudimental: how to make schnitzel

Owning the Street

Lost and Found - Toronto

Iconic Designs: Case Study Houses

Mt Buffalo Chalet

Sense of Place: Meg Bignell, Bream Creek, Tasmania

Lesley Lokko on architecture, identity and race

Lost and Found — The Enchanted City

Iconic Designs: St Clerans

Pru La Motte retrospective

Kitchen Rudimental: in praise of butter

Sense of Place: Durkhanai Ayubi, Oxford

Reknit revolution

Lost and Found - South Auckland

Cool cities

Eating with my mouth open

Understanding a global fire crisis

Lost and Found — Rome (in poetry)

Iconic designs: The Jet d'Eau

A return to the garden with Costa

Kitchen Rudimental: how to make a butter cake

Citizen scientists recording climate change

Hole-y heck: the great bucatini shortage of 2020

Lost and Found — Copenhagen (part two)

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