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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

– James Haverty Smith

– 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

– Jason Gray

– Tadao Ando

– Frank Gehry

– Zaha Hadid

– Santiago Calatrava

– Colin Rowe

– Tesla Cybertruck (and the phony DeLorean logo on the one we saw)

– Boston Dynamics Dogs

– Paradise Lost by John Milton

– Manuel Cadrecha

– 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)

– Donato Bramante

– Andrea Palladio

– 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

– Philip Johnson

– 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)

– Santa Maria de la Tourette

– Villa Savoye

– 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

– Chuck Close

– Louis Kahn (not Thomas Kuhn)

– Thomas Kuhn (the paradigm shift guy)

– John Barth (not Roland Barthes)

– The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes

– Donald Barthelme

– 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 

– Mozart’s Requiem

– 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

Frequently mentioned names:

– Joshua Mehigan

– Shane McCrae

– A. E. Stallings

– Ryan Wilson

– Morri Creech

– Austin Allen

– Jonathan Farmer

– Zara Raab

– Amit Majmudar

– Ethan McGuire

– Coleman Glenn

– Alexis Sears

– JP Gritton

– Alex Pepple

– Ernie Hilbert

– Joanna Pearson

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith