Streetsweeper

Some like it in the back, some like it more traditional. This episode, we pull back the curtain on the hidden desires of yet another middle-class culture war.

Who the fuck even has a yard anymore?

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A new king is in town and he has a new town, same as the old town: when houses were houses, streets were streets, and planners were princes. In this episode, we unveil the disurbanist conspiracy linking Charles III, Leon Krier, Rem Koolhaas, and Vlad Tepes.

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Is the welfare-state a compromise we forced on capital, or a psy-op capital forced on us?

In episode 13, we do our first mailbag episode, covering the grand total of 1 brilliant question we got from a patron - what is the welfare-state, and should left architects fight for it?

Part 2/2

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Is the welfare-state a compromise we forced on capital, or a psy-op capital forced on us?

In episode 13, we do our first mailbag episode, covering the grand total of 1 brilliant question we got from a patron - what is the welfare-state, and should left architects fight for it?

Part 1/2

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In episode 12 of streetsweeper, we continue our serious journalism live coverage of architecture workers overthrowing the bourgeoisie, interviewing Charlie Edmonds and Priti Mohandas from Future Architects Front, the informal organisation that set up the proletarian take over of RIBA for shits and giggles.

FAF website: https://fafront.co/

FAF Twitter: https://twitter.com/architectsfront?lang=en

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Dezeen's recent series on Deconstruction was so pointless that we gave up on it halfway through the episode. Instead we bring you Architecture: Good or Bad? Featuring Borg cubes, Gehry blobs, and a sustainable future where the floor is literally lava.

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In our most serious journalism episode yet, we interview Catarina Ruivo and Cristina Pinho, two organisers from the recently founded Architecture Workers Union in Portugal.

Learn with them all the tricks of the trade (union), so you can start one yourself, in the comfort of your own country.

SINTARQ website: https://sintarq.pt/

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Why are cities ugly instead of beautiful? Why is everything bad instead of good? When did we all lose touch with the simple things?

This week we read from Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, who has been asking all of these questions and more, and explaining to architects how socialism is when every man's house is his castle.

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We've been in Porto covering the founding of SINTARQ, the Architectural Workers Union in Portugal, so no full episode this week. Some things are more important than podcasts :)

But we do have a quick interview from the scene with, two organisers we dragged away from the afterparty for a bit!

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Trump predicts 2022's hottest new design trend, Prince Charles likes communist architect who likes Nazi architect, and we conclude that the people deserve pre-fab columns. In this episode, we ask what is 'right wing architecture'?

Part 2/2

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