Streetsweeper

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'?

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In part 2 of this episode, veteran housing professional and activist Lorraine Douglas REACTS to "socially engaged architecture"(tm). And you guys thought we were harsh.

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Check out the Housing Charter of the Communist Party of Britain:

https://www.communistparty.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HOUSING-A3_.pdf

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This episode there is a housing crisis in the UK and it turns out to all be capitalism's fault. Join us in this shocking discovery in our first interview episode, with retired union officer, social housing professional, and our dear comrade Lorraine Douglas.

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Check out the Housing Charter of the Communist Party of Britain:

https://www.communistparty.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/HOUSING-A3_.pdf

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In this episode, we continue laying out the sordid history of architectural education and its on-again, off-again, relationship with practice: from public-sector glory to real-estate servitude, and beyond into the unknown... and unpaid.

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It's been a tough six months but we're back. In this episode, we lay out the sordid history of architectural education and its on-again, off-again, relationship with practice: from public-sector glory to real-estate servitude, and beyond into the unknown... and unpaid.

Part 1/2

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Venice's new flood barrier is working and the tourists are safe. Climate Change solved everybody! Also we're getting a new 'spatial contract' - it's like the social one except only for architects. In this episode, a bridge is an island, an island is a courtyard, a courtyard is a network, Venice is the world, and words have lost all meaning. The 2020 Venice Biennale is here... or there, since we didn't go.

Recorded in June 2021.

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In this episode, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does the avant-garde and it is bad. Welcome to Fully Automated Luxury Neo-Feudalism(tm) everyone!

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Recorded in March 2021.

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In this episode, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does the avant-garde and it is bad. Welcome to Fully Automated Luxury Neo-Feudalism(tm) everyone!

Part 1/2

Recorded in March 2021.

Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz

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What do architects do when they're stuck inside? Turns out, the same stuff they did before, because they have been stuck inside for a couple of decades at least. This episode, we dive into the inner workings of the architects' mind and find ourselves trapped in the bourgeois interior.

This episode was recorded in Spring 2020.

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Architecture tries to covid, Schumacher tries to BLM, Boeri coronawashes greenwashing, and everything just keeps being terrible. Welcome to streetsweeper everyone!

This episode was recorded in Spring 2020.

Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz

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