About Buildings + Cities

If you want access to the full version of this episode, subscribe to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/about_buildings [https://www.patreon.com/c/about_buildings] Watch this episode on YouTube to follow along with the images: https://youtu.be/mhoIymTPnRg [https://youtu.be/mhoIymTPnRg] In the final part of our series on Rem Koolhaas's SMLXL, we discussed 'XL', including their unsuccessful competition entry for Parc de Vilette and the essay 'Generic City'. Discussions of Singapore, Atlanta and Yokohama are available on our Patreon. Our next series which will begin next month is going to be about the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik, so watch this space! Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon [https://patreon.com/about_buildings] to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/about_buildings] // instagram [https://www.instagram.com/about_buildings/] // facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aboutbuildings/] We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org [http://aboutbuildingsandcities.org/]

In Part 3 of our series on SMLXL we talked through 'L', including the essay on BIGNESS, including unbuilt schemes for the Très Grande Bibliothèquethe in Paris, the Karlsruhe Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie and the Zeebrugge Sea Terminal. To follow along with the images, check out this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cuzdCPh-iIs [https://youtu.be/cuzdCPh-iIs] We previously discussed some of these projects in episode 48 and bonus episode 48.5 (unlocked!), albeit less in the context of SMLXL as a publication. Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon [https://patreon.com/about_buildings] to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/about_buildings] // instagram [https://www.instagram.com/about_buildings/] // facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aboutbuildings/] We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org [http://aboutbuildingsandcities.org/]

This is a preview of a bonus episode available on our Patreon feed, please support the show on Patreon for full access: https://www.patreon.com/c/about_buildings [https://www.patreon.com/c/about_buildings] In this bonus we talked about the book-within-the-book, the series of quotations and definitions which run the breadth of the alphabet through SMLXL. It includes the usual Koolhaasian mixture of high and low culture, actress's memoirs, advertising, technical manuals, pornography and even Luke's dad! Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon [https://patreon.com/about_buildings] to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/about_buildings] // instagram [https://www.instagram.com/about_buildings/] // facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aboutbuildings/] We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org [http://aboutbuildingsandcities.org/]

In episode 2 of our series on SMLXL by Rem Koolhaas, OMA and Bruce Mau, we talked about 'M', including a Panopticon prison, an extension for the Dutch Parliament, the Netherlands Dance Theatre, an unbuilt hotel in Morocco and the Rotterdam Kunsthal. Follow along with images on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cqlABdVpeZ8 [https://youtu.be/cqlABdVpeZ8] Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon [https://patreon.com/about_buildings] to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/about_buildings] // instagram [https://www.instagram.com/about_buildings/] // facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aboutbuildings/] We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org [http://aboutbuildingsandcities.org/]

SMLXL (1995) was the brainchild of Rem Koolhaas, principal of OMA, rhetorically and stylistically a rejection of the norms of architectural monographs, this 1400 page silver brick was one of the most iconic art books of the 1990s. It is a strange piece of architectural publishing, and very 90s, a mixture of post-modern literary sensibilities, greasy full bleed photography and polemic against Koolhaas's teachers and peers. We will talk about the book part-by-part over the next 4 episodes, with bonus content for Patreon subscribers. Catch this episode on YouTube to see the slides: https://youtu.be/ljgaQQz-TpY [https://youtu.be/ljgaQQz-TpY] Edited by Matthew Lloyd Roberts. Support the show on Patreon [https://patreon.com/about_buildings] to receive bonus content for every show. Please rate and review the show on your podcast store to help other people find us! Follow us on twitter [https://twitter.com/about_buildings] // instagram [https://www.instagram.com/about_buildings/] // facebook [https://www.facebook.com/aboutbuildings/] We’re on the web at aboutbuildingsandcities.org [http://aboutbuildingsandcities.org/]