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Chapter 1
Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution
An exhibition at London’s Design Museum looks at the work of a generation of Soviet architects and designers working in the 1920s and early 1930s. The catch: none of the projects were ever built.
11 minutes
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Chapter 2
Architecture of Independence – African Modernism
In the late 1950s and stretching into the 1960s, more than 30 African countries became independent. Hungry for buildings to reflect their new identities as confident, free nations, they turned to modernism. An exhibition currently showing at New York’s Center for Architecture, ‘Architecture of Independence’, traces this movement through images and artefacts.
8 minutes
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Chapter 3
James Taylor-Foster
James Taylor-Foster, Archdaily’s European editor at large, joins us in the studio to discuss a voyeurism controversy at London’s Tate Modern, Apple’s new HQ and contextualising the internet.
7 minutes
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