A History Of Architecture, The Fundamental Process Podcast

Days of future past.

Wood! The other white meat.

In which we set the groundwork from which to extract an architectural archaeopteryx.

Not opposite, not equal.

A little paradox: Two minds, about to incarnate, are prepared to be delivered from the aether. The obligatory administrative mistake from which all comedy and tragedy (and time) must spring has the mind of the painter set up in a future musician, and the mind of the musician planted into an eventual painter. Under more normal circumstances, Scriabin should have been Kandinsky, and Kandinsky, Scriabin.

In which Itten did his bit for colour theory.

In which we hit upon the world-system that best helps us explain Expressionism’s appetite for polar opposites and brilliant contrasts.

And verily we say unto you: Except you be converted and become as little children, you shall not enter this school.

In which we perform some religious spring-cleaning in and about the Bauhaus (and archive), and coin a neologism to describe an age-specific paraphilia.

In which, following many detours, we kick our survey of Expressionism into motion with a likeness of the life and work of Lyonel Feininger.

In which we explore the synaptic space between Expressionism and its shadow by way of Kurt Schwitters: liminal Dadaist, grey swan and king of the house (or of a certain sort of house, in any case).

In which we take a detour to examine Dada's scat. It still smells fresh! Interesting...

In which we study the impact of some shrapnel bombs set off by Dadaism.

The Bauhaus’ red-headed stepchild.

Circles upon circles and cellars below cellars.

Of lines and through-lines.

The conclusion to Muthesius’ “Wo stehen wir?”

With a shake of moulting feathers.

In which we track the industrial sources of High Modernism, and revise some salient moments in the Realpolitik of architecture.

Loos and some notes on a world without end.