Ep 168: What Are Houses For?, ft. James Haverty Smith

 

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Ep 168
Matthew Buckley Smith

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Some of the topics mentioned in this episode:

James Haverty Smith

– Toward an Architecture by Le Corbusier

Kanye West Bought an Architectural Treasure—Then Gave It a Violent Remix by Ian Parker

– Ep 167: Poetry Magazine, October 2024

– My appearance on Drunk as Poet on Payday

– Jason Gray

– Tadao Ando

Frank Gehry

– Zaha Hadid

– Santiago Calatrava

– Colin Rowe

– Tesla Cybertruck (and the phony DeLorean logo on the one we saw)

Boston Dynamics Dogs

– Paradise Lost by John Milton

– Manuel Cadrecha

– Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace (the perfect courtyard)

Jorge Silvetti (the professor who assigned the analysis of the Villa La Rotonda)

Villa La Rotonda (the most famous building in the world)

Donato Bramante

Andrea Palladio

– Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

– Notre-Dame du Haut (Le Corbusier’s chapel in Ronchamp)

– Bauhaus

– Collage City by Fred Koetter and Colin Rowe

– Philip Johnson

– Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Frank Gehry’s building inspired by the shipyards)

– Heydar Aliyev Centre (Zaha Hadid’s building dedicated to a tyrant but beloved by skateboarders)

– Santa Maria de la Tourette

– Villa Savoye

– The Paideia School (my weird high school)

– A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

– Margaret Pepperdene (my mentor Jane)

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

John’s Mountie Boots by Marilyn Levine

– Chuck Close

Louis Kahn (not Thomas Kuhn)

Thomas Kuhn (the paradigm shift guy)

John Barth (not Roland Barthes)

– The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes

– Donald Barthelme

The Rites & Wrongs of Janice Wills by Joanna Pearson (my wife’s YA novel)

– The Daily: How Air-Conditioning Conquered the World

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

– Dear Derrida by David Kirby 

Mozart’s Requiem

– The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Westworld (1973) by Michael Crichton

– Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

– Timeline by Michael Crichton

– CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders

Frequently mentioned names:

Joshua Mehigan

Shane McCrae

A. E. Stallings

Ryan Wilson

Morri Creech

Austin Allen

Jonathan Farmer

Zara Raab

Amit Majmudar

Ethan McGuire

Coleman Glenn

Alexis Sears

JP Gritton

Alex Pepple

Ernie Hilbert

Joanna Pearson

Other Ratbag Poetry Pods:

Poetry Says by Alice Allan

I Hate Matt Wall by Matt Wall

Versecraft by Elijah Blumov

Ratbag Poetics By David Jalal Motamed

Alice: Poetry Says

Brian: @BPlatzer

Cameron: CameronWTC [at] hotmail [dot] com

Matthew: sleerickets [at] gmail [dot] com

Music by ETRNL

Art by Daniel Alexander Smith

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