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Jul 2018
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38 — Le Corbusier — 9 — Villa Stein & Vi...

Luke Jones & George Gingell Discuss Architecture, History And Culture
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Projects like the Villa Stein and Villa Savoye are icons of modernist architecture — among the most famous of all modern buildings — images and symbols of what modern architecture is. Below all the machine age crispness, there's also a certain amount of weird bourgeois sex stuff as well.

This is the second part of the conversation we began in episode 37 — it's best to listen to that one first.

Music —  'Easy Living' Bob Howard and his Orchestra from archive.org

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