Meades on architecture under Mussolini

[aeolium]

Another architectural survey from Jonathan Meades on BBC4 tonight (Wednesday 9 pm):

http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/d6n622/ben-building-mussolini-monuments-and-modernism

[Serial_Apologist]

Another architectural survey from Jonathan Meades on BBC4 tonight (Wednesday 9 pm):

http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-program...-and-modernism

Oh, thanks so much for the reminder, aeolium!

[mercia]

dictionaries at the ready for us uneducated oiks

sacrarium
inhumation
sussurate
minoritarian
mamil fascist
statused (violence)
usurocracy
psychotropic
pleonastic
blancoed uniformity
Thanatopolis

two of his favourites - hegemony and lacunae - popped up, so I ought to know these by now

[Sir Velo]

I'm afraid Meades has become totally self parodic; the valid points he makes from time to time are hidden under a welter of needless obscurantism.

Clearly he's on excellent terms with the BBC 4 head of programme commissioning....

[Serial_Apologist]

In a senior moment of considerable duration, I fell asleep, thus missing this programme! I hope it's available on the eye player.

[vinteuil]

I'm afraid Meades has become totally self parodic; the valid points he makes from time to time are hidden under a welter of needless obscurantism.

Clearly he's on excellent terms with the BBC 4 head of programme commissioning....

... yes, sadly I have to agree. I mean, I enjoyed it - I know some of the buildings to which he referred, and it was good to see some of those I hadn't had a chance to visit - but... he has become a caricature of himself, and the indulgence is wearing thin. A stronger editor might have pruned it to 60 minutes, advantageously.

I was of course happy to encounter his attack on the silliness of Marinetti, the Futurists, "Manifestos" , conceptual art - but there is a place for an explication of Italian fascism, and of its effect on Italian art and architecture - and, sadly, this was not it...

[Serial_Apologist]

Here's the iplayer link to the programme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07d7nj9/ben-building-mussolini-monuments-and-modernism

[Old Grumpy]

In a senior moment of considerable duration, I fell asleep, thus missing this programme! I hope it's available on the eye player.

I have this recorded. Probably would not have lasted the 90 minute course either!