Your weekly expedition to the heart of modern life through buildings, design, gardens and food.
Future-proofing our beloved cities, and Hetty Lui McKinnon's last meal
April 20, 2024
54:04
Saudi Arabia’s 'The Line' and architectural megalomania
April 13, 2024
Re-designing the nature strip and re-inventing the suburban backyard
April 6, 2024
53:56
The lost art of dress and a tour of the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
March 30, 2024
54:05
The alt right diet, meat and masculinity and chef Jo Barrett's last supper
March 23, 2024
53:57
Paris' radical climate plan and a design history of the bicycle
March 16, 2024
Nam Le on Iowa City, Provincetown and becoming a writer and hors d'oeuvres with Elizabeth David
March 9, 2024
Optimistic design the Solarpunk way, trend cycles spinning out and a museum of disgusting foods
March 2, 2024
Besha Rodell predicts 2024 food trends, Nathan Thrall on Jerusalem and Guy Grossi's last supper
Feb. 24, 2024
Aesthetic uniformity, hipster cafes and Neutraface, the ubiquitous signifier of gentrification
Feb. 17, 2024
Kevin McCloud on good design, Yanis Varoufakis' sense of place and Annie Smithers' homage to Elizabeth David
Feb. 10, 2024
54:07
A psychoanalytic account of comfort eating, the fate of COVID-core comfort wear and the design history of the comfy chair
Feb. 3, 2024
Blueprint For Living: Bee Wilson on loss and cooking, Dan Hunter's last supper and Lucy Treloar on a ghost town in South Australia
Jan. 27, 2024
54:00
The architectural and environmental legacies of colonisation
Jan. 20, 2024
The greigification of interiors and the netural-colours of stealth wealth
Jan. 13, 2024
54:06
Cruise ships, cargo ships and capital
Jan. 6, 2024
'We're afraid of walkable distances now?' — conspiracies and the '15-minute city'
Dec. 30, 2023
A scholarly paean to leftovers and the festishisation of decay
Dec. 23, 2023
Blueprint x Christmas: a very seasonal romp through food, gardens and design
Dec. 16, 2023
Pasta and food writing with Rachel Roddy and the challenges of urban planning in Reykjavik
Dec. 9, 2023
Building modern Australian universities, fashion in the age of AIDS and Tokyo's Yoyogi gymnasium
Dec. 2, 2023
A design history of the sneaker and the legacy of iconic designer Garry Emery
Nov. 25, 2023
Re-designing the planet with Liam Young, ecological protection and the design history of the mason jar
Nov. 18, 2023
Plant detectives and redefining Australian food
Nov. 11, 2023
Menu uniformity and the scourge of kingfish crudo and a conversation with Carlos Moreno, inventor of the 15 minute city
Nov. 4, 2023
Conservation or intervention? How to manage Australia's native forests; and a conversation with Stephanie Alexander
Oct. 28, 2023
Reinier de Graaf on the new language of building and the legacy of Clarence Chai
Oct. 21, 2023
Kate Reid's journey from Formula 1 to the boulangerie
Oct. 14, 2023
Siegfried Kracauer's analysis of class and urban spaces and garden designer Peter Donegan's favourite tree
Oct. 7, 2023
Meat, masculinity and the culture war and a post-war solution to the housing crisis
Sept. 30, 2023
Childless cities and the architecture of therapy
Sept. 23, 2023
The ideology of meat consumption and the history of the men's suit in the formation of modern Jewish identity
Sept. 16, 2023
An urban tree recovery initiative and demystifying the meaning of 'plant based'
Sept. 9, 2023
The effects of franchise-chain capitalism and the history of the Norwegian sweater
Sept. 2, 2023
Food, national identity and the myth of authenticity and a tour of the National Herbarium
Aug. 26, 2023
George Monbiot's culinary regenesis, and a utopian architect
Aug. 19, 2023
Decline of the Australian fashion industry, architecture and acoustics and rewilding Great Dixter
Aug. 12, 2023
Food culture in Sydney and Melbourne and dam removal across Europe
Aug. 5, 2023
July 29, 2023
The greigification of interiors, the netural-colours of stealth wealth and finding beauty in the bare winter garden
July 22, 2023
Reimagining flood plain development and restoring Australia's architectural treasures
July 15, 2023
July 8, 2023
July 1, 2023
A story of design, technology and material and a cultural history of the gay bar
June 24, 2023
An artistic approach to coastal defence and retrofitting earthquake-prone buildings
June 17, 2023
54:09
Discovering psychogeography and the hidden cost of electric vehicles
June 10, 2023
Sustainable design and construction and the medieval penchant for lamprey
June 3, 2023
Autumn in the botanic gardens and interrogating interior design
May 27, 2023
Gaetano Pesce on optimism and design
May 20, 2023
Tim Ross on the 80s, and Personal But Not Private- A contemplation on home in public housing
May 13, 2023
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