{"id":1026,"date":"2026-03-25T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2026-03-25T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:52:00","slug":"i-knew-it-was-a-very-unsexy-idea-john-wilson-on-the-history-of-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Knew It Was a Very Unsexy Idea\u201d: John Wilson on The History of Concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17071\/john-wilson-interview-the-history-of-concrete-new-documentary-berlin?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=i-knew-it-was-a-very-unsexy-idea-john-wilson-on-the-history-of-concrete\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/1\/471740.png\" alt=\"John Wilson\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew that it was a very unsexy idea,\u201d says <strong>John Wilson<\/strong>. \u201cBut I thought it was an ace in the hole. Just because it\u2019s arguably the most relatable subject matter that you could possibly think of. Other than making a movie about water or skin.\u201d Wilson is telling me this sitting in a windowless backstage room in a Copenhagen theatre \u2013 \u201cin interview jail\u201d, as he describes it \u2013 moments before his debut feature film will screen to a rapturous sellout crowd at the documentaryhellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17071\/john-wilson-interview-the-history-of-concrete-new-documentary-berlin?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=i-knew-it-was-a-very-unsexy-idea-john-wilson-on-the-history-of-concrete\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI knew that it was a very unsexy idea,\u201d says John Wilson. \u201cBut I thought it was an ace in the hole. Just because it\u2019s arguably the most relatable subject matter that you could possibly think of. Other than making&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}