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Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
From Nothing, Something profiles creative thinkers across a variety of disciplines to find the common techniques, habits and neuroses that lead to breakthrough ideas. This is an inspiring, intimate, often funny look at the creative process — straight from the brains of some of culture’s most unique and accomplished talents. The film draws a line from a-to-b, charting the journey of an idea from "fanciful notion" to "real world actuality." Featuring...
64) In the Monument
Publisher
Interfilm Productions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
World renowned architect Daniel Libeskind (Jewish Museums in Berlin, Copenhagen, San Francisco), prolific scholar James E. Young (The Texture of Memory, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust), museum designer Ralph Appelbaum (US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Canadian Museum for Human Rights), visual artist Esther Shalev-Gerz (Hamburg-Harburg Monument Against Fascism) and many other knowledgeable artists, designers, and educators share their thoughts on...
65) Easy Like Water
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Easy Like Water profiles one man's resourceful quest to fight the effects of climate change in the developing world through the power of “design for good” – a growing global movement to encourage design-driven social change as a community-based response to the challenges brought on by the new climate reality.. In Bangladesh, a country with 160 million people in an area the size of Iowa, water poses a relentless and growing threat to millions...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The architect Peter Zumthor lives and works in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Kanton of Graubünden. Here, keeping the politics of architecture at a comfortable distance, Zumthor enjoys the status of "world-class" architect for his unique modernist buildings. They can be found in many parts of Europe, soon to be followed by a public building in Los Angeles, where he is in charge of a new master plan for LACMA. Visiting him in his studio,...
69) Libraries
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How do you design a library?. Go behind the mind of the architect in this episode of COOL SPACES as architect and teacher Stephen Chung presents how the most innovative libraries were designed, featuring the spaces of James B. Hunt Jr. Library (Raleigh, NC), South Mountain Community Library (Phoenix, AZ), and Seattle Central Library (Seattle, WA).
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
10 Towns that Changed America focuses on ten “experimental” towns that did not evolve organically over time, but instead were designed (or redesigned) from the ground up by visionary architects, corporations, and citizens, who sought to change the lives of residents using architecture, design, and urban planning. Some of these visionaries were driven by an ideology, others were trying to serve their own financial interests, but all had one thing...
71) Cool Spaces
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This series profiles the most provocative and innovative public space architecture in North America. Each hour-long episode is organized around a central theme--Performance Spaces, Libraries, Art Spaces, and Healing Spaces--and profiles three buildings. For each building, we see why it was designed, how it was designed, and discover just what makes the building so cool. Guided by architect and teacher Stephen Chung, we set off to explore these questions...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
What goes on behind the mind of the architect?. In this episode of COOL SPACES, architect and teacher Stephen Chung explores the most provocative performance spaces featuring Barclay's Center (Brooklyn NY), Cowboys Stadium (Dallas, TX), and Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (Kansas City, MO).
73) Art Spaces
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Explore the most beautiful art spaces including the Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia, PA), Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture (Charlotte, NC), and Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) in this episode of COOL SPACES. Hosted by architect and teacher Stephen Chung.
75) Healing Spaces
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How do architects design the spaces used for healing?. Take some time out of your day to explore the designs behind healing spaces featuring the Health Sciences Education Building (Phoenix, AZ), Yale Health Center (New Haven, CT), and Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (Las Vegas, NV).
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Colosseum is a monument to Roman imperial power and cruelty. Its graceful lines and harmonious proportions concealed a highly efficient design and advanced construction methods that made hundreds of arches out of 100,000 tons of stone. In its elliptical arena, tens of thousands of gladiators, slaves, prisoners and wild animals met their deaths. Ancient texts report lions and elephants emerging from beneath the floor, as if by magic, to ravage...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In his new documentary, photographer Don Freeman explores the homes designed and lived in by notable American artists, revealing the inventiveness derived from the dialogue between each artist's practice and the construction of their handmade homes. Ranging from the romantic (Hudson River School painter Frederic Church's Olana, framing views of the Catskills to echo his paintings), to the futuristic (Paolo Soleri's silt-casted structure Cosanti growing...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
"The ancient Egyptians' massive stone monuments, ranging from Abu Simbel in the south of Cleopatra's palaces in Alexandria, were built over a period of three millennia, and yet a common architectural tradition links them all." "The Encyclopedia of Ancient Egyptian Architecture documents that tradition and provides a single-volume reference on one of the most remarkable architectures of the ancient world. Separate entries are provided for each of the...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Assyrian palace at Nimrud, with its imposing 20-foot gates, was designed by Ashurnasirpal II. An epic braggart, he loved to write of his conquests of nature and his knowledge of tree species. Clearly an intellectual, he describes in detail the glory of feasts he threw - and the math behind them.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Herod was a complex king whose royal image was defined by insecurity, innovation, and a need to reflect his Jewish identity. Starting with his heated Roman baths in each palace, understand how the king was a master of the land and was able to give his people a marvelous oasis in the desert.
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