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A paginated stop-start video presenting a visual analysis of the topography, architecture and urban development of Siena, Florence and Padua in the 14th century by systematically following the same chaptered...
Francis I employed Gilles le Breton to convert his favourite hunting lodge at Fontainebleau to a Royal palace, inviting to France such Italian artists as Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio to...
The Palace of El Escorial in Spain was built by Philip II during the latter half of the 16th century. The building was supposed to combine all the functions of Church and State. On the outside the building...
In 1492 Duke Ercole I of Ferrara began a major extension of the city, designed by his court architect Biagio Rossetti. Examines this extension, and its relationship to the history of Ferrara. Shows how the...
Santo Spirito is the only church designed from scratch by Filippo Brunelleschi. Built 40 years after his death, Brunelleschi’s executors had only a wooden model of the design to follow. Investigates where...
When Cardinal Eneas Silvio Piccolomini became Pope Pius II, he rebuilt his small home town of Corsignano near Siena, into an ideal Renaissance city renamed Pienza. Today, the city is unchanged in scope or...
Traces the development of the ‘Siedlungen’ (housing estates) built in Berlin during the 1920s through the work of Taut, Scharoun, Gropius, Hring and Bartning. Shows that, despite the large scale of...
Looks at two very different developments to illustrate the differences and the common factors in the design of flats in the 1930s. TGhe huge municipal Quarry Hill estate in Leeds, designed by R A H Livett,...
Shows the similarities and differences between Behrens and Gropius by looking at their work in two German factories built just before World War 1. Also traces the continuity of classical architectural ideas...
Using contemporary photographs, looks at a range of exhibits, showing the French emphasis of craftsmanship and exotic materials and considering in what ways the architecture of the French and international...
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