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Spencer de Grey, a partner of Sir Norman Foster, describes plans for altering the British Museum after the British Library moves out. The scheme provides a major new heart to the museum and a clear pattern...
Architect Terry Farrell talks about transportation systems and their connectedness to other parts of the cities they are in, and how this can be improved by their design. He describes both work already...
Shows 22 houses from six different countries, some in greater detail than others. They include works from before World War 1 by architects such as Lutyens and Eliel Saarinen and the work of architects in the...
Twelve houses built in Britain between the 1950s and 1990s by architects including Richard Rogers, John Miller, John Winter, Michael Hopkins, and Tom Jestico, together with a little-known house in Germany by...
Victor Horta was more than just an exponent of the Art Nouveau style. His buildings exhibit highly original plans, many of which incorporate light wells and internal winter gardens. The slides show Horta’s...
Dan Kiley, perhaps America’s leading landscape architect, is a classicist in his use of regular geometry. Two constant themes in his urban gardens are water and light, and never more so than at Fountain...
1: Dr Dudley Hershback, a 1986 Nobel Laureate for chemistry, examines the concept of chemical synthesis and explains its applications to everyday life. Features the stories of Alfred Nobel an of Robert Burns...
Images of manuscripts and printed documents from the 16th and early 17th centuries among which are books and plays used as background material by Shakespeare. Includes sources of Shakespeare’s plays,...
A film on the Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas where tribal animism, Buddhism and Hinduism live in harmony. In the folklore of Nepal, religious mask dances accompanied by the sound of large barrel drums...
Looks at the aboriginal community of the Santals, its social habits, religious ceremonies, and the day-to-day life of a village situated at the borders of West Bengal and Bihar. Rich in traditional songs,...
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