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The Palazzo Venezia was the first major Renaissance palace to be built in Rome. It was commissioned by the wealthy Venetian Pietro Barbo, to lie alongside the Basilica of San Marco, where he was Cardinal...
Examines the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice built between 1481 and 1489 to the designs of Pietro Lombardo. The church enshrines the miraculous image of the ‘Virgin and Child’, a painting by...
A demonstration of building decay and deterioration, using location footage and animated graphics to exaggerate or speed up movements in buildings.
The six programmes survey aspects of modern architecture and show many of the most striking and controversial buildings of the 20th century. 1: Looks at the reasons for public dissatisfaction with modern...
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...
Sigismondo Malatesta, successful soldier and self-proclaimed prince, undertook the rebuilding of the existing Gothic church of San Francesco, Rimini, into a new classical-style mausoleum for himself and his...
The Sassetti Chapel in the church of Santa Trinita, Florence, is one of the few complete family chapels remaining from the 15th century with its frescoes and altarpiece painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio and...
Made as a sequel to Edgar Anstey’s film HOUSING PROBLEMS (1935) telling the story of slum clearnaces in London and the construction of new blocks of flats seen as a solution to the housing problem. Just...
Between 1960 and 1982 over 30 new university library buildings have been built in Britain. The programme shows 16 of them, discussing their individual merits and describing some of the problems that...
The successful operation of urban conservation policies enables people to enjoy an environment which is enriched, not only by the skills of present-day town planning and building but also by the achievements...
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