Peter Rice – An Engineer Imagines
Peter Rice, a figure who stands out as one of the most eminent structural engineers of the late 20th century.
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Architecture
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 8 – Pleasure
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 8 – Pleasure: In the final episode, Dan explores how architecture gives us pleasure – both to its creators and to the people who enjoy the buildings today.
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Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 7 – Dreams
Architecture is the stuff of dreams. Since building began, architects have tried to build the future, tried to build fantasy worlds, tried even to change humanity by dreams of new inventions in bricks and mortar.
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Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 6 – Power
Dan Cruickshank explores buildings as gigantic statements of power when he visits palaces in Romania, the Middle East, the American South, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
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Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 5 – Connections
Dan sets out to reveal how architecture enables people to live together across the world. He finds vibrant communities in extraordinary buildings and towns across the globe – but why do some places succeed and others fail?
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Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 4 – Disaster
Some of the world’s greatest architecture has been forged in the face of adversity, terror and war. Dan explores buildings shaped and threatened by disaster.
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Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 3 – Paradise
Dan looks at buildings that evoke the image of heaven across religions and cultures, travelling to Egypt’s Sinai desert, China’s Hanging Temple, and Turkey’s Suleymaniye Mosque, a building that evokes the gates of paradise.
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Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 2 – Death
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture episode 2: Dan travels the globe to explore how different cultures have created architecture inspired by our mortality.
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