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Charles Jencks: Recent Italian & Japanese architecture (June 24, 1976)

Charles Jencks discusses how recent Italian movements are inspired by an eclectic collage of revival techniques. Jencks touches on the history of Domus and...

John Lobell Venice the City

http://johnlobell.com Lecture for a cruise that will be stopping in Venice. Focus on the history of the city, including its rise as a naval...

John Lobell Venice Art and Architecture

http://johnlobell.com A lecture for an Adriatic cruise looking at the art and architectre of Venice. source

Lecture: Erika Naginski, “Impossible Design: Porsenna’s Tomb and French Visionary Architecture”

Porsenna's tomb is a monstrous, incommensurable object of wonder that haunted the Western architectural imaginary from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Against the backdrop...

Mary Beard – Pompeii: The Art of Reconstruction

Lecture date: 2008-03-06 Mary Beard explores the different ways that archaeologists, novelists and filmmakers have chosen to reconstruct the ancient city, examining the assumptions that...