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Portico
Read by Newgatenovelist
Rubén Darío
In Selected Poems
Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet and the founder of the modernismo literary movement. These English-language translations are…
MIT 4.696 A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar Spring 2008
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course will study the question of Global Architecture from the point of view of producing a set of lectures on that subject. The course…
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
Various
University of Oxford Podcasts
Ten Books on Architecture
Read by Fredrik Karlsson
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augus…
The Builder
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Frank L. Packard
In On the Iron at Big Cloud
Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division -- t…
Darwin or Design
Read by Jason Rennie
Jason Rennie
Darwin or Design is a collection of interviews with 25 people on both sides of the intelligent design question. There are interviews on what…
Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty
Read by Winston Tharp
Wallace Stevens
In The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil…
MIT 11.949 City Visions: Past and Future, Spring 2004
MIT OpenCourseWare
This class is intended to introduce students to understandings of the city generated from both social science literature and the field of ur…
The Two Paths
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John Ruskin
"The Two Paths" is a collection of five lectures delivered in 1858 and 1859 by John Ruskin on art and architecture. This is how th…
MITSP.722S05
MIT OpenCourseWare
D-Lab: Development, Design and Dissemination is a design studio course in which students work on international development proj…
Some Mooted Questions In Reinforced Concrete Design
Read by Debra Lynn
Edward Godfrey
In Insomnia Collection Vol. 001
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…
Unbuilding a Building
Read by Steve Mattern
Winthrop Packard
In Short Story Collection Vol. 042
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 042: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Thoughts on Art and Life
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Leonardo da Vinci
This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einst…
Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect
Read by David Wales
Lawrence Weaver
This 1923 monograph on the life and work of Sir Christopher Wren was written by Lawrence Weaver, an English architectural writer and editor.…
Painting The Studio: Webly In Charge
In Bob & Ray: The Complete Collection
Sold as a 'complete' collection, it has omissions equal to the amount of material presented. Bob & Ray-A Night of Two Stars DISC 1 (47:5…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 9
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Giorgio Vasari
Volume 9 of the lives of some eminent painters, sculptors and architects in history. - Summary by Michele Eaton
On Building a Theatre
Read by James R. Hedrick
Irving Pichel
As people live in a house, Or work, day after day, in a store or factory or public building, they become used to inconveniences, bad arrange…
The Decoration of Houses
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Edith Wharton
The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In …
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
Read by James Grant
James Grant
University of Oxford Podcasts
MIT 24.213 Philosophy of Film, Fall 2004
MIT OpenCourseWare
Instructor: Prof. Irving Singer This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which i…