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10 Buildings That Changed the World
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This film tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society. From Am...
This film tells the stories of ten influential works of architecture, the people who imagined them, and the way these landmarks ushered in innovative cultural shifts throughout our society. From American architectural stalwarts like Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, to modern revolutionaries Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi, this film examines prominent buildings designed by pioneering architects of our time, whose legacy is visible in our environmental and cultural landscape.
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- Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (57 min.) : sound, color
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn890210919
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on August 15, 2014.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Closed-captioned.
- Architectural Innovation (1:29) -- Sponsor Message: 10 Buildings That Changed the World (0:48) -- Virginia State Capitol (2:13) -- Maison Carrée (1:36) -- Classical Temple Architecture (1:51) -- Trinity Church (1:50) -- Engineering Trinity Church (1:03) -- American Renaissance (1:36) -- Wainwright Building (1:39) -- Skyscraper Pioneer (1:20) -- Tripartite Design (2:13) -- Prairie Style Houses (1:16) -- Robie House (2:40) -- Frank Lloyd Wright's Legacy (1:21) -- Highland Park Ford Plant (2:17) -- Engineering an Assembly Line (2:17) -- Southdale Center (1:42) -- Suburban Mall Formula (3:27) -- Seagram Building (2:20) -- International Style Architecture (3:38) -- Dulles International Airport (1:33) -- Dulles "Hammock" Roof (3:02) -- Vanna Venturi House (1:14) -- Complexity and Contradiction (3:33) -- Postmodernist Architecture (1:03) -- Walt Disney Concert Hall (1:56) -- Architectural Technology (2:25) -- 21st Century American Architecture (1:34) -- Credits: 10 Buildings That Changed the World (1:30)