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MIT6.035F05


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6.035 is a course within the department's "Computer Systems and Architecture" concentration. This course analyzes …

MIT 4.696 A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar Spring 2008


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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…

Oscar Wilde: The Complete Interviews

Read by Rob Marland


Various


This complete collection of Oscar Wilde’s English language interviews gives listeners the opportunity to hear one of history’s greatest conv…

Rural Improvement

Read by Leon Harvey


Frank Albert Waugh


The principles of civic art applied to rural conditions including village improvement and the betterment of the open country. Big issues are…

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…

Gardens Of Illusion



Gardens of Illusion 01 THURSDAY MAY 11, 2000 Tonight on Ideas...Part One of Gardens of Illusion. Philip Coulter profiles the man who designe…

Things Seen in Venice

Read by Phil Benson


Lonsdale Ragg and Laura Marie Ragg


Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…

The Symposium

Read by Geoffrey Edwards


Plato


The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with t…

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2

Read by Sue Anderson


John Lloyd Stephens


The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…

唐诗三百首 卷一 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 1

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Various


The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) was a golden age of Chinese culture: religion and philosophy, painting and calligraphy, sculpture, architectur…

Les Miserables


Victor Hugo


recorded 1937 with Orson Welles Les Miserables (translated variously from French as The Miserable Ones, The Wretched, The Poor Ones, The Wre…

The Book of Tea

Read by Mike Rosenlof


Kakuzō Okakura


The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many…

His Masterpiece

Read by Lisa Reichert


Émile Zola


“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …

Robin Brooks The Immortals



Afternoon Play: The Immortals Thu 13th May 1999, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM By Robin Brooks Charles Rennie Mackintosh is on…

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1

Read by Sue Anderson


John Lloyd Stephens


The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…

A Guide Book of Art, Architecture, and Historic Interests in Pennsylvania

Read by Tatiana Chichilla


Margaretta Archambault


This book was curated by the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women for tourists' use on a journey to Pennsylvania. Each of Pennsylvania's 6…

The Book of Tea (Version 2)

Read by Clive Catterall


Kakuzō Okakura


The Book of Tea is as much about philosophy, religion and art as it is about a drink made with dried leaves in boiling water. It traces the …

The Rainbow (Version 2)

Read by Tony Foster


D. H. Lawrence


Briefly appearing in 1915, then banned and taken out of circulation for its adult treatment of sexuality, Lawrence's visionary novel The Rai…

Great Britain at War

Read by Jeffery Farnol


Jeffery Farnol


The book follows Jeffery Farnol as he visits a number of key locations around Britain and on the continent, each demonstrating how members o…

Henrik Ibsen Rosmersholm


Flibbertigibbet


Henrik Ibsen Rosmersholm Translated by Frank McGuinness Adapted and directed by Peter Kavanagh The action takes place at Rosmersholm, a…

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