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Sep 2022
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#305 - After Hours: Renzo Piano's Academ...

David Lee and Marina Bourderonnet
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This week David and Marina share their thoughts on Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles and Pompidou Center, the relationship between beauty and structure, and architecture books that are important to them.

  • Francoise Choay's Urbanism, Utopias, and Realities
  • Gombrich's The Story of Art
  • Francis Ching
  • Gaston Bachelard's Poetry of Space
  • Gaston Bachelard's Highrise
  • Michael Sorkin's 20 minutes in Manhattan
  • Kevin Lynch's Image of the City
  • Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language
  • Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture,
  • Adrian Forty's Words and Buildings
  • Jane Jacobs' Death and Life of Great American Cities
  • Nick Crosley's Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory
  • Henri Lefebvre's Everyday Life
  • Homi K. Bhabha

This episode is supported by Brizo • Monograph • Miele • Graphisoft

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