Today
Iain Jackson et. al., "Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Architecture, Empire, and Trade: The United Africa Company (Bloomsbury, 2025) pieces together a new architectural history of West Africa from the high colonial period through to independence. From the imperial Royal Niger Company’s charter in the 1890s through to commercial deve ... Show More
40m 43s
Today
Bram de Maeyer, "Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945-2020)" (Leuven UP, 2025)
Embassy buildings are the most tangible evidence of a state’s diplomatic presence abroad. State authorities have invested in the architectural conception of purpose-built embassies to flex their diplomatic muscle and project nationhood on foreign soil. While scholars have primari ... Show More
37m 1s
Jan 25
Edward Dimendberg ed., "Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House, 1925–35" (Getty Research Institute, 2025)
Richard Neutra and the Making of the Lovell Health House, 1925–35 (Getty Research Institute, 2025) tells the story of the Lovell Health House, designed and built by Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra (1892–1970). Perched on a steep hillside with panoramic views of Los Ang ... Show More
32m 12s
Sep 2021
Susanna Phillips Newbury, "The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles (U Minnesota Press, 2021), Susanna Phillips Newbury teases out how art and Los Angeles shaped one anot ... Show More
35m 21s
Apr 2021
07 - Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanité
Jean-Louis CohenArchitecture et forme urbaineCollège de FranceAnnée 2020 - 2021Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanitéDepuis l'Antiquité, les villes n'ont cessé d'échanger leurs formes, dans un mouvement incessant qui a vu les dispositifs de Rome, de Veni ... Show More
6 m
Apr 2021
06 - Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanité
Jean-Louis CohenArchitecture et forme urbaineCollège de FranceAnnée 2020 - 2021Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanitéDepuis l'Antiquité, les villes n'ont cessé d'échanger leurs formes, dans un mouvement incessant qui a vu les dispositifs de Rome, de Veni ... Show More
59m 31s
May 2021
08 - Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanité
Jean-Louis Cohen
Architecture et forme urbaine
Collège de France
Année 2020 - 2021
Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanité
Depuis l’Antiquité, les villes n’ont cessé d’échanger leurs formes, dans un mouvement incessant qui a vu les dispositifs de Rome, de ... Show More
6 m
May 2021
08 - Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanité
Jean-Louis CohenArchitecture et forme urbaineCollège de FranceAnnée 2020 - 2021Formes urbaines en mouvement : l'architecture de l'interurbanitéDepuis l'Antiquité, les villes n'ont cessé d'échanger leurs formes, dans un mouvement incessant qui a vu les dispositifs de Rome, de Veni ... Show More
6 m
May 2022
Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
To many the city might seem simply a large urban area to live within, but it actually forms an important political concept and community that has been influential throughout European history. From the polis of Ancient Greece, to the Roman Republic, to the city-states of the Itali ... Show More
1h 19m
Mar 2021
Christina Schwenkel, "Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2020)
Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam (Duke UP, 2020) Christina Schwenkel examines th ... Show More
55m 56s
Jul 2021
Jacob Lederman, "Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy Versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—establishing creative districts dedicated to technology and design, “greening” the streets, ... Show More
53m 25s
Aug 2019
Susan Jaques, "The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire" (Pegasus Books, 2018)
In her book, The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped An Empire (Pegasus Books, 2018), Susan Jaques offers up a richly detailed and researched account of Napoleon’s fascination with ancient Rome, and how this obsession shaped not only ... Show More
44m 36s
Apr 2023
The Economy of Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was perhaps the most significant ancient civilization to have existed throughout history, the empire lived for over 1000 years and in that time, it gave us the foundations for our modern society. Democracy, a court-based legal system, Latin languages and alphabet, th ... Show More
23m 35s
Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018), offers a holistic treatment of the development of the Mid-Republican city from 396 to 168 BCE. As Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city itself radically transformed from an ambitious central Italian settlement into the capit ... Show More
