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Audio Library
21st-Century World's Fairs - Part 2: Robert Rydell
October 25, 2010
What is the relevancy of world's fairs of today? Robert R. Haynie, Global Partnerships Liaison, U.S. Department of State Jack Masey, exhibition designer, author, and former Foreign Service officer, and Robert Rydell, professor of history at Montana State University, consider their legacy, and the significance of Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Robert Rydell, moderator, provides a historic overview of world's fairs.
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21st-Century World's Fairs - Part 3: Jack Masey
October 25, 2010
What is the relevancy of world's fairs of today? Robert R. Haynie, Global Partnerships Liaison, U.S. Department of State Jack Masey, exhibition designer, author, and former Foreign Service officer, and Robert Rydell, professor of history at Montana State University, consider their legacy, and the significance of Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Panelist Jack Masey discusses the major world's expositions since World War II.
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Clean, Green, and Mobile: Designing the GreenMobile® Home Unit
Building in the 21st Century
October 20, 2010
Michael Berk, director of the Mississippi State University School of Architecture and developer of the GreenMobile® home unit, discussed how this federally-funded housing prototype can replace the traditional mobile home. The GreenMobile®, which includes a variety of energy-efficient technologies, ranked number one in FEMA’s Alternative Housing Pilot Program in 2007.
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Palladio Is My Bible-Part 4: Q&A
October 18, 2010
William L. Beiswanger, director of restoration for Monticello, and Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia, consider Andrea Palladio’s influences on the architecture of Thomas Jefferson, as seen at Jefferson’s home, Monticello and at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. National Building Museum curator Chrysanthe Broikos moderates.
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Palladio Is My Bible - Part 3: Richard Guy Wilson
October 18, 2010
William L. Beiswanger, director of restoration for Monticello, and Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia, consider Andrea Palladio’s influences on the architecture of Thomas Jefferson, as seen at Jefferson’s home, Monticello and at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. National Building Museum curator Chrysanthe Broikos moderates.
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Palladio Is My Bible - Part 2: William Beiswanger
October 18, 2010
William L. Beiswanger, director of restoration for Monticello, and Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia, consider Andrea Palladio’s influences on the architecture of Thomas Jefferson, as seen at Jefferson’s home, Monticello and at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. National Building Museum curator Chrysanthe Broikos moderates.
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Palladio Is My Bible - Part 1: Introduction
October 18, 2010
William L. Beiswanger, director of restoration for Monticello, and Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in Architectural History at the University of Virginia, consider Andrea Palladio’s influences on the architecture of Thomas Jefferson, as seen at Jefferson’s home, Monticello and at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. National Building Museum curator Chrysanthe Broikos moderates.
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Removing the Barriers to Going Green: Best Practices for Market Transformation
Building in the 21st Century
September 21, 2010
Karen Penafiel, vice president of advocacy, Building Owners and Managers Association International, highlights how building owners and managers are leading the charge to implement sustainable operations and management practices in their buildings, and also to retrofit the nation’s existing buildings.
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Postmodernism
Architecture 101
August 7, 2010
The Postmodern movement in architecture embraced “wit, ornament, and historical reference” in response to the formalism of the International Style of modernism. Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, architect, planner, professor emeritus at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, and author of the “Shaping the City” column in The Washington Post, draws on his years of writing to discuss this reactionary approach to architecture.
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Brutalism
Architecture 101
July 31, 2010
Derived from the French term béton brut, the Brutalist movement in architecture is characterized by a predominant use of raw concrete and blocky forms. Susan Piedmont-Palladino, National Building Museum curator and architecture professor at Virginia Tech’s Washington Alexandria Architecture Center, explores this form of architecture that many love to hate.
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