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Dan Cruickshank's adventures in architecture [videorecording] / written and presented by Dan Cruickshank.

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FilmPublisher number: BBCDVD2573 | BBC WorldwideLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Publication details: [London] : BBC Worldwide, c2008.Description: 2 videodiscs (396 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inOther title:

Adventures in architecture

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Architecture

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Disc 1: -- Beauty -- Death -- Paradise -- Disaster -- Disc 2: -- Connections -- Power -- Dreams -- Pleasure.

Presenter, Dan Cruickshank.Summary: "A global treasure trail of truly amazing buildings. Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank follows a global treasure trail of buildings that have impressed, astonished and delighted us and have changed our perception of the world. On a voyage of discovery, he travels the globe exploring examples of architecture ranging from the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg; the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan; the Hanging Temple in China's Shanxi Province; the Schloss Neuschwanstein in Bavaria; and even an igloo, man's earliest exercise in creating shelter, in Greenland. In each programme, structures from all over the world are dramatically juxtaposed, exposing unexpected connections and demonstrating how architecture in truly great buildings, can reveal our aspirations, ingenuity and beliefs"--Container.

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Disc 1: -- Beauty -- Death -- Paradise -- Disaster -- Disc 2: -- Connections -- Power -- Dreams -- Pleasure.

Presenter, Dan Cruickshank.

"A global treasure trail of truly amazing buildings. Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank follows a global treasure trail of buildings that have impressed, astonished and delighted us and have changed our perception of the world. On a voyage of discovery, he travels the globe exploring examples of architecture ranging from the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg; the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan; the Hanging Temple in China's Shanxi Province; the Schloss Neuschwanstein in Bavaria; and even an igloo, man's earliest exercise in creating shelter, in Greenland. In each programme, structures from all over the world are dramatically juxtaposed, exposing unexpected connections and demonstrating how architecture in truly great buildings, can reveal our aspirations, ingenuity and beliefs"--Container.

DVD ; colour recording system: PAL ; Dolby digital stereo ; regions 2 and 4 ; aspect ratio: 16:9.

In English with English for the hard of hearing subtitles.

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