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Without Pictures — 87 episodes

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Title
1

Approaches to Form, Hugo Häring

2

Towards a Picturesque Architecture, Martin Steinmann

3

The Grammar of Antiquity, John Summerson

4

The Essentials of Classicism, John Summerson

5

Heavenly Mansions: An Interpretation of the Gothic, John Summerson

6

Adolf Loos and the problem of ornament, Reyner Banham

7

Aldo Rossi's Gallaratese Housing, Peter St John

8

All Buildings are Beautiful, Adam Caruso

9

Architecture Beyond Creation, Pier Vittorio Aureli

10

Architecture and Counterrevolution, Pier Vittorio Aureli

11

From Eclecticism to Doubt, Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici

12

Sigurd Lewerentz and the Dilemma of the Classical, Colin St John Wilson

13

Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City, Aldo Rossi

14

Roof of Air, Porch of the Maidens, Camille Paglia

15

Alberti's Approach to Antiquity in Architecture, Rudolf Wittkower

16

The Getty, Joan Didion

17

Building Materials, Adolf Loos

18

The Common and the Production of Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli

19

Shell, Cladding, Lining, Adam Caruso

20

Reclaiming Modernism, Ilka and Andreas Ruby

21

On the Edge of the Ordinary, Irenee scalbert

22

Platforms and Plateaus, Jorn Utzon

23

Means to an End: the Rise and Fall of the Architectural Project of the City, Pier Vittorio Aureli

24

A Note on the Work of Kersten Geers and David Van Severen, Pier Vittorio Aureli

25

The Aesthetics of Proportion, Umberto Eco

26

The Medieval Aesthetic Sensibility, Umberto Eco

27

Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag

28

The Castellated Home, Kenneth Frampton

29

H&DeM, The Tate Gallery Modern, Tony Fretton

30

The Birth of the Renaissance, Jacques Le Goff

31

Urban Villa Type, Jonathan Sergison

32

The Red House, Tony Fretton

33

Venturi's First, Oliver Lütjens, Thomas Padmanabhan

34

Dark Alcoves, Hidden Niches, and Cozy Corners, Maggie Kelly, 2011

35

Alvar Aalto: Type vs Function, Alan Colquhoun

36

More Money, Less Work by Pier Vittorio Aureli

37

The Monument in the Field, Pier Vittorio Aureli

38

Learning from Architecture, On the approach to Research, Pier Vittorio Aureli

39

Working with Tolerance, Stephen Bates & Jonathan Sergison

40

A Spectacle of Deepest Harmony, Pier Vittorio Aureli

41

After Diagrams, Pier Vittorio Aureli

42

First the Kitchen: Then the Facade, Nicholas Bullock

43

Educating the Masses: Socialist Realist Art, Boris Groys

44

In Hilberseimer’s Footsteps, Pier Vittorio Aureli

45

On the Table, Stephen Bates

46

The Logic of the Plan, Frank Lloyd Wright

47

Mannerism and Modern Architecture, Colin Rowe

48

Discourse on Method part 2, Rene Descartes

49

Notes on Le Corbusier's La Tourette Monastery, Pier Vittorio Aureli & Maria S. Giudici

50

Up Against the Wall: Colin Rowe at La Tourette, Anthony Vidler

51

La Tourette, Colin Rowe

52

Ancient Architecture - Peter Markli

53

Peter Markli, The Labour of the Eye, by Marcel Meili

54

The Urban Villa - Oswald Mathias Ungers

55

Meaning and Tradition, Henco Bekkering

56

On Typology by Rafael Moneo

57

Shifting Foundations Tamar Shafrir

58

Platforms, Pier Vittorio Aureli

59

Geopolitics of the Ideal Villa, Pier Vittorio Aureli

60

The Comfort of Strangeness, Adrian Forty

61

Different Modernities, Adam Caruso

62

Working on the Ruins of Superdutch, Pier Vittorio Aureli

63

A Day at the Beach, Lutyens Padmanabhan

64

But Today We Collect Ads, Alison & Peter Smithson

65

Order, Heinrich Tessenow

66

From New Objectivity to Contemporary Realism, On Diener and Diener

67

Typical Plan, Rem Koolhaas

68

Looking Back Without Anger, Leon Krier

69

The Third Typology, Anthony Vidler

70

Counter-planning from the kitchen, Maria S. Giudici

71

Obstruction, Aureli, Geers, Tattara, Van Severen

72

Rookeries and Model Dwellings, Robin Evans

73

Accidentalism, Josef Frank

74

The Cube, Sol LeWitt

75

Scamozzi is Almost Alright, Kersten Geers

76

From Normality to Abstraction: Diener & Diener's Recent Work, Wilfried Wang

77

The New City (excerpt), Ludwig Hilberseimer

78

Learning from the European City, Roger Diener & Johnathan Sergison

79

Room Non-Room, Florian Beigel & Philip Christou

80

Vernacular Classicism - Alan Colquhoun

81

Living from the Centre, Stephen Bates

82

Separations and Connections, Heinrich Tessenow

83

Ornament, Heinrich Tessenow

84

Cleanliness or Purity in Industrial Products, Heinrich Tessenow

85

The Thickness of Paint, Jonathan Woolf

86

The Autonomy of House Design, Kazuo Shinohara

87

What Does it Mean to Live Today, Peter Markli