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Architecture Research Basics: Talks, Lectures, Presentations

Archived Lectures

Pidgeon Digital: The online version of The Pidgeon Audiovisual collection of talks by contemporary architects and related designers. The collection was founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon (long-time editor of the influential magazine Architectural Design) and lectures are continually added. (PU ONLY)

Sprio Kostoff ARC170B Spring Lecture: Kostof (1936-1991) was widely recognized as one of the world's leading architectural historians. He taught this, his last course, in the spring of 1991 in the Architecture Department of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design. The 26 lecture course "A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism" covers the period from the Florentine Renaissance to the post-modernism of the late 20th century. Prof. Kostof was known for exposing the relationships between architecture and the people and cultures that built it.and was the author of A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1985), The City Shaped (1991), and The City Assembled (1992).

TED Theme Talks: Architectural Inspiration

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