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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture DVD

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What do the buildings we construct say about us as people? Dan Cruickshank travels across the world celebrating different types of architecture and showing how our buildings reveal our aspirations our ingenuity and our beliefs. In each programme buildings from all over the world are dramatically juxtaposed revealing unexpected connections between very different types of architecture. From the Kizhi Cathedral in remote northwest Russia to the convent of St Catherine in Sinai Egypt and themes that range from beauty to power paradise and pleasure this series is a monumental... journey that takes in some monumental structures gradually building an architectural knowledge so that through the series a story of world architecture is told. [show more]

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Released
19 May 2008
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Format
DVD 
Publisher
BBC 
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Runtime
400 minutes 
Features
PAL 
Barcode
5014503257323 
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The complete BBC series in which Dan Cruickshank traverses the globe, celebrating different types of architecture and showing how our buildings reveal our aspirations, our ingenuity and our beliefs. In each programme, buildings from all over the world are juxtaposed, revealing unexpected connections between very different types of architecture. From the Kizhi Cathedral in remote northwest Russia to the convent of St Catherine in Sinai, Egypt, the series is a mammoth journey that takes in some monumental structures, whilst gradually revealing the history of world architecture.