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  Dan Cruickshank's: Adventures in Architecture: Paradise

  Historian Dan Cruickshank looks at buildings that evoke the image of heaven across religions and cultures like Turkey's Suleymaniye Mosque, a building that evokes the gates of paradise.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/455-dan-cruickshank-s

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  Dan Cruickshank's: Adventures in Architecture: Power

  Historian Dan Cruickshank examines buildings as gigantic statements of power by visiting palaces in Turkey, Romania, and the American South.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/462-dan-cruickshank-s

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  Dan Cruickshank's: Adventures in Architecture: Dreams

  Historian Dan Cruickshank explores architecture with idealistic intent, like the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, where society dreamt of reforming criminals into decent men, only to find their techniques made them mad.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/463-dan-cruickshank-s

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  Dan Cruickshank's: Adventures in Architecture: Death

  Historian Dan Cruickshank travels to the Czech Republic, revealing the macabre tale of a chapel decorated with human bones.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/452-dan-cruickshank-s

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  Dan Cruickshank's: Adventures in Architecture: Disaster

  Historian Dan Cruickshank explores buildings shaped and threatened by disaster. He visits the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan, a monument to peace and tolerance in the midst of a war zone.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/458-dan-cruickshank-s

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  Dan Cruickshank's: Adventures in Architecture: Connections

  Historian Dan Cruickshank sets out to reveal how architecture enables people to live together across the world by visiting Rockefeller Center in New York and the Dharavi slum in Mumbai.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/461-dan-cruickshank-s

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  Dan Cruickshank's: Adventures in Architecture: Pleasure

  Historian Dan Cruickshank explores how architecture gives us pleasure, visiting the luxurious Taj hotel in India, a fantasy castle in Germany, and the hedonist surrounds of an ancient Pompeii brothel.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/464-dan-cruickshank-s

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  Visions of Space: Albert Speer

  Eminent art critic and broadcaster Robert Hughes explores the work of Albert Speer, known as 'Hitler's architect,' whose work was inspired by the power of the state.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/400-visions-of-space

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  Visions of Space: Mies Van Der Rohe

  Eminent art critic and broadcaster Robert Hughes explores the work of architect Mies Van der Rohe, who designed New York's Seagrams Building, which became the blueprint for the modern office building.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/398-visions-of-space

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  Dan Cruickshank's: Adventures in Architecture: Beauty

  Historian Dan Cruickshanks explores how humanity has created beauty through architecture by building an igloo in Greenland and scaling the world's biggest Buddha in China.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/449-dan-cruickshank-s

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  Visions of Space: Antoni Gaudi

  Eminent art critic and broadcaster Robert Hughes explores the work of architect Antoni Gaudi, who used space to testify to the power of religion through the cathedrals he designed in Spain.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/399-visions-of-space

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  Frank Lloyd Wright: Murder, Myth and Modernism

  Frank Lloyd Wright revolutionized American architecture but his success was almost destroyed by scandal and personal tragedy. This documentary tells the story of that turbulent time, and how Wright rebuilt his life, literally, from ashes.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/257-frank-lloyd-wright

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  Art

  http://ovationtv.com/pages/8-art

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  Donald Judd's Marfa Texas

  In Donald Judd's last interview, the sculptor and minimalist artist discusses his unique aesthetic, his dislike of contemporary architecture, and his passionate quest for the perfect exhibition setting for his large works of art.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/8-donald-judd-s-marfa-texas

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  Designer People: Antonio Ochoa

  Profiles designers all over the globe whose work shapes our lives. This profiles Antonio Ochoa, an architect and interior designer based in Beijing.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/456-designer-people

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  Designer People: Ole Scheeren

  Profiles designers all over the globe whose work shapes our lives. In this episode, German architect Ole Scheeren discusses his design of the CCTV headquarters in Beijing.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/408-designer-people

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  The Belly of an Architect

  Brian Dennehy stars in this moving look at the life of an American architect who starts to find cracks in the foundation of his marriage after moving to Rome with his beautiful young wife.

  http://ovationtv.com/programs/491-the-belly-of-an-architect