architecture
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand (now president of the Long Now Foundation) uploaded all six parts of his 1997 documentary How Buildings Learn to Google Video last year. Here’s what he said about it This six-part, three-hour, BBC TV series aired in 1997. I [Stewart Brand] presented and co-wrote the series; it was directed by James Muncie, with [...]
Dan Cruickshank’s Adventures in Architecture: Death
A bit of a delay on this one, as the iPlayer stream didn’t appear for a good couple of hours after broadcast yesterday. If you can cope with an hour of Dan Cruickshank’s oooh-gosh-blimey-cripes presenting style – truly, he is what Molesworth would have grown up to be – this second programme in his culture [...]
Reyner Banham loves Los Angeles
In heated staff meetings here at Watchification HQ, usually over custard creams in Charlie Drake (we’ve named the conference rooms after TV stars of old), we’ve been wondering how to develop the site. We’ve been talking about looking beyond iPlayer for full-length programmes to embed here. It’s tricky because the other mainstream broadcasters haven’t got [...]
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