PBS Super Skycrapers Building the Future show noted about the “Cheesegrater” Leadenhall skyscraper building in London. It is a pretty good show about this new building we will see in London.
For those of you interested in British authors, you may be interested in this reading: Get London Reading: London-by the book
Here are the lectures that I was finally record on Mediasite (will likely require OSU log in): Stonehenge and
Stourhead and Salisbury soon to be uploaded.
Readings week 8, required: GreatArchoftheWorld Salisbury Cathedral and Stourhead Reading, NG 6.08 Stonehenge for an introductory reading of Stonehenge
recommended for Week 8: Magna-Carta (this is a longer reading, I put it up if anyone was interested), Smithsonian 9.14 Stonehenge “What Lies Beneath” an expanded understanding beyond Stonehenge from Arch/LArch 2300
Readings week 7, Feb 29: required: Greenwich: Allison_Arch London_2.8.16 Jones+ page 42-43 for Queen’s House
to be uploaded: (one more reading yet to upload) for Wren projects in Greenwich
recommended for Week 8, Feb 29: Bryson_Notes from Small Island_Ch16
Readings week 7, Feb 22: required: Nash in London (Design of Cities 188-201),
to be discussed Thurs Feb 25: Virginia Woolf Kew Gardens: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.
Readings week 5: required: Allison_Arch London_2.8.16 Jones+ Inigo Jones pg 34-37, St. Pauls Covent Garden pg 38, Banqueting House 40-41
recommendations: Tower of London & Westminster Abbey pg 30-31 (from the reading above for reference)
Readings week 4: required: Wren at St. Pauls pg 46-52 Allison_Architects and Arch of London_Wren to Pugin
pages 95-106 Saunders_Westmister Abbey
recommended: Hibbert_ StoryofEngland_Tudors102-121 for understanding about the Tudors
Readings week 3 – due Mon Jan 25: Hall_Roman London (Hall, Jenny. Roman London, London as the capital of Roman Britain pg 4-13, 18-21) and Saunders St Pauls
Reading week 1 – due Thurs Jan 14: Sasek_This is London