RESOURCES for ARCHITECTURE COLLEGES and LIBRARIES

1. Online website: PIDGEON DIGITAL. (For full details see "Online website and computers section")
2. Tape/slide talks by eminent architects
3. Slide sets, Digitisation of slides.
4. Videos
5. Art 

2. Tape-slide talks by eminent Architects (mostly now on PIDGEON DIGITAL)

NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW
Industrial Architecture PAV 796
Grimshaw confines himself to the industrial side of the work he did with his one-time partner Terry Farrell, concentrating on flexibility and adaptability of the buildings,the way they satisfy the users, and the technology devised to suit the jobs.

CEDRIC PRICE
Technology is the answer, but what was the question? PAV 798
The title of Price's talk is typical of him, a man constantly searching, questioning, rethinking. He has been called 'the most cerebral of British architects'.

PHILIP DOWSON
A Question of Scale PAV 7910
Philip Dowson is a founder partner of Arup Associates. In this talk he expounds the approach to architecture that is common to all his work.

MOSHE SAFDIE
Safdie in Jerusalem PAV 797
Moshe Safdie discusses his architectural development and describes various designs he did for Jerusalem.

PETER BLUNDELL-JONES
Hans Scharoun PAV 7912
Peter Blundell-Jones, architect and teacher, provides a further exposition of his critical monograph on Germany's great expressionist architect.

DEREK WALKER
New directions PAV 805
As a sequel to his Milton Keynes talk, Walker ponders new directions which architecture and planning could take.

JOHN DONAT
Architecture through the lens PAV 806
John Donat, who trained as an architect but has preferred to photograph buildings, lets us into some of the secrets of his success.

CESAR PELLI
Skin and bones PAV 807
Cesar Pelli specialises in 'thin skin' buildings, an architecture of enclosure rather than of weight.

JOSEPH RYKWERT
The orders ot architecture PAV/8202
Professor Joseph Rykwert, architect- trained author and teacher, discusses how the Orders of Architecture came into being.

EDUARDO PAOLOZZI
Working with architects PAV 8203
The Scottish-born artist, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tape slide has worked with architects off and on since 1950, making murals, wall panels of fibreglass, tapestry or mosaic, sculptures and reliefs in metal or stone; even working at a very large scale.

KENNETH FRAMPTON
The Isms of architecture PAV 8205
Ken Frampton categorises architecture of the early 80's under five isms - productivism, rationalism, structuralism, populism, and regionalism.

LAWRENCE HALPRIN
The ecology of form PAV 8206
Lawrence Halprin is profoundly influenced by the process by which natural environments arise. He explains how he translates this into everyday life, not by copying nature's shapes and materials, but by producing abstractions of the processes.

ADOLFO NATALINI
Time and memory PAV 8214
Architect Adolfo Natalini, founder member in 1966 of the Italian group Superstudio, when designing individual buildings, gives them personality by the use of metaphor and allegory
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PAOLO PORTOGHESI
The marriage of past and present PAV 8305
The Italian Professor Paolo Portoghesi looks for ways in his architecture to express memory of the past, and to preserve the identity of a city.

JOHN JOHANSEN
Ad hoc architecture PAV 8306
For John Johansen architecture is a service art, with buildings as settings for Man's daily rituals. He designs building- frameworks and hangs rooms etc. onto them in an ad hoc way, geared to change.

RICHARD ENGLAND
The spirit of place PAV 8313
England shows how he has developed an architecture focused on the particular qualities of his native Malta, an architecture of evolution and continuity.

ANDREW MacMILLAN AND ISI METZSTEIN
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
In 2 parts: PAV 8315-8316
MacMillan and Metzstein use Mackintosh's most famous building. Glasgow School of Art, as a vehicle to study CRM's architectural inventions. £90

TOM BEEBY
Scales of imagery PAV 8404
Tom Beeby maintains that architects must learn to use available materials and techniques in a more evocative way than heretofore. He spells out scales of interpretation he has dealt with regarding images in the work of his Chicago practice Hammond Babka Beeby.

MYRON GOLDSMITH
The visual solution PAV 8406
Chicago architect Myron Goldsmith, one-time partner in Skidmore Owings Merrill, learned from Mies and Nervi that structure is the basis of architecture. But his goal has always been to solve the enuineerina Droblems in a visual way.

EDWARD LARRABEE BARNES
Community, context and scale PAV 8407
The New York architect E.L. Barnes learned from an early visit to Persia and Greece about the importance of human scale and the continuity in time and context.

RICHARD MEIER
Interplay of space and place PAV 8506
RM's concern for the nature of space whose definition is related to place, situation and history, lies at the root of his ideas about the making of any work of architecture.

JAMES WINES & ALISON SKY
Apocalypse and Utopia PAV 8511
James Wines and Alison Sky are partners in SITE, an inter-disciplinary design organisation for exploring new ideas for the visual environment. The information they start with is recycled through an art-making process, letting it be invaded by ideas which totally change the context of the building.

MICHAEL SCOTT
Your mother Eire is always young PAV 8600
The late, much loved Dubliner Michael Scott, reminisces about his architectural life before and after World War II, his acting and involvement with the theatre, and his patronage of Irish arts.

HANS HOLLEIN
Ritual and transformation PAV 8604
The Austrian Professor Hans Hollein, architect and artist and a winner of the Pritzker prize, explains how he sees architecture as ritual and how he uses transformation, whether of scale, materials or function, as a basic design tool.

JOHN OUTRAM
The idea of the column PAV 8605
John Outram, perhaps the most original architect working in Britain today, describes the very personal architectural language which he has devised, his designs encompassing myth and reality, classicism and modernity.

ANTHONY HUNT
Refining the structure PAV 8612
Engineer Anthony Hunt, a disciple of Wachsmann, Eames and Samuely, and much influenced by high-performance yacht designers, has worked with Foster and Rogers and other technologically- minded architects. He aims to use minimum structure in an elegant and clear way. He has recently joined his practice with that of the architects YRM.

DAVID ROCK
Making things happen PAV 8615
David Rock is someone who has never been stumped for ideas on how to work as an architect in times of severe economic recession, finding in the process that this required new forms and patterns of economic activity, of professional service and of professional codes.

EVA JIRICNA
Form tollows function PAV 8616
The Czech-born architect Eva Jiricna, one of the most talented architects working in the UK today, is best known for a series of beautiful shops, restaurants and flats which she has completed in London and elsewhere.

TED HAPPOLD
The nature of engineering PAV 8701
Engineering in nature PAV 8702
Engineer Ted Happold (Professor at Bath University and founder partner, of Buro Happold) collaborated with Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano on the Centre Pompidou, and he has always worked with Frei Otto on the design of tented structures and long- span structures. He says structural engineering is concerned with learning from nature about the forces of action, about ecology and about the characteristics of materials.

CRAIG HODGETTS
Space activated by technology PAV 8707
The career of Craig Hodgetts combines early technological training with a fertile imagination in a mixed output of architectural work at any scale.

RIFAT CHADIRJI
An internationalised tradition in architecture PAV 8800
All of the Iraqi architect Rifat Chadirji's built work is in the Middle East and dates from the 60's and 70's. He discusses how he strove to internationalise the local traditional ways of building.

WALTER BOR
In step with planning in China PAV 8804
Walter Bor, eminent planner and member of the British firm Llewelyn Davies Weeks Bor, was consulted by the Chinese on the plan of the city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. He describes the process.

JULIUS POSENER
The dynamic of Erich Mendelsohn PAV 8805
Professor Posener, author, teacher and critic, worked in Mendelsohn's studio and knew him well. It is the last phase of Mendelsohn's work in Germany that interests him most, when Mendelsohn, realising that he did not have the technical ability to carry out his remarkable sketches, turned to what was buildable. Kroll: housing, Marne-la-Vallee Happold: Munich aviary 'tent'. 

LESLIE MARTIN
A constructive point of view PAV 8810
The buildings of Sir Leslie Martin, Royal Gold Medallist and one-time Professor of Architecture at Cambridge, continue to demonstrate the best aspects of Modern thought. He bases his talk on three recent examples of his work.

JOHN THOMPSON
Working with the community PAV 9201
JT's firm, Hunt Thompson are well-know for the work they have done with the community, getting to know the people and their needs and working with them, learning to understand the complex relationship between the physical and the social environment.

COLIN STANSFIELD-SMITH
A caring tradition PAV 9210
Stansfield-Smith heads the Hampshire County Architect's Dept. A confirmed modernist, Stansfield-Smith says in his recorded talk that his architecture is about the caring tradition started by Alvar Aalto in Paimio.

BERNARD TSCHUMI 
Space, Event, Movement PAV9601
Bernard Tschumi is at the same time artist, architect, author, urbanist, researcher and teacher, based in New York where he carries out the dual rôle of practising architect and Dean at Columbia University. Son of a Swiss father and a French mother, he was educated in Zurich, and taught for many years at the AA, London. Deeply influenced by film makers he realised that architecture is also concerned with space and action. This led to many articles and his book 'The Manhattan Transcripts' whose ideas were later tested in his winning entry to the international competition for Parc de la Villette, Paris in 1982. In this talk, he describes this and two other prizewinning schemes: his design for Lausanne, consisting of four inhabited bridges that span the valley from top to bottom; the Groningen video gallery in Holland built entirely from glass.

MARK WHITBY
Transfer Of Technology PAV 9606 
Mark Whitby graduated in engineering in 1942 and, after working with Harris & Sutherland, Buro Happold and Tony Hunt, set up his own practice Whitby & Bird. He is one of the new breed of structural engineers who really understand the architect's approach, and he has worked with most of the major firms in Britain. He describes projects he has been involved in with them, as well as some which he and Bird have generated themselves.

MARK MACK 
Easy living PAV 9709
The Californian Austrian architect Mar Mack has been much influenced by Loos and Barragan and this shows in all the houses he has designed in USA and Japan. Colour plays a large part in his work.

GORDON BENSON (Benson Forsyth)
Genesis of a museum PAV 2002
To design a museum for Edinburgh which reflects the city’s geology, topography, history, development and characteristics, which has the genetic structure of the city of which it is a part, as well as the genes of what it is itself; to house the country’s historical collections of artefacts in such as way as to reflect their place of origin, period and category.
These were the problems that the architects posed themselves when doing their design for the Museum of Scotland competition which the subsequently won in 1996. The building was completed in 1999.

JULIA BARFIELD/DAVID MARKS and JANE WERNICK
THE LONDON EYE and beyond--2 packs PAV 0102-3 
David Marks and his wife/partner Julia Barfield dreamed up the idea of a Millennium Wheel on London’s South Bank, designed it and, by dint of sheer determination, saw it through to completion with the backing of British Airways. In GENESIS OF THE LONDON EYE AND BEYOND, Julia Barfield tells the enthralling story of its conception and growth, while Jane Wernick, in IN TUNE WITH ARCHITECTS, fills in the details of the structural development. Both speakers also tell of other work they have done before or since.

MASTERS OF ARCHITECTURE
DIGITISATION IN PREPARATION
A digital online subscription website, similar to PIDGEON DIGITAL (see above), with the alternative of  a one-off sale on DVD's, is in preparation for the slide sets in the Masters of Architecture series, most of which are described below. We are still formulating our plans, but tentatively they are as follows:Price of an institutional site licence: We think it will be a 3-year licence; Year 1 about £500 and Years 2 & 3 about £400 each.
Price for one-off sale on DVD's: Probably about £3,500. 
The licence: Very similar to the one for Pidgeon Digital, but adapted for slides only.
The coverage: The complete Masters of Architecture series + some additional suitable slide sets. Probably about 6,000 images in all. Also it is intended that there will be regular additions of similar sets of digitised images which will be automatically added to the website without extra charge, or available for purchase as DVD's.

CURRENT LIST OF SLIDE SETS

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Twenty-five buildings or groups of buildings representing Frank Lloyd Wright's work. The buildings covered include the early houses `Falling Water' and `Hollyhock'/Barnsdall, Unity Temple, Taliesien West, the Guggenheim, the Johnson Wax Building and the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo.

130 slides Ref WPA  £115

MUSEUMS 1: HOLLEIN, MEIER, STIRLING
Hans Hollein's State Museum' Monschengladbach, West Germany; Richard Meier's Arts and Crafts Museum, Frankfurt and his High Museum, Atlanta, USA; James Stirling's New State Gallery, Stuttgart.

72 slides Ref WPG £75

OTTO WAGNER
Wagner's major works in Vienna are included - his two villas, the Stadtbahn buildings, the Post Office savings bank, the Steinhof Church, the Linke apartment buildings, and the Kaiserbad Dam control buildings, one of the many installations on the Danube Canal for which he was responsible.

35 slides. Ref WPK. £35

TWENTIETH CENTURY HOUSES 1
Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoie and Villa La Roche Jeanneret; Pierre Chareau’s ‘Maison de Verre’, Paris; Alvar Aalto’s Villa Mairea in Finland; Carlo Scarpa’s Villa Ottolenghi in Italy; Miles van der Rohe’s Tugendhat House in Czechoslovakia; and his Farnsworth House in Illinois, USA; Greene & Greene’s Gamble House; Charles Eames’ House and Studio and Richard Neutra’s Research House – the last three in California.143 slides Ref WPL £125
ALVAR AALTO
Most of Aalto's major buildings - 50 in all, mostly in Finland- including those at Jyvaskyla, Alajarvi, Seinajoki, Otaniemi, the famous Sanatorium at Paimio, the Pensions Building in Helsinki, the theatre and library at Rovaniemi, the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, the Church of the Cross in Lahti, and Aalto's own house and studio in Helsinki.

185 slides Ref WPR £160

KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL
In Berlin: The Altes Museum, the Theatre and the New Guard House; Glienecke Palace group, Humboldt House, St. Paul's Church, Peacock Island.
In Potsdam: Charlottenhof Palace, Garden House etc. at Sans Souci.

108 slides Ref WPS £95

ARNE JACOBSEN
Forty-four buildings or complexes - mainly in Denmark - including the Town Halls for Aarhus and R0dovre; Aalto's summer residence; the SAS Hotel; schools at Gentofte and at R0dovre; the National Bank of Denmark; Elsewhere St Catherine's College, Oxford; and a school in Hamburg.

96 slides Ref WPT £85

LOUIS KAHN
The Yale Art Gallery, the Salk Institute, California, the Kimbell Art Museum, Texas and the Bangladesh Capital complex in Dacca are all featured.

116 slides  Ref WPU  £105

MARIO BOTTA
Nine private houses are included along with a secondary school, the Bank of Gothard, the Ransila office building, a Capuchin library, a municipal gymnasium, an artisan centre - all in the Ticino, Switzerland.

109 slides. Ref WPV. £100

ARATA ISOZAKI In 2 parts:
Part 1: Work in Japan between 1964- 1979, buildings with which Isozaki became leader of Japan's avant- garde.

 72 slides. Ref WPW. £72 

Part 2: Work in Japan between 1980-1985.

90 slides. Ref WPX. £90 Parts 1 and 2 are available together for £140.ERIC GUNNAR ASPLUND

All Asplund's major works including the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm (designed together with Sigurd Lewerentz), the Stockholm Public Library and the Gothenburg Law Courts.

115 slides. Ref WPY. £110

SIGURD LEWERENTZ
Included are the two cemetery chapels (at the Woodland in Stockholm and at Malmo) and two churches (St Mark's, Stockholm and St Peter's, Klippan), also the Villa Edstrand, and social security offices in Stockholm.

68 slides. Ref WPZ £65

ANTONI GAUDI I CORNET
Most of Gaudi's work is included, much of it in Barcelona (with photos by Carlos Flores). The Guell Palace, Pavilions, Chapel and Park; the Casas Vicens, Calvet, Battio, Bellesguard, Mila; the Sagrada Familia Temple; the Teresian Convent; etc.

116 slides. Ref WQA. £110

RALPH ERSKINE In 2 parts.
Part 1: Work mostly in Sweden between 1941 and 1969.

79 slides. Ref WQB. £80 

Part 2: The Byker housing estate and the Stockholm Frescati University Union Building, Sports hall and Library, along with some more housing estates both in Sweden and England - all between 1969 and 1986.

81 slides. Ref WQC. £80 

Parts 1 and 2, 160 slides, are available together for £140.PHILIP JOHNSON
In 2 parts. 
Part 1(1942-1971) includes Johnson's buildings at New Canaan and the Kline Science Tower at Yale. 
Part 2 (1972-87) includes the AT&T Building, New York and the Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles.

150 slides  Ref WQD,E  £135

EERO SAARINEN
Dulles Airport, Washington DC, the TWA Terminal at Kennedy Airport, MIT Chapel in Cambridge, the John Deere offices in Illinois, General Motors Technological Centre in Michigan and many other buildings.

93 slides. Ref WQF. £85

LE CORBUSIER
Part 1: Houses, apartments and hostels, including the Unité d’Habitation in Marseilles, the Maisons Jaoul in Paris, and houses in India.
Part 2: Ronchamp, La Tourette, Chandigarh and other buildings in Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Ahmedabad, Firminy, Zürich and Cambridge, Mass.

204 slides Ref WQG £185

LOS ANGELES
In 2 parts. 
Part 1: Residential. 
Part 2: Non-Residential. Features the work of Craig Eliwood, Frank Gehry, Arata Isozaki, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, Cesar Pelli, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, R.M. Schindler, Eric Moss, John Lautner and others.

256 slides Ref WQL,P  £220

IEOH MING PEI
Includes housing, public and commercial buildings built between 1956-1970, and public and commercial buildings built between then and 1989.

110 slides  Ref WQT  £100

KENZO TANGE
Kenzo Tange's National Gymnasia for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics remain his best work and the peak of 20th century Japanese architecture. Since 1970 his work has been increasingly outside Japan. Included in the slides is his work up to 1981.

70 slides. Ref WQW. £65

JOSEPH MARIA OLBRICH
Olbrich's first and most famous building, the Secession Building in Vienna, was built in 1898. Ten years later he died at the age of 40, having completed a number of outstanding works in Darmstadt. All are included in the slides.

70 slides. Ref WQX. £65

FINLAND
Included is pre-1914 work by Eliel Saarinen, Lars Sonck and Erik Bryggman, but not that of Alvar Aalto who has already featured in the earlier set, WPR.

63 slides. Ref WQY. £60

HERMAN HERTZBERGER
The Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger builds formal frameworks for informal daily use. His work has nothing to do with fashion or style: it is about the reciprocity of human life and habitat, and is full of ideas and of commitment by the architect.

70 slides. Ref WQZ. £65

CARLO SCARPA: The Museo Castelvecchio
Though the Venetian architect started practising in 1927, it was not until the '50s, when he remodelled the Museo Castelvecchio in Verona, that his work began to be appreciated.

132 slides. Ref WRA. £130   

BALKRISHNA DOSHI
Doshi is a key person in the development of a modern Indian architecture that has its roots in tradition.

77 slides. Ref WRB. £70

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH    
The effective years in Charles Rennie Mackintosh's practice were from 1897-1909 when he completed the library wing in the Glasgow School of Art, shown here.

124 slides. Ref WRC. £120     

MUSEUMS 2. BRITAIN: Including the Burrell Museum.
PAV's second collection of Museums includes extensions to the Royal Academy of Arts in London by Foster Associates, the Burrell Museum in Glasgow by Barry Gasson, the Tate Clore Gallery in Liverpool by Stirling Wilford Associates, the National Gallery Sainsbury Wing in London by Venturi Scott-Brown & Assoc.s and the Design Museum in London by Conran Roche.

77 slides Ref WRD £75

LONDON:
Part 1: Large business complexes
Three large complexes are featured: Broadgate in the City, Stockley Park, near Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf in Docklands. The architects whose work is included are: Arup Associates, Norman Foster Associates, Kohn Pederson Fox, Pei Cobb & Partners, Cesar Pelli & Associates, Ian Ritchie, SOM and Troughton McAslan.

86 slides  Ref WRE £85

LONDON:
Part 2: Commercial Buildings
Individual buildings are included by Arup Associates, Peter Foggo, John S Bonnington Partnership, Ralph Erskine, Terry Farrell & Co., Norman Foster Associates, Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners Ltd, RonHerron Associates, Michael Hopkins & Partners, Richard Rogers & Partners Ltd.

88 slides. Ref WRF. £85

NÎMES AND MONTPELIER
Both these southern cities in France owe their recent renaissance to the energy and ambition of their mayors. Major architects whose work is featured are: Bofill, Foster, Gregotti, Kurokawa, Nouvel, Starcke and Wilmotte.

 81 slides. Ref WRG. £80

MUSEUMS 3: NORTH AMERICA & EUROPE
Work by the following architects is included: Aalto, Aulenti, Avery, Behnisch, Bo & Wohlert, Breuer, Erickson, Evans & Shalev, Fehn, Martin, van der Rohe, Piano & Rogers, Quist, Rietveld, TAC, Ungers

176 slides  Ref WRH  £160

NORMAN FOSTER: Stanstead Airport and more
Stansted Airport, the Renault building, Cranfield Institute of Technology library and The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in HK, are among the works featured here by England's greatest architect today.

68 slides. Ref WRI. £65        

JEAN NOUVEL
All the work shown here is in France: the Arab Institute and the CLM/BBDO offices in Paris, the Opera House in Lyons and the Nemaussus housing in Nîmes.

45 slides. Ref WRJ. £45

PARIS
We show a sampling of the city's most interesting recent architecture including work by, among others, Adrien Fainsilber, Christian de Portzamparc, Richard Meier, Otto von Spreckleson, I.M. Pei, Chemetov/Huidobro, Oscar Niemeyer, Renzo Piano, Piano & Rogers, Harry Seidler, Kenzo Tange - but not Jean Nouvel who is separately published (see WRJ).

168 slides. Ref WRK. £180

HARRY SEIDLER
Of Seidler's beautifully constructed and detailed work we include three office towers and a penthouse in Sydney as well as his home in nearby Killara, and the one-time home for his mother; a monumental group of offices in Canberra and Hong Kong Club in Central Hong Kong, adjacent to the banks by Norman Foster and I.M. Pei.

75 slides. Ref WRL. £75

SYDNEY & CANBERRA
Unquestionably, the Sydney Opera House by Jörn Utzon is one of the recent wonders of the world, and it is shown here in considerable detail; also work by Philip Cox, John Andrews and Mitchell Giurgola Thorp (whose Parliament building dominates the Canberra skyline), and several other architects. Harry Seidler is not included here as he is separately published.

103 slides. Ref WRM. £100

FOUNTAINS

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TWENTIETH CENTURY HOUSES: 2
Houses by Lutyens, Saarinen (Eero and Eliel), Connell Ward & Lucas, Fry, McGrath, Gwynne, Le Corbusier, Lutyens, Mendelsohn & Chermayeff, Rietveld and Taylor & Green.

129 slides. Ref WRO. £125

TWENTIETH CENTURY HOUSES: 3. 1950's to 1990's
Twelve houses built in Britain between the 1950's and 1990's are included in this collection by architects such as Richard Rogers, John Miller, John Winter, Michael Hopkins and Tom Jestico; together with one little-known house in Germany by Richard Neutra. The slides reflect a wide range of styles.

79 slides. Ref WRP. £80

VICTOR HORTA and his Contemporaries
Victor Horta (1861-1947) was more than just an exponent of the Art Nouveau style. His buildings exhibit highly original plans, many of which incorpOrate delightful light wells and internal winter gardens. In addition to the slides shown of his buildings in Brussels, details are included of the work in the same city of some of his contemporaries. Balat's Royal Glass Houses were one of the main influences on Horta.

53 slides Ref WRQ £50 

U.S.A. WEST COAST 
Architects in California and Washington, including Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Eric Moss, Michael Rotondi (RoTo). 

94 Slides Ref.WRR £90

OXFORD UNIVERSITY 
A collection of the best buildings, mostly since the ‘70’s; architects include: ABK, ACP, Arup, Hodder, Jacobsen, Maccormac, Martin, Mather, Powell & Moya, A & P Smithson, and Stirling. 

85 Slides Ref.WRS £80

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY & CITY 
Faculty and college buildings, one or two earlier than the 90’s, include those by Allies & Morrison, Arup Associates, E. Cullinan, J. Dixon & E. Jones, R. Erskine, Evans & Shalev, D. Lasdun, MacCormac & Partners, L. Martin, J. Outram, Powell & Moya, Stirling & Gowan, V. Heyningen & Howard, and a building by M.Hopkins for neither “town” or “gown”. 

113 slides Ref WRT £110  

ROTTERDAM
Rem Koolhaas’ designs for the Museum Park and the Kunsthal, plus Jo Coenen’s Netherlands Architecture Institute, Ben van Berkel’s dynamic suspension bridge, and Adriaan Geuze’s Schouwbergplein have all contributed to placing Rotterdam firmly on the world’s architectural map. 

138 slides Ref WRU £135 

AMSTERDAM
Examples of work by architects of the Amsterdam school are included as well as Renzo Piano’s “New Metropolis; Science and Technology Center” that dominates the harbour, and the interesting housing development by Joe Coenen and Hans Kollhof on the new KNSM Island. 

79 slides Ref WRV £100

BILBAO 
The Basque City of Bilbao in Northern Spain is being transformed into a centre for European trade, tourism and culture. Already completed are the new metro system by Norman Foster, a bridge by Santiago Calatrava and the spectacular Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry.

83 slides Ref WRW £80

MUSEUMS No. 4: UK, Switzerland, Germany
Pidgeon Audio Visual’s fourth set of Museum slides includes Norman Foster’s American Air Museum at Duxford (UK), Renzo Piano’s Foundation Beyeler in Basel, Mario Botta’s Tinguely Museum also in Basel, and Fran Gehry’s Vitra Center in Basel and Vitra Design across the border in Weil-am-Rhein 

66 slides Ref WRX £65

LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) is recognised as one of the four founding masters of twentieth century architecture – the other four being Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto (See PAV WPA, WQH and WPR respectively).  Mies’ great contribution to architecture was celebrated in 1999 by exhibitions at the Vitra Museum in Weil-am-Rhein, Germany and at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow; and in 2000, at both the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Canadian Institute of Architecture in Montreal.  

85 slides Ref WRY £85

MUSEUMS 5: EDINBURGH
1999 is the year that Scotland was granted her own Parliament. It was also the year that a unique new museum to chronicle Scottish history was opened in Edinburgh. Won in competition it was designed by the architects Benson and Forsyth (see PAV 9213). Its role is to augment Scotland’s self-knowledge and emergent sense of national identify. The architects have taken the facts of the collection of exhibits and dramatised their presentation, at the same time linking the whole into Edinburgh’s incomparable background. Down near Holyrood Palace, opposite the new Parliament building site, another exhibition centre has opened, the William Younger Centre, designed by Michael Hopkins & Partners. Startlingly beautiful in its setting against Salisbury Crags, it gained instant acclaim with its first show "Our Dynamic Earth", by which name the centre is currently known in the city 

93 slides Ref WRZ £90

20TH CENTURY HOUSES: 4
Houses by Elspeth Beard, Richard Burton (ABK), Cullum & Nightingale, Kevin Dash, Alison & Peter Smithson, FRS Yorke
The only thing that these houses have in common is that they are all in England and, despite their widely varying vintage, they have been photographed in the last few years. The earliest one, recently restored, dates from before World War II. The architects designed four of the others for themselves, one being a conversion.

89 slides Ref WSA £85

BERLIN IN TRANSITION (1945-2000)
In Berlin since World War Two there have been several periods of interesting architectural development; for example the Siemenstadt housing in Charlottenburg up to 1952; the Hansaviertel housing in Tiergarten, 1957-1961; the Cultural Forum, 1946-1985; the IBA (International Building Exhibition) 1984-1987. And since then the steady rebuilding of the city which still continues.

121 slides Ref WSB £120

LONDON: ARCHITECTURE INTO THE 21ST CENTURY 
Architects represented: Allies & Morrison, Will Alsop, Brian Avery, Edward Cullinan, Norman Foster, Future Systems, Herzog & De Meuron, Michael Hopkins, John Lacey, Lifschutz Davidson, Marks Barfield and David Morley.
The work of these twelve architects in the late 90’s who are represented here is divided into the categories Civic, Education, Leisure, Sport, Transport, Bridges. 

93 slides Ref WSC £90

REM KOOLHAAS (OMA): HOUSE NEAR BORDEAUX, FRANCE 
The house sits on a hill overlooking the city of Bordeaux. Completed in 1998, it was designed for a couple whose husband was confined to a wheelchair after a severe car accident. 
The house is on 3 levels, each linked by a 3 x 3m hydraulic mobile platform which can lock into or between each level, thus placing mobility for the client at the heart of the scheme. 
The lowest level, containing entrance, family room, kitchen and other everyday facilities, backs south into the hillside and opens north off a walled entrance courtyard with guest quarters and caretaker’s room opposite. On the middle level is the glass-enclosed living area. This opens south onto a covered terrace and extends east into a covered terrace, in the middle of which is a circular steel-clad drum containing the stair to the children’s quarters. In contrast, the top floor is enclosed in a mass concrete box, 25 x 11m, punctured by porthole windows. Here are the bedrooms and washrooms. the parents’ and children’s zones are separated by a central void.

28 slides Ref WSD £35

PAVILIONS by Daniel Libeskind, Toyo Ito and Oscar Niemeyer
Since the year 2000 the Serpentine Gallery in London’s Hyde Park has commissioned internationally famous architects to design a series of temporary pavilions. These were installed for three summer months on the lawn fronting the Gallery and housed a café and a series of debates on urban design. At the close of the season the structures were sold off. The first pavilion was by Zaha Hadid (not featured here), followed by Daniel Libeskind in 2001, Toyo Ito in 2002, and Oscar Niemeyer in 2003.  

36 slides Ref WSE £45

HERZOG & DE MEURON: The Laban Dance Centre, London 
Deptford in S.E. London is a run-down area of wharves, scrap yards, odds and ends of post-industrial industry, council houses, railway lines and bleak roads, and plenty of cheap redundant land. It is here that the Laban Dance Centre has moved from nearby New Cross. It is now the largest contemporary dance centre in the world, designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron and now winner of the 2003 Stirling Prize. 
The west-facing main façade curves gently, focussing on the distant 18th century St. Paul’s church by Thomas Archer. It is fronted by landscaped mounds that act as outdoor rehearsal and performance areas. At the rear the building is protected by Deptford Creek.The exterior façades consist of coloured transparent polycarbonate panels backed by transparent and translucent glass panels. This skin reflects the surroundings by day, but by night the building becomes transparent and glows with colour. 
Because of the importance played by colour in determining rhythm and orientation inside and out, the architects collaborated with the artist Michael Craig-Martin who proposed a palette of magenta, lime and turquoise. The activities of the Centre are distributed on two main levels. On the lower --- which is split in two --- the 300-seat theatre is located in the centre. It is surrounded by café and therapy area (which the library is above), dance studios, offices, etc. The upper level houses most of the 13 studios, accessed from three wedge-shaped corridors. The artist determined the colours to be used. The levels are connected by two spiral stairways, one at each end of the building. 

23 slides WSF £30                     

LANDSCAPE U.S.A. – Photos from Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco and SeattleFrom Manhattan: Battery Park City and Bryant Park. From Los Angeles: Pershing Sq. and Hope Park. From San Francisco: the Embarcadero and Levi Plazas and Yerbabuena. From Seattle: Freeway Park and a number of community arts projects by selected artists. (Hope Park, Embarcadero, Levi and Freeway are all by Lawrence Halprin).

153 slides Ref: PGD  £130

OTHER SLIDE SETS
 ENGLISH AND JAPANESE GARDENS
In England: Stourhead, Stowe, Rousham, Castle Howard, Hestercombe, Hidcote Manor, Sissinghurst and Great Dixter.In Kyoto: the Katsura Imperial Villa, Daisen-in, Ryoanji, and the Kinkaju-ji Golden Pavilion.Photographed by Richard Weston.

96 slides. Ref PGA. £90 --

SOME MORE BRITISH GARDENS
Among the 23 gardens included in this set are Penshurst Place, Castle Drogo, Blenheim Palace, Studley Royal, Chiswick House, Sezincote, Shrubland Park, Reninshaw and the Queen's Garden at Kew. Photographs by Elizabeth Young.

139 slides. Ref PGB. £135

CHINESE GARDENS
Ref PGC


ISLAMIC MONUMENTS OF IRAN
In Isfahan: the Mosques of Shah Abbas and his father-in-law, Hakim and Friday Mosques, two shrines, a'madrassah', minarets, Ali Qapu Pavilion and House of 40 columns. In Shiraz: Friday and Vaquil Mosques, a madrassah, Eram Gardens and the Shiraz Museum.

83 slides. Ref PRM. £80 --

ISLAMIC MONUMENTS OF NORTH INDIA
In or near Agra: Red Fort, Fatehpur Sikri, Itmad-ud-Daulah, Akbar's Mausoleum/Sikandra, and the Taj Mahal. In Delhi: the tombs of Ise Khan and Emperor Humayun, Red Fort and the Friday Mosque.

63 slides. Ref PNM. £60 -- 

THE GREAT ENGINEERS
An exhibition at the RCA in London.] The slides present a balanced view of the legacy of Freeman Fox, Brunel, Bazalgette and the Stephensons, etc.

160 slides. Ref ERD. £175 --

ROMAN ARCHITECTURE: AMPHITHEATRES IN EUROPE AND NORTH AFRICA
Amphitheatres are a building genre where the plan and form are the same, but where the size and materials and complexity vary wildly. Not only that, the sheer number of amphitheatres (there are over 300 of them) and their location throughout the Roman Empire are important facets of the topic.This new slide set includes representative slides from as many individual amphitheatres as possible, with a greater number from particularly important or interesting examples, such as Trier, EI Djem (Tunisia), Pozzuoli, Arles, Merida, Budapest and Rome. 
Slide set prepared by Professor Christopher Schabel, of the University of Cyprus.

116 slides Ref. SCH1 £115

PRE-COLUMBIAN MEXICO
Although the western hemisphere is routinely referred to as the “New World,” complex cultures developed there which were contemporary with classical and medieval Europe. Just south of the border from the United States of America lie the remains of the cities and monumental architecture of several ancient civilizations the architecture in the slides is from the Late Pre-classical period on. For the most part, there are photographs of three types of structures: pyramids, upon which stood temples; ball courts, on which was played a popular ball game; and “palaces”.Produced with an Introduction by Professor Chris Schabel, Dept of History, University of Cyprus.

100 slides  Ref SCH2 £95

MEDIEVAL CISTERCIAN MONASTERIES OUTSIDE FRANCE
This slide set puts emphasis on both the uniformity and the variety of Cistercian architecture. On the one hand, it is organized along the lines of a tour of a typical monastery, starting from the outside and then moving around the interior of the church and claustral buildings. On the other hand, in each section of this typical monastery, there are examples from abbeys in different countries outside France, the order’s heart, and different materials and local conditions did necessitate different architectural solutions. Produced with an Introduction by Professor Chris Schabel, Dept of History, University of Cyprus. 

100 slides  Ref SCH2 £95

TEN CALIFORNIAN ARCHITECTS 

124 slides. Ref: RYM. £115

SKY CITY: AMERICAN INDIAN BUILDINGS
30 slides. Ref: AMI. £30

COUNTRY HOUSES AND STATELY HOMES OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
 R.I.B.A.HEINZ GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
 AN ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTOR: ARTHUR J J AYRES 1902-85

139 colour slides. Ref RXC. £95-- 

THE IRON REVOLUTION. ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND STRUCTURAL INNOVATION. 1780- 1880
This exhibition examined the use of iron in architecture over a century.

71 slides. Ref RYA. £70 

YORKE ROSENBERG MARDALL
Portrait of a practice, including Gatwick Airport, Sainsbury Centre etc.

127 slides. Ref RYN. £115--NOW £57.50

ARCHITECTS' DESIGNS FOR SCULPTURE
Inigo Jones, Kent, Gibbs, C R C Cockerell, Pugin, G G Scott, Lutyens and Lubetkin are among those architects who have designed sculpture. The slides include the work of many of the greatest architects of alltime, together with some of the best- known buildings.

124 slides. Ref RYU. £110

CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON 
Christopher Nicholson (1904-48) was a leading architect and designer of the early Modern Movement in Britain. His most famous works of the thirties were in sympathy with the advanced modern style of his brother Ben Nicholson. 

81 slides. Ref RZB £80

 THE ARCHITECT OF FLOORS: Modernism, art and Marion Dorn designs. 
Dorn’s career spans four decades (1923-1962). As a designer she typified the forces towards change in this century. Her works is to be found in hotels such as the Savoy and Claridges. 

38 slides. Ref RZC £40 

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CHURCH 
This exhibition examined the stylistic and liturgical development of church buildings in Britain since 1914. It is possible to see how architects moved from the highly ornate perpendicular style of the early part of this century to a more severe modern style in response to European influences. 

128 slides. Ref RZD £125 

CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS: Architect errant 
The career of Clough Williams-Ellis (1882-1978) spans a period of momentous change in the architectural history of Britain. His most famous creation was Portmeirion, the extraordinary holiday village built over fifty years on part of his ancestral estate in North Wales.

109 slides. Ref RZE £105 

DRAWING ON DIVERSITY: Women, Architecture and Practise
 Shows the work of British women architects, past and present. What “Drawing on Diversity” finds is that the woman architect is actually a multiple persona undertaking many activities. The slide set features many interesting examples: in a fiasco to equal the 19th Century Foreign Office debacle, Zaha Hadid’s designs for Cardiff Opera House were put through two competitions, winning both and then were not used. 

151 slides. Ref RZF £145

COLIN ST JOHN WILSON: A retrospective 
The contribution which architects have made to the design of commercial stands, propaganda shows, and exhibition pavilions is evident from their work on trade and commercial exhibitions, international exhibitions, empire exhibitions, wartime and propaganda exhibitions, architecture and design exhibitions. The slide covers the entire twentieth century, concentrating on the period from the 1930s to the 1960s, the heyday of British exhibition design. 

131 slides. Ref RZG £125

THOMAS ALLOM (1804-1872) 
During the 1830s Allom became known as a skilful perspectives, much employed by Charles Barry, architect of the new houses of Parliament and remodelling of Highclere Castle, Hampshire. His most lasting monument is the picturesque layout and architecture of the Ladbrokes Estate in West London, dating from the early 1850s.

71 slides. Ref RZI £65

THE ART NOUVEAU ARCHITECTURE OF RIGA 
The art nouveau architecture of Riga, capital of Latvia, is little known in Western Europe and is only now emerging from the long isolation of that country behind the Iron curtain. Influenced by developments in Austria and Germany at the end of the 19th century, “the lush organic forms of art nouveau were developed into a distinctive local style expressive of nascent Latvian nationalism as Riga rapidly expanded in the decade before the First World War. 

88 slides. Ref RZJ £90

4. VIDEOTAPES 

RALPH ERSKINE
An egalitarian architecture Erskine describes many housing schemes, the Vasa Bus Terminal/World Trade Centre in Stockholm, the Skanska HQ building in Gothenburg, and his latest office project in London, The Ark.

44 mins. Ref PAV 9001. £29.95 

PETER FOGGO
Broadgate
Foggo describes the genesis and realisation of the first 4 phases of the Broadgate complex in the City of London.

16 mins. Ref PAV 8902. £29.95 

FUTURE SYSTEMS
Concern for tomorrow, Future Systems is the London-based practice of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete. Their architecture is inspired by space spin-offs, aircraft design, high-tech industries, materials and methods of joining. The recording is of a recent conversation Jan and Amanda had with critic Martin Pawley and Arup engineer Andrew Sedgwick.

45 mins. Ref PAV 9108. £29.95 

RON HERRON
Imagination
Herron describes the new headquarters he has designed for Imagination, the company of which he was a director. He has created a truly magical place by tenting over the space between two refurbished Edwardian buildings.

46 mins. Ref PAV 9003. £29.95 

PIERS GOUGH (CZWG)
The built idea Gough and his partners have provided London with some of its most witty architectural statements.

31 mins. ref PAV 9000. £29.95
See also slide set 'English Extremists' (RXT)

KEN YEANG
Bioclimatic Skyscrapers Yeang describes the striking low- energy tall buildings which he and his partner R. Hamzah have built in Malaysia and other parts of Asia.

11 mins. Ref PAV 9403V. £19.95

5.  Art -- Videos and Slide sets

VIDEOS

“MUSIC AND SOCIETY” – ASIAN INSIGHTS A Series of 30 minute videotapes from DEBEN BHATTACHARYA. PAL/ VHS, with descriptive booklets. 
NOW £19.95 each. Titles include

BC3V THE ISLE OF TEMPLES: BALI Filmed in Bali, the Hindu island, this illustrates the day-to-day life of the islanders, their folksongs and Gamelan orchestras.

BC4V THE LAND OF SMILES: THAILAND This film on Thai folk songs and dances leads up to the performance of the classical Ramekin dance-drama

BC5V SILK AND STRINGS: TAIWAN The film illustrates the Chinese silk-stringed zithers and folk-dances, leading up to the performance of a Peking Opera

HB1V RAGA The film illustrates how the complex Raga system is founded on the simple archaic types of folk song and on Hindu religious chants

HB2V KRISHNA IN SPRING A recording in image of the gloriously colorful and age-old Festival of Spring, which tells through music and dance, the story, part religious, part pagan of the Lord Krishna

HB3V PAINTED BALLAD OF INDIA In a village in Rajasthan, the art of painting the 8-metre horizontal cross is examined by this film. It then moves to West Bengal to a hamlet of painters and artisans

LB1V ECHOES FROM TIBET This video examines the life and culture of Tibetan and Ladakhi villagers. Set in the high snow ranges of the Western Himalayas, the film shows the social and religious customs – Buddhism and Tibetan script.

LB2V THE CHANTING LAMA This production captures the essence of the cultural life of Tibetan Buddhists through an examination of religious rites. Opening at the main temple of Daramsala, this video takes us through the rituals and music of the Tibetans of Northern India.

BI7V ECSTATIC CIRCLE The Dervishes in Turkey are seen against a background of Islamic folk art and culture.

BC1V BUDDHA AND THE RICE-PLANTERS This video portrays the character of the people of Sri-Lanka, their devotion to religion, tolerance and happiness. Sinhalese village life, folklore, religious rites, dance and art are all explored

BC2V JESUS AND THE FISHERMAN The Portuguese occupation of the Sri-Lanka coast in the 16th century, brought Catholicism to fishing villages

HB4V THE COSMIC DANCE OF SHIVA Shiva, the Hindu god of creation, is also the lord of the dancers. In this film, through Shiva’s dance, we see the timeless quality of Indian art.

HB5V WAVES OF JOY: ANANDALAHARI A Film on the religious Baul poets and singers of Bengal. Shot in the West Bengali village named Kenduli.

HB6V FACES OF THE FOREST: THE SANTALS OF WEST BENGAL A film about the aboriginal community of the Santals, its social habits, religious ceremonies and day-to-day life.

HB7V THE ADAPTABLE KINGDOM: MUSIC AND DANCE IN NEPAL A film on the Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas, where tribal animism, Buddhism and Hinduism live in harmony.

SLIDE SETS AT £35 PER SET

From China: 
COMMUNES AND COMMERCE IN CHINA -- 5 SETS
Ref. CWA
 
MUSIC AND DANCE OF CHILDREN -- 3 SETS
Ref. CWB
 
ASPECTS OF CHINESE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE -- 5 SETS
Ref. CWE
 
From India: 
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF INDIA -- 7 SETS
Ref. BHC
 
COSTUME AND JEWELLERY OF INDIA -- 8 SETS
Ref. BHG