The podcast audio show about the history of building and design. You will hear about architects, engineers, artists, builders and the designs, structures, buildings, and cities that they create. The show combines history and travel topics with a lively comparison to the industry today.

It's the show that is all about the built and imagined environment.

Aspire is the podcast audio show about the history of building and design. You will hear about architects, engineers, artists, builders and the designs, structures, buildings, and cities that they create. The show combines history and travel topics with a lively comparison to the industry today.

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Aspire Episode 62 : April 24, 2008

Iron & Steel in architecture and engineering. The real designer of the Eiffel Tower and more.
ASPIRE EPISODE 62 Notes and Bibliography Information:

http://music.podshow.com
Simon Lawrence "Ooh La Paris"

A History of Civil Engineering, Hans Straub (1964 MIT Press)

Engineering in History, Kirby, Withington, Darling (1956 McGraw Hill, NY)

Funamentals of Building 3rd Ed., Edward Ailen (1999 John Wiley & Sones NY) Chapter 11

http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/print/index.html

http://www.data.greatbuildings.com

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/
Eiffel Tower Paris France

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Aspire Episode 61 : April 4, 2008

The prolific African American architect of Paul R. Williams from Los Angeles Ca. Architect to the Stars.
ASPIRE EPISODE 61 Notes and Bibliography Information:

http://music.podshow.com
Miss Desmond "Amazing Grace"

Time.com Archives "Something Clients Want" Jan 26, 1948 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,779667,00.html

African American Architects A Biographical Dictionary 1865-1945, Dreck Spurlock Wilson Ed. (2004 Routledge Taylor & Francis Inc New York NY)

http://www.amazinggracemovie.com/song.php

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/

Aspire Episode 60 : March 16, 2008

The wild Florida of old and an update on cats and dogs living together.
ASPIRE EPISODE 60 Notes and Bibliography Information:

http://music.podshow.com
Marc Gunn "What Shall We Do With a Catnipped Kitty"



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Aspire Episode 59 : March 09 2008

An informal walk in Florida looking at Florida Residential Architecture in a Tampa Neighborhood..
ASPIRE EPISODE 59 Notes and Bibliography Information:

A Field Guide to American Houses, Virginia and Lee McAlester (2002 Alfred A Knopf New York NY)

Identifying American Architecture, John J Blumenson (1981 W.W. Norton & Co. New York NY)

Classic Cracker Floridas Wood Frame Vernacular Architecture, Ronald W. Haase (1992 Pineapple Press Sarasota Fl)

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/
Some Buildings and Sites in a Seminole Heights Tampa Florida Neighborhood

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Aspire Episode 58 : Feb 24 2008

Otto Wagner and Odon Lechner. More on the Secessionists of architecture in Vienna and Budapest.
ASPIRE EPISODE 58 Notes and Bibliography Information:

http://music.podshow.com
The Catz in the Hatz™ "Fur Elise...A Marriage of Jazz, Classical and Rock"

A History of Architecture 20th Ed., Sir Banister Fletcher (1996)

The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, James Stevens Curl (2006, Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition)

Vienna, A Guide to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Manfred Wehdorn (2004 Springer Wein New York)

The Architecture of Historic Hungary, Ed. Dora Wiebenson & Jozef Sisa (1998 MIT Press)

Shaping the Great City, Modern Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1937, Ed. Eve Blau &  Monika Platzer (1999 Prestel Verlay, Munich)

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/
Apartment by Otto Wagner and detail of the geometric design in Vienna and detail of Klotild Palace by Kalman Giergi & Floris Korb, Budapest.

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Aspire Episode 57 : Feb 10 2008

A Short Talk about Japanese Gardens, the Zen Garden and Buddha
ASPIRE EPISODE 57 Notes and Bibliography Information:

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Technetium™ "Tibetian Tango"

http://www.learn.bowdoin.edu/japanesegardens

A Japanese Touch for your Garden, Seike, Hudo, Engel (1980, Kodansha Amerca hc.)

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/


On another topic, for more on Budapest Hungary

here is the website for the podcast that we mentioned in this show...

www.budacast.hu

Aspire Episode 56 : Jan 27 2008

Jacopo Sansovino & Piazza San Marco, Another Wild Old Artist of Renaissance Venice
ASPIRE EPISODE 56 Notes and Bibliography Information:

http://music.podshow.com
Kenny Martin "St Marks"

Venice Lion City The Religion of Empire, Garry Wills (2001 Simon & Schuster New York)

A Traveler’s History of Venice, Peter Mentzel (2006 Interlink Books Northampton Massachusetts)

A History of Architecture 20th Ed., Sir Banister Fletcher (1996)

The Architectural History of Venice, Deborah Howard (2005 Yale University Press)

A Guide to the Principal Buildings of Venice, Antonio Salvadori (1995 Canal & Stamperia Editrice)

The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, James Stevens Curl (2006, Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition)

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/
Piazza San Marco, Venice Italy

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Aspire Episode 55 : Jan 20 2008

Tiziano Vecelli or Titian of Venice, One of the Wild Old Artists and Fine Business man of RenaissanceVenice
ASPIRE EPISODE 55 Notes and Bibliography Information:

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Andy Davis "Earth and Venus"

Venice Lion City The Religion of Empire, Garry Wills (2001 Simon & Schuster New York)

A Traveler’s History of Venice, Peter Mentzel (2006 Interlink Books Northampton Massachusetts)

The Architectural History of Venice, Deborah Howard (2005 Yale University Press)

A Guide to the Principal Buildings of Venice, Antonio Salvadori (1995 Canal & Stamperia Editrice)

Living Biographies of Great Painters, Henry Thomas and Dana Lee Thomas (1946 Blue Ribbon Books)

Giorgio Vasari The Lives of the Artists, translated by Julia Conway Bondanella and Pete Bondanella (1991 Oxford Univ. Press)

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/

Aspire Episode 54 : Jan 13 2008

The Train Stations of AJ Cassatt, the works of Daniel Burnham, the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and more.
ASPIRE EPISODE 54 Notes and Bibliography Information:

http://music.podshow.com
Andy Davis "Chicago City of Shoulders"

AIA New York Guide, Norval White & Elliot Willensky(2000 Three Rivers Press; 4th edition)

The Encylopedia of North Amerian Architecture, Janice Anderson (2006 Regency House Publishing Limited UK)

A History of Architecture 20th Ed., Sir Banister Fletcher (1996)

American Architecture, David Handlin (1985 Thames & Hudson New York, NY)

Skyscrapers, Judith Dupre (1996 Black Dog & Leventhal New York NY)

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/

Aspire Episode 53 : Jan 06 2008

Two Famous Pittsburgh Born Cassatt Children who grew up to become designers: Mary Cassatt and Alexander Cassatt
ASPIRE EPISODE 53 Notes and Bibliography Information:

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The Plastic Pals "Hanging in the Louvre"

Mary Cassatt A Life, Nancy Mowell Mathews (1998 Yale University Press)

A Biographical Dictionary of American Civil Engineers, ASCE (ASCE Historical Publications Vol II)

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/

Aspire Episode 52 : Dec. 25 2007

Maya Civilization. The culture, science, city planning, and mysteries. Also the mysterious number 52.
ASPIRE EPISODE 52 Notes and Bibliography Information:

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Allison Crowe "What Child Is This" and Jim Goodrich "The Wassail Song"

The Universal History of Numbers, George Ifrah (2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

A History of Architecture 20th Ed., Sir Banister Fletcher (1996)

http://www.crystalinks.com/mayanarch.html

http://www.indians.org/welker/maya.htm

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/

Aspire Episode 51 : Dec. 09 2007

The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson; Monticello and the University of Virginia.
ASPIRE EPISODE 51 Notes and Bibliography Information:

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Joel Kopischke "Christmas In The Sun"

The Desk Encyclopedia of World History, Edmund Wright Ed. (2006 Oxford University Press New York NY)

A History of Architecture 20th Ed., Sir Banister Fletcher (1996)

American Architecture, David P. Handlin (1985 Thames & Hudson Ltd London)

University of Virginia, Richard Guy Wilson, Sara A. Butler (1999 Princeton Architectural Press, NY)

Jefferson & Monticello The Biography of a Builder, Jack Mclaughlin (1988 Henry Holt & Co., New York)

http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/shorthistory/

http://www.monticello.org/

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