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.

The Back Issue Shows of 2007

Season Two: Winter 2007

Listener Feedback at aspire@szilverwolf.com

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Aspire Episode 17: Mar. 04 2007

Ellen Henrietta Richards, sanitary engineer who taught at MIT and advocate of ecology and clean & healthy living. Feedback on the Illusionist and the Prestige and some information on Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse.

ASPIRE EPISODE 17 Notes and Bibliography Information:

Changing Our World, True Stories of Women Engineers, Sybil E Hatch (2006 ASCE)

www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/pwwmh/ma67.htm

http://pds.harvard.edu:8080/pdx/servlet/

http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/exhibits/esr/esr-tributes.html

Wikipedia

Aspire Episode 16: Feb. 25 2007

Architecture of Claude Nicholas Ledoux and Etienne Louis Boullee from the 1700's. Was this the start of Modernism? Also a movie review of the Illusionist, some history from the time of the movie and the Vienna Ringstraße.

ASPIRE EPISODE 16 Notes and Bibliography Information:

A History of Architecture, Spiro Kostof, (1995 Oxford University Press, NY)

Ideal Cities, Ruth Eaton (2001 Antwerp)

www.greatbuilding.com

Wikipedia

Vienna Ringstraße

Aspire Episode 15: Feb. 18, 2007

The Egyptian Revival architecture. Cleopatra; math and science. A few movie reviews and more.

ASPIRE EPISODE 15 Notes and Bibliography Information:

American Homes, Lester Walker (1996 Black Dog & Leverthal Publishing)

A Field Guide to American Houses, Virginia & Lee McAlester (1984 Borzoi Book, NY)

Identifying American Architecture, Blumerson (1981 Morton Company NY)

www.vintagedesigns.com/architecture/egypt/sem/index.htm

Wikipedia

Aspire Episode 14: Feb. 11, 2007

Renaissance Italy; Michelangelo, the Business Man; Leon Battista Alberti and the present day conflict between architects and contractors.

ASPIRE EPISODE 14 Notes and Bibliography Information:

Complete Poems and Selected Letters of Michelangelo, translated by Creighton Gilvert, edited by Robert N Linscott (1963 Princeton New Jersey)

The Ten Books of Architecture, Leon Battista Alberti, the 1755 Edition, (1986 Dover Publications)

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Ross King (2003 Walker & Company)

Basilica, RA Scotti (2006 Penguin Group)

The Ten Books of Architecture, Leon Battista Alberti, the 1755 Edition, (1986 Dover Publications)

A History of Architecture, Spiro Kostof, (1995 Oxford University Press, NY)

Lives of the Popes, Michael Walsh (1998 Salamander Books)

Michelangelo in the footsteps of the Master, Charles J Washington (2001 Advantage Publishing)

Brunelleschi's Dome, Ross King (2000 Penguin Books)

Wikipedia

Some Works of Michelangelo

Aspire Episode 13: Feb. 4, 2007

Could Ancient People have more Technology then we do today? Ancient Technology, The Lost Civilization of Atlantis, Super Bowl Sunday, Natural Disasters, and more Listener Feedback.

ASPIRE EPISODE 13 Notes and Bibliography Information:

Timaeus and Crituas, Plato, (1977 Penguin Books)/

Aspire Episode 12: Jan. 27, 2007

The Tampa Bay Pirate Festival called Gasparilla. We take you to the Pirate Invasion of Tampa Bay. Pirates, Ships, Parrots and more!

ASPIRE EPISODE 12 Notes and Bibliography Information:

http://www.gasparillapiratefest.com/

Gasparilla 2007

Aspire Episode 11: Jan. 20, 2007

City Planning; The planning and influences that shaped the design of Washington DC, USA. Topic includes Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Andrew Ellicott & Benjamin Banneker.

ASPIRE EPISODE 11 Notes and Bibliography Information:

The City in History, Lewis Mumford (1989 A Harvest Book Harcourt Inc)

History of Urban Form before the Industrial Rev. 3rd Ed., A.E.J. Morris (1994 Pearson Education Limited)

Design of Cities, Edmund N Bacon, (1969 Penguin Books)

The City Assembled, Spiro Kostof, (1992 Thames & Hudson Ltd)

Cities Then and Now, Jim Antonion (1999 Chartwell Books)

Seventy Wonders of the Modern World, Neil Parkyn (2002 Thames & Hudson)

A Biographical Dictionary of American Civil Engineers, ASCE (1972 ASCE Historical Publications Vol I)

http://www.cr.nps.gov.lnr/travel

http://www.dcpages.com/history/planning/

Wikipedia

Versailles, France.

Aspire Episode 10: Jan. 13, 2007

More Listener Feedback, Greene & Greene and the Arts and Crafts Movement, an overview of the 19th and the 20th century and more.

ASPIRE EPISODE 10 Notes and Bibliography Information:

http://www.gamblehouse.org/

Aspire Production in Action: Jan. 13, 2007.

Aspire Episode 9: Jan. 7, 2007

Listener Feedback on Ep8 and on Fallingwater - Travel to in your "back yard" sites! Also the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe.

ASPIRE EPISODE 9 Notes and Bibliography Information:

http://www.nemacolin.com/

http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/

http://www.kentuckknob.com/

Conde Nast Traveler Jan. 2007; http://www.cntraveller.com/

Farnsworth House Rough Sketch; Seagram Building, New York, NY

Aspire Episode 8: Jan. 1, 2007

It is 2007 and we start out the new year by talking about video games! The Sims, Final Fantasy XII, Second Life, and Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language". What real life places remind you of video games?

ASPIRE EPISODE 8 Notes and Bibliography Information:

A Pattern Language, Towns, Buildings, Construction, Christopher Alexander (1977 Oxford University Press, New York)

Wikipedia

http://thesims.ea.com/

http://www.square-enix.com/

Hironobu Sakaguchi ; http://www.mistwalker.info/

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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.

The Back Issue Shows of 2007

Season Two: Winter 2007

Listener Feedback at aspire@szilverwolf.com

or 813-249-9222 (Just Leave a Voice Mail.)

or try the *NEW* Szilverwolf Forum.

BACK TO CURRENT SEASON SHOWS

SEASON ONE 2006

SEASON TWO 2007

SEASON THREE 2007

SEASON FOUR 2007

SEASON FIVE 2007

Aspire Episode 17: Mar. 04 2007

Ellen Henrietta Richards, sanitary engineer who taught at MIT and advocate of ecology and clean & healthy living. Feedback on the Illusionist and the Prestige and some information on Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse.

Aspire Episode 16: Feb. 25 2007

Architecture of Claude Nicholas Ledoux and Etienne Louis Boullee from the 1700's. Was this the start of Modernism? Also a movie review of the Illusionist, some history from the time of the movie and the Vienna Ringstraße.

Aspire Episode 15: Feb. 18, 2007

The Egyptian Revival architecture. Cleopatra; math and science. A few movie reviews and more.

Aspire Episode 14: Feb. 11, 2007

Renaissance Italy; Michelangelo, the Business Man; Leon Battista Alberti and the present day conflict between architects and contractors.

Aspire Episode 13: Feb. 4, 2007

Could Ancient People have more Technology then we do today? Ancient Technology, The Lost Civilization of Atlantis, Super Bowl Sunday, Natural Disasters, and more Listener Feedback.

Aspire Episode 12: Jan. 27, 2007

The Tampa Bay Pirate Festival called Gasparilla. We take you to the Pirate Invasion of Tampa Bay. Pirates, Ships, Parrots and more!

Aspire Episode 11: Jan. 20, 2007

City Planning; The planning and influences that shaped the design of Washington DC, USA. Topic includes Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Andrew Ellicott & Benjamin Banneker.

Aspire Episode 10: Jan. 13, 2007

More Listener Feedback, Greene & Greene and the Arts and Crafts Movement, an overview of the 19th and the 20th century and more.

Aspire Episode 9: Jan. 7, 2007

Listener Feedback on Ep8 and on Fallingwater - Travel to in your "back yard" sites! Also the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe.

Aspire Episode 8: Jan. 1, 2007

It is 2007 and we start out the new year by talking about video games! The Sims, Final Fantasy XII, Second Life, and Christopher Alexander's "A Pattern Language". What real life places remind you of video games?

or try the NEW Szilverwolf Forum.