Architecture Biography

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    • By: Ada Louise Huxtable
    • Narrated by: Carrington Macduffie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for The New York Times comes an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of the world-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright....

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    • The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
    • By: Paul Hendrickson
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 24 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • From the award-winning and nationally best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat and Sons of Mississippi - an illuminating, pathbreaking biography that will change the way we understand the life, mind, and work of the premier American architect....

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    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Discover the key architectural concepts behind the world's most incredible buildings and structures....

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    • The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dalí
    • By: Sue Roe
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dalí’s Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years unfolded, the Surrealists found ever more innovative ways of exploring the interior life....

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    • Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
    • By: Katherine Clarke
    • Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • To look south and skyward from Central Park these days is to gaze upon a physical manifestation of tens of billions of dollars in global wealth: a series of soaring spires stretching from Park Avenue to Broadway....

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    • A History in 100 Buildings
    • By: Dan Cruickshank
    • Narrated by: Dan Cruickshank
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Journeying through time and place, from the ancient Egyptian pyramids to the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan, renowned architectural historian Dan Cruickshank explores the most impressive and characterful creations in world architecture....

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    • The Life of Louis Kahn
    • By: Wendy Lesser
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia....

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    • A Carpenter's Notes on Life & the Art of Good Work
    • By: Mark Ellison
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A visionary carpenter shares meditations on work, creativity, and design, revealing powerful lessons on building a meaningful life through his experience constructing some of New York’s most iconic spaces....

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    • The Man Who Built the Bauhaus
    • By: Fiona MacCarthy
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Fiona MacCarthy challenges the image of Gropius as a doctrinaire architectural rationalist, bringing out the visionary philosophy and courage that carried him through a politically hostile age....

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    • My Life in Architecture
    • By: Moshe Safdie
    • Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Over more than five decades, Moshe Safdie has built some of the world's most influential and memorable structures. If Walls Could Speak takes listeners behind the veil of an essential yet mysterious profession to explain through Safdie's own experiences how an architect thinks and works....

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    • A Biography of John Paul Eberhard, FAIA
    • By: Barbara Eberhard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Maverick for the Built Environment is a biography of my father. A trained architect, he felt that architecture, indeed all engineering disciplines,...

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    • The Giga Brain
    • By: Leo Lexicon
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • He was described as one of the only person smarter than Einstein, by no less than Eugene Wigner, a Nobel-Prize winning physicist, who knew both of ...

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    • The Eiffel Tower (The Story Behind the Name)
    • By: Sharon Katz Cooper
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Have you ever seen the Eiffel Tower? Gustave Eiffel’s tower is one of the most recognized landmarks in the world, but it wasn’t an easy path to turn his idea into a reality....

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    • A History and a Memoir
    • By: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today....

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    • The Biography, Trade and Enterprise
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-02-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Trade and Enterprise explores London as a center for international trade, finance, and culture....

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    • Memories and Insights from Ken Tate
    • By: Ken Tate, Duke Tate
    • Narrated by: Andrew Rowe
    • Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is celebrated architect Ken Tate’s creative memoir about his life....

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    • Royal House of Windsor Series
    • By: Helen Cathcart
    • Narrated by: Lorna Bennett
    • Series: The Royal House of Windsor
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
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    • Meticulously researched, royal chronicler Helen Cathcart paints a vivid picture of the evolving architecture, changing decor, and esteemed inhabitants of Royal Lodge from earliest days through to the mid-twentieth century....

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    • Why He Matters More Than Ever
    • By: John Higgs
    • Narrated by: John Higgs
    • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The visionary poet and painter William Blake is a constant presence throughout contemporary culture - from video games to novels, from sporting events to political rallies and from horror films to designer fashion....

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