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Foreword
Read by Larry Wilson
Various
In Mount Rushmore National Memorial
This publication of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of the Black Hills presents the history and description of one of the most …
Preface
Read by ogbog
Harold Speed
In The Practice and Science of Drawing
This book is an attempt to teach beginning students how to draw. Starting out with intuition and vision, Harold Speed explains line and mass…
Preface
Read by David Wales
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
In Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples…
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his remo…
Architecture and the Arts
Read by Kristine Bekere
Eva March Tappan
In When Knights Were Bold
This book is in no degree an attempt to relate the involved and intricate history of the Middle Ages. Its plan is, rather, to present pictur…
Portico
Read by Newgatenovelist
Rubén Darío
In Selected Poems
Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet and the founder of the modernismo literary movement. These English-language translations are…
MIT 4.696 A Global History of Architecture Writing Seminar Spring 2008
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course will study the question of Global Architecture from the point of view of producing a set of lectures on that subject. The course…
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference
Various
University of Oxford Podcasts
Preface
Read by Patrick Randall
George Hodges
In Fountains Abbey; the story of a mediaeval monastery
The story of Fountains Abbey, one of England's most famous medieval monasteries, from its foundation in the twelfth century to its suppressi…
Chapter 3: The Feeling of Art
Read by Phil Benson
Patrick Geddes
In Every Man His Own Art Critic
This collection includes two texts written to accompany two blockbuster art exhibitions: Every man his own art critic at the Manchester Exhi…
Ten Books on Architecture
Read by Fredrik Karlsson
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augus…
The Builder
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Frank L. Packard
In On the Iron at Big Cloud
Frank L. Packard worked as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. He brings this experience to the fictional Hill Division -- t…
Architecture, Sculpture, Use of Money, and Navigation
Read by Kalynda
William James Mcglothlin
In A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Thei…
This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been careful…
Darwin or Design
Read by Jason Rennie
Jason Rennie
Darwin or Design is a collection of interviews with 25 people on both sides of the intelligent design question. There are interviews on what…
Architecture for the Adoration of Beauty
Read by Winston Tharp
Wallace Stevens
In The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil…
MIT 11.949 City Visions: Past and Future, Spring 2004
MIT OpenCourseWare
This class is intended to introduce students to understandings of the city generated from both social science literature and the field of ur…
The Two Paths
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
John Ruskin
"The Two Paths" is a collection of five lectures delivered in 1858 and 1859 by John Ruskin on art and architecture. This is how th…
Architectural Masks
Read by Mike Crampton
Thomas Hardy
In Poems of the Past and the Present
Poems of the Past and the Present is the second collection of poems by Thomas Hardy published in 1901. It is divided into 5 sections, War Po…
MITSP.722S05
MIT OpenCourseWare
D-Lab: Development, Design and Dissemination is a design studio course in which students work on international development proj…
Foreword
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Frank L. Packard
In The Night Operator
A collection of ten railroad short stories: "And so these are the stories of the Hill Division and of the men who wrought upon it; the …
Some Mooted Questions In Reinforced Concrete Design
Read by Debra Lynn
Edward Godfrey
In Insomnia Collection Vol. 001
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…