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Unbuilding a Building
Read by Steve Mattern
Winthrop Packard
In Short Story Collection Vol. 042
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 042: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
The Elements
Read by Kyle Van DeGlast
A. Anderson and A. T. Anderson
In How to Do Chemical Tricks
While a bit outdated in many of the more complex descriptions of several of the phenomena described, this book is nonetheless still fun and …
Second Element: the Idea (Phantasm) Part 1
Read by mossywoodlandweaver
James McCosh and James Mccosh
In The Emotions
I am not satisfied with the account which has been given of the feelings and emotions in our books of mental science, and thence transferred…
Thoughts on Art and Life
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Leonardo da Vinci
This is a compilation of the thoughts on art, science and life of Leonardo da Vinci, translated by Maurice Baring and edited by Lewis Einst…
Sir Christopher Wren: Scientist, Scholar and Architect
Read by David Wales
Lawrence Weaver
This 1923 monograph on the life and work of Sir Christopher Wren was written by Lawrence Weaver, an English architectural writer and editor.…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 9
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Giorgio Vasari
Volume 9 of the lives of some eminent painters, sculptors and architects in history. - Summary by Michele Eaton
On Building a Theatre
Read by James R. Hedrick
Irving Pichel
As people live in a house, Or work, day after day, in a store or factory or public building, they become used to inconveniences, bad arrange…
The Decoration of Houses
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Edith Wharton
The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In …
MIT 24.213 Philosophy of Film, Fall 2004
MIT OpenCourseWare
Instructor: Prof. Irving Singer This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which i…
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art lectures
Read by James Grant
James Grant
University of Oxford Podcasts
PREFACE
Read by Shashank Jakhmola
Rabindranath Tagore
In Stories from Tagore
This is a wonderful collection of ten stories written by Rabindranath Tagore, often recalled as 'The Bard of Bengal'. Tagore is known for hi…
Architecture
Read by Phil Benson
Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes
In Venice
Following his assignment to South Africa as Black and White Magazine's war artist, Mortimer Menpes travelled extensively, becoming the artis…
A Room Without a View
Read by Brize C
William Lyon Phelps
In Essays on Things
William Lyon Phelps was founder of the Pundits, a secret society at Yale, noted for its collection of the wittiest and most erudite students…
MIT 21L.448J Darwin and Design, Fall 2010
MIT OpenCourseWare
This video course covers Darwin's model for understanding how natural objects and systems can help understand design. It looks at pre- and p…
V. Relations of Different Activities
Read by Leon Harvey
William Matthew Flinders Petrie
In The Revolutions of Civilization
British archaeologist & Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, discusses the history of civilization in Egypt, Greece, Rome & medieval Europ…
Italian Villas and Their Gardens
Read by Claudia Caldi
Edith Wharton
In Coffee Break Collection 034 - Vacations
This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…
'2BR02B' by Kurt Vonnegut
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
In Fevers and Physicians in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. II)
I: ‘Pandemic’ by Jesse F. BoneA deadly pandemic consumes the world (blah blah blah - you know the rest). If only THAT was the cure to the re…