Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture DVD, 2008

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In a new BBC series that celebrates architecture as a creative force and a portrait of humanity through building, architectural historian and writer Dan Cruickshank explores the world’s greatest cities, buildings and monuments. He travels the world seeking out its most stunning constructions, with locations ranging from Russian palaces to Mayan pyramids; from igloos in Greenland to Bavarian castles and from the largest Buddha in the ancient world, situated in China, to the Sun Temple in Konarak in India, a Hindu place of worship whose sexually explicit statues so appalled the British in the 19th century that it was almost demolished. Other programmes take him to the lavish baroque ornament of the Catherine Palace in St Petersburg and the Albi Cathedral in southern France. Each programme has a theme, such as beauty, pleasure or paradise. Over eight weeks, Cruickshank explores the cities and buildings that illustrate each theme, travelling to the locations, learning about the countries and meeting the people who live in, and with, the buildings that are his destination.

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture

Film Information

Director - Various (TV)

Produced - 2008

Main Language - English

Countries & Regions - British Film

Cast - Dan Cruickshank

DVD Details

Certificate:	E	Publisher:	BBC	Region:	2
Length:	400 mins	Aspect:	1:1.78 (16:9) widescreen	Cat No:	BBCDVD2573
Format:	DVD Colour	Subtitles:	Subtitles for hard of hearing (English)

DVD Extras

3 discs.

Film Description

The complete BBC series in which architectural historian and writer Dan Cruickshank traverses the globe, celebrating different types of architecture and showing how our buildings reveal our aspirations, our ingenuity and our beliefs. In each programme, buildings from all over the world are juxtaposed, revealing unexpected connections between very different types of architecture. From the Kizhi Cathedral in remote northwest Russia to the convent of St Catherine in Sinai, Egypt, and from Mayan pyramids to igloos in Greenland, the series is a mammoth journey that takes in some monumental structures, whilst gradually revealing the history of world architecture.