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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture

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Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates architecture as a creative force as he explores the world's greatest cities, buildings and monuments

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture - Beauty

Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank explores how humanity has created beauty through architecture, beginning in Greenland where he attempts to build an igloo.

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture - Connections

Historian Dan Cruickshank explores how humanity has created beauty through architecture. Dan examines how architecture enables people to live together across the world.

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture - Death

Dan Cruickshank travels the globe to explore how different cultures have created architecture inspired by our mortality. He visits a Hindu town where people go to die.

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture - Disaster

Dan Cruickshank explores buildings shaped and threatened by disaster. He visits the Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan and sees how San Francisco is preparing for an earthquake.

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture - Dreams

Historian Dan Cruickshank explores how humanity has created beauty through architecture. Dan visits a penitentiary in Philadelphia, and skyscrapers made entirely from mud.

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture - Paradise

Historian and writer Dan Cruickshank celebrates the creative force of architecture. Dan looks at buildings that evoke the image of heaven across religions and cultures.

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture - Pleasure

Historian Dan Cruickshank explores how humanity has created beauty through architecture. Dan visits buildings created for pleasure.

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Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture - Power

Dan Cruickshank explores buildings as gigantic statements of power when he visits palaces in Romania, the Middle East, the American South, Turkey and Kazakhstan.

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