Television Programs of Interest (Sat 5th September to Fri 11th September 2009)

• THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ALBERT KAHN: MIDDLE EAST - THE BIRTH OF NATIONS, EP 7 OF 9
  In this episode Albert Khan's photographers record the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War 2, the creation of Lebanon and Israel and the birth of modern Turkey which led to a brutal war with Greece.
  Saturday 5 September 2009 3.00pm
  SBS ONE Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
  Duration: 60 mins
• TIM MARLOW MEETS MIKE LEIGH
  Art historian Marlow chats to the director about his passion for art and his favourite artists.
  Saturday 5 September 2009 4.00pm
  SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS)
  Duration: 30 mins
• MONUMENTAL VISION IN SRI LANKA
  Follows Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers as he creates a series of massive stone sculptures or geoglyphs in Sri Lanka.
  Sunday 6 September 2009 4.00pm
  ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
  Duration: 30 mins
• NOISE ON SCREEN
  Meet Darcy Prendergast, a clay animator who's inspired by the "weirder people of society"; spend time with heavy metal music-inspired illustrator, Aska Dolinska and go wide lens with Sam Shmith's epic landscape montages.
  Tuesday 8 September 2009 2.55am (early hours)
  ABC1 Rating: (M, Rpt)
  Duration: 30 mins
• THE NEW INVENTORS
  Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors showcases bright minds from across the country as they discover ingenious solutions to the problems of our lives. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: engineer James Bradfield Moody, science broadcaster Bernie Hobbs, and futurist and author Mark Pesce.
  Wednesday 9 September 2009 8.00pm
  ABC1
  Duration: 30 mins
• WORLD'S GREENEST HOMES: EP 8 OF 13
  Emmanuel Belliveau looks at a green home north of San Francisco; a Victorian cottage just minutes from Sydney Harbour; a cliffside Toronto home built entirely from recycled materials; and a unique home-work space in Chicago.
  Thursday 10 September 2009 6.00pm
  ABC1 Rating: (G)
  Duration: 55 mins
• EYE CANDY
  A portrait of the young and successful photographer David LaChapelle. Renowned for the wild imagination and erotic charge of his images, LaChapelle has become the hottest photographer of the moment. Features his shots of Justin Timberlake, Pamela Anderson and Elton John.
  Friday 11 September 2009 10.00pm
  SBS ONE Rating: (M, N, S, WS)
  Duration: 60 mins

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright: the buildings ; photographs by Alan Weintraub and text by Alan Hess with contributions by David G. De Long and Kathryn Smith is an new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for the City By Alan Hess
• Reshaping Urban Landscapes By David G. De Long
• Frank Lloyd Wright: Selected Plans By Kathryn Smith
• The Buildings -- Unity Temple 1904 -- Taliesin North 1911, 1914-25 -- A. D. German Warehouse 1915 -- S. C. Johnson & Son Administration Building 1936 -- Taliesin West 1937 -- Florida Southern College 1937-54 -- Kansas City Community Christian Church 1940 -- Unitarian Meeting House 1947 -- V. C. Morris Gift Shop 1948 -- Price Tower 1952 -- Anderton Court 1952 -- Beth Sholom Synagogue 1954 -- Kalita Humphreys Theatre 1955 -- Karl Kundert Medical Clinic 1955 -- Kenneth L. Meyers Medical Clinic 1956 -- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1956 -- R. W. Lindholm Service Station 1956 -- Marin County Civic Center 1957 -- Juvenile Cultural Study Center 1957 -- Pilgrim Congregational Church 1958 -- Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium 1959
• Buildings List
• Endnotes
• Bibliography
• Index

Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry: Toronto edited by Dennis Reid is a book that accompanied an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, February 18 – May 7, 2006.

Contents:

• Foreword by Matthew Teitelbaum
• Frank Gehry: The Early Years by Gillian MacKay
• A Century of Building the Art Gallery of Ontario by Dennis Reid
• Frank Gehry: Seeing the AGO Again (and Again) by Larry Wayne Richards
• In School with Frank Gehry by George Baird
• Model Employee by An Te Liu
• Object Lessons by Michael Mantzoris
• Refinements in Radical Form-making: The View from within Gehry's Office, 1999-2001 by Tom Bessai
• Contributors

Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture

Integrated design in contemporary architecture by Kiel Moe is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre.

Contents:

U.S. Federal Building San Francisco, California Morphosis -- Manitoba Hydro Downtown Office Project Winnipeg, Manitoba Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects -- The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park New York, New York Cook + Fox Architects -- Lovejoy Building Portland, Oregon Opsis Architecture -- 290 Mulberry New York, New York S H o P Architects -- The Clarence Kingston, Ontario Behnisch Architects and Next Phase Studios -- 557/559 Boston, Massachusetts Utile -- D D B C Model Residence One Tucson, Arizona D D B C : John Folan & Mary Hardin -- ecoMOD Charlottesville, Virginia University of Virginia School of Architecture/John Quale -- Chicago Residence Chicago, Illinois Wheeler Kearns Architects -- New Residence at the Swiss Embassy Washington, D.C. Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten -- Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado Adjaye Associates -- North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh, North Carolina Thomas Phifer and Partners -- The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, Ohio Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: S A N A A -- Crown Hall Renovation, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois Krueck & Sexton Architects -- Lavin-Bernick Centre for University Life Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana V J A A -- Seminar II Building at the Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington Mahlum Architects -- Milton Academy Science Building Milton, Massachusetts The Rose + Guggenheimer Studio -- Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 2 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona richärd + bauer -- University of Arizona College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Tucson, Arizona Jones Studio -- Sidwell Friends School, Middle School Renovation and Addition Washington D.C. KieranTimberlake Associates -- Technology Access Foundation White Center, Lakewood, Washington MillerHull Partnership -- Artists for Humanity EpiCenter Boston, Massachusetts Arrowstreet -- Pittsburgh Glass Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Davis Gardner Gannon Pope Architecture with Bruce Lindsey -- Gleneagles Community Center West Vancouver, British Columbia Patkau Architects -- Water + Life Museums Hemet, California Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build -- U.S. Border Patrol Station Murrieta, California Garrison Architects -- Fire Station 10 Seattle, Washington Weinstein AU Architects and Urban Designers

Between Earth and Heaven

Between earth and heaven: the architecture of John Lautner / edited by Nicholas Olsberg and texts by Jean-Louis Cohen, Nicholas Olsberg, and Frank Escher has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

"This publication accompanies the exhibition Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner, organized by Frank Escher and Nicholas Olsberg and presented at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, July 13-October 12 2008." -- title page verso