This week David and Marina share their thoughts on Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles and Pompidou Center, the relationship between beauty and structure, and architecture books that are important to them.

Francoise Choay's Urbanism, Utopias, and Realities
Gombrich's The Story of Art
Francis Ching
Gaston Bachelard's Poetry of Space
Gaston Bachelard's Highrise
Michael Sorkin's 20 minutes in Manhattan
Kevin Lynch's Image of the City
Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language
Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture,
Adrian Forty's Words and Buildings
Jane Jacobs' Death and Life of Great American Cities
Nick Crosley's Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory
Henri Lefebvre's Everyday Life
Homi K. Bhabha

This episode is supported by Brizo • Monograph • Miele • Graphisoft

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#305 - After Hours: Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures & Architecture Books