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Artists Architecture, Design, Urban Planning
  • Pier Luigi Nervi

    Pier Luigi Nervi and Joseph Nicoletti discuss architecture; part 2. Second interview: Caesar Zavattini discusses screenwriting and cinema

    1962

    End of interview with Pier Luigi Nervi and Joseph Nicoletti where they discuss innovation in architecture and learning from a master; second part is a separate interview with Cesare Zavattini about film inspirations and creating some of his most well known works.

  • Interview with Daniel Bluestone

    Nov. 13, 1991

    Interviewing architectural historian Daniel Bluestone.

  • Tom Hines, Bill Hasbrouck and Harry Weese discuss Daniel Burnham

    Nov. 11, 1974

    Discussing Chicago architect Daniel Burnham with Tom Hines, Bill Hasbrouck and Harry Weese.

  • John Zukowsky and Stanley Tigerman discuss the controversy surrounding their exhibit

    Jul. 8, 1993

    Curator John Zukowsky and architect Stanley Tigerman discuss their architecture exhibit and the controversy surrounding it.

  • Discussing the biography "Louis Sullivan: His Life and Work" with the author, architectural historian Robert Twombly

    Mar. 24, 1986
  • Discussing landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted with historian Charles Capen McLaughlin

    Jun. 27, 1977
  • Interviewing architect John Vinci

    Feb. 28, 1996
  • Discussing the Chicago Historical Society's exhibition "Louis Sullivan: The Function of Ornament," with architect John Vinci, Art and Architecture historian David Van Zanten and curator Wim de Wit

    Aug. 27, 1986
  • Interviewing Pier Luigi Nervi ; part 2

    1964
  • Race relations

    Studs Terkel discusses race relations and economic disparity with four Chicago area women ; part 1

    Jan. 27, 1965

    Studs discusses race relations and economic disparity with four Chicago area women in a program entitled "Each of us can act". This recording was the last of a 6-part series, "Rearing the Child of Good Will", broadcast under the auspices of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

  • Race relations

    Studs Terkel discusses race relations and economic disparity with four Chicago area women ; part 2

    Jan. 27, 1965

    Studs discusses race relations and economic disparity with four Chicago area women in a program entitled "Each of us can act". This recording was the last of a 6-part series, "Rearing the Child of Good Will", broadcast under the auspices of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.

  • Tribute to Richard Nickel

    Jul. 14, 1977

    Tribute to architectural photographer Richard Nickel, who passed away in 1972, with architectural historian and restoration expert John Vinci and Bill Newman.

  • Auditorium Theater

    Studs Terkel discusses the Auditorium Theater with friends ; part 2

    Jun. 1, 1967

    Studs Terkel sits down with three guests who convey their memories of the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. Mary Garden, John Glickman and architect Harry Weese all agree that the theater's acoustics were extraordinary and there wasn't a bad seat in the house. Weese helped Chicago rediscover the Auditorium.

  • Auditorium Theater

    Discussing the Auditorium Theater with friends ; part 1

    Jun. 1, 1967

    Discussing the Auditorium Theater with friends.

  • Paul Robeson

    Gathering of friends discussing Paul Robeson

    May. 8, 1970

    Recorded live on Chicago's South Side. Robeson is ill at the time of recording. Speakers: Earl Dickerson, Etta Moten Barnett, Judge Sidney Jones, J. Mayo "Ink" Williams, Joan Brown (possibly Abena Joan Brown), Charles Hamilton, Margaret Burroughs, [John Gray's sister], [Stevens?]

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