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Learn the essential tools and techniques of ArchiCAD, the award-winning architectural software, and learn how they map to a real-world BIM workflow.
ArchiCAD is an award-winning tool used by architects worldwide. It's powerful and packed full of the features needed to design great building projects. Ready to get started? ArchiCAD Essential Training offers practical training for new ArchiCAD users. We've mapped the basic and advanced tools with actual...
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The abstract geometric paintings of Helen Hardin beautifully illustrate the artist's struggle to depict aspects of her native heritage yet depart from the Santa Fe/Dorothy Dunn model of her predecessors-including her mother, the acclaimed Pablita Velarde. This program takes a close look at the work of a gifted Santa Clara painter and printmaker who acted almost as if she knew that her time to make a mark in the art world would be short. Her multi-layered...
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Over the course of a long and productive life, Moshe Feldenkrais developed groundbreaking body-movement techniques that continue to help people today-from those who want to reduce arthritis pain to patients struggling with severe car-crash injuries. Still widely practiced over 20 years after its founder's death, the Feldenkrais method offers a fascinating conceptual framework that will draw viewers into this film. Nevertheless, it is only one of several...
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China's first industrial revolution occurred more than two millennia before Europe's. Today, there is a new wave of industrialization in China as the awakened dragon prepares to test its wings. This program draws on historical evidence and expert commentary to vividly illustrate China's early mastery of crucial industrial processes and to explain how they contributed to the wealth and progress of Chinese civilization. Pivotal events that hampered...
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A painter of large, arresting canvases, Brian Clarke has also designed some of the most exciting stained glass to appear on the contemporary art scene. This visually striking documentary follows Clarke on a journey to Lancashire, in Great Britain, where he grew up as a prodigy in a working-class family. The film charts his artistic development during the heyday of punk and his eventual success as a stained glass artist working with some of the most...
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This episode of The Green Interview features Franke James, a rabble-rousing artist, author, and activist who uses her art-a signature style of lively drawings mixed with photos and hand drawn text-and her written work to campaign for social and environmental justice. She has over 20 years' experience as a creative designer and marketing professional. Most recently, she made headlines when she discovered that the Canadian government under Stephen Harper...
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This program focuses on Berlin, where Hannah Hoch, George Grosz, and John Heartfield politicized the anarchist Dada movement, uniting it with the extreme Left. Nearby, the newly formed Bauhaus School, led by founder Walter Gropius and other influential architects and artists, encouraged students to reject history and embrace new techniques, materials, and styles. The film also features Gerhard Richter, Germany's most venerated living artist, and studies...
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A brilliant program, this thoughtful and analytical quartet of videos probes the moral questions that plague journalists: What is the truth and whose truth is it? Is there such a thing as true objectivity? What does it mean when the same picture can be used to illustrate opposite points of view? What distortions are introduced by the journalist's own ego-to be first, best, most artistic, most insightful? These programs show how reporters have to contend...
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Textile art and artists play an active role in the culture of the Zapotec communities in Oaxaca, Mexico. Following the work and daily lives of weavers from six different villages in the region, this documentary traces the evolution of their weaving tradition from its early development millennia ago to the present day. The story also looks at the integration of ancient techniques with new technologies and explores how Zapotec artisans are now drawing...