Sure. I. Made good evening. Thank you for joining us for tonights program. We are so thrilled to have you here with us tonight. My name is Stephanie Barnett and im the associate director of Public Programs and Community Outreach here at the Greenwich Historical society. And we are so thrilled to have you with us and pleased to present tonights program on gilded age architecture, which is going to precede the highly anticipated series coming to your screen in october, which im sure you may already know. Before we dive into tonights program, ill just review a few housekeeping details. First of all, we like to welcome American History television from cspan, who will be recording tonights program, which is very exciting and we are also are going to finish with the wine and cheese reception back down in the lobby where you came in. So that will be around 7 00. Youll also have the opportunity to buy mr. Dodds book and have it signed by him. While youre enjoying your beverages. And finally, a
inside museums, places i ve loved ever since i was a boy. and during my working life, i ve witnessed something astonishing how radically they ve changed. the days of museums as grand, intimidating treasuries for dusty objects, they re long gone. they re becoming much more dynamic and inclusive places, less solemn, less elitist, and less west centric, too. museums, i believe, are really having a moment, and that s what i want to explore. what i am looking for is something weird, something different. i feel you ve succeeded, inci. she s one of the greatest female artists of the 20th century. so what happened 7 because she kind of, like, drops off the map. she was a woman, and she was a muslim. it s an exciting time to be interested in museums and visual art, because a great shake up of art history is underway, which is why i ve come to istanbul, that mesmerising megalopolis that straddles two continents, europe and asia. and the interplay between western and turkish art is a fu
because she kind of, like, drops off the map. she was a woman, and she was a muslim. it s an exciting time to be interested in museums and visual art, because a great shake up of art history is underway, which is why i ve come to istanbul, that mesmerising megalopolis that straddles two continents, europe and asia. and the interplay between western and turkish art is a fundamental part of the extraordinary collection of this place, istanbul modern. i m in turkey s biggest city, istanbul. in many ways, the story of istanbul is the story of the bosphorus strait, the waterway that divides the city and has made it a key meeting place for centuries. the brand new home of istanbul modern acknowledges this with an impressive open plan ground floor that connects the city with the water. and i ve been given special access to the museum as the team make final preparations ahead of its opening. any new museum needs a gifted architect to create it. and in the italian renzo piano, istanbu
Sure. I. Made good evening. Thank you for joining us for tonights program. We are so thrilled to have you here with us tonight. My name is Stephanie Barnett and im the associate director of Public Programs and Community Outreach here at the Greenwich Historical society. And we are so thrilled to have you with us and pleased to present tonights program on gilded age architecture, which is going to precede the highly anticipated series coming to your screen in october, which im sure you may already know. Before we dive into tonights program, ill just review a few housekeeping details. First of all, we like to welcome American History television from cspan, who will be recording tonights program, which is very exciting and we are also are going to finish with the wine and cheese reception back down in the lobby where you came in. So that will be around 7 00. Youll also have the opportunity to buy mr. Dodds book and have it signed by him. While youre enjoying your beverages. And finally, a
Now, this building is tall. Its now the tallest, now, in the european union. Why . What whats the statement by building it so tall . I dont really remember. The reason why is the tallest, i dont remember. I dont really care. It was it was actually taller, in the beginning. It was 400 metre. But then they said that you cannot because it would interfere with the flight of aeroplanes. So we stopped. The building is now 310 metres. We still desired to go up to 400. So this idea was almost not finished. Some people believe it is not finished. But it is simply desiring to go higher, but not going higher. This idea that a building does not finish. It stands like that. The last piece of glass stays like there. If you need them to go, they can go up. This is part of the game. We did not try to make the tallest building in europe. It did happen. Itjust happened by chance . It happened by chance. Because if you want to put all of those functions, because this building has at least six or seven di