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AND THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT LEGACY: Architecture Codex looks at the most famous building of the world's most famous architect and how its appeal might be because it relates to basic human impulses regarding materials and dynamic forces.

THE HADID BRAND: Architecture Codex looks at Hadid's style and how it has to be adapted to fit into the New York City Real Estate market. Is it still a Hadid building?

GROOVY ARCHITECTURE: Architecture Codex looks at Brutalism in the 1960s and its attempt to rethink how buildings are made and what they look like by examining the famous housing project that was part of the groovy Montreal Expos 67.

LOOKING FORWARD BY LOOKING BACKWARD: Architecture Codex looks that the first great American Building of the 20th century and finds out why it looks like an ancient Roman Bath.

A TALE OF TWO WHITNEYS: Architecture Codex looks at two incarnations of a building for the Whitney Museum of Art. One brutalist building built in the 1966 by Marcel Breuer and one deconstructivist building built in 2015 by Renzo Piano.

MODERN TRADITION: Architecture Codex looks at a modern Cathedral in Los Angeles that is secretly traditional.

SANDS OF TIME: Architecture Codex looks at the largest religious site in the world that was in active service for over 2,000 years.

SURF AND TURF: Architecture Codex examines a new oddly shaped residential project in New York City.

HAPPY MOTORING: Architecture Codex looks at the history of the road side toilet in America and how Rest Stops, and Travel Plazas help make the USA more accessible to families.

A REQUIEM: Architecture Codex looks at the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in NY and suggests it was a design and structural success.

BY ANY OTHER NAME: Architecture Codex looks a both the old and the new Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson and how bridge building remains the most honest form of building and recent changes in bridge building technology.

ASHES TO ASHES: Architecture Codex explores the damage done to the Cathedral at Notre Dame de Paris and considers the dangers and options for reconstruction.

RATIONAL CHUTZPAH: Architecture Codex looks at the first in the next wave of super slender skyscrapers in New York City.

AWE, DISDAIN, AND JEALOUSY: Architecture Codex examines the Frank Gehry architecture style by looking at some of his most significant buildings.

MUSSOLINI ON THE HUDSON: Architecture Codex looks at the New State Capitol complex in Albany and how it compares with Italian Fascist Architecture.

BREAKING THE 4TH WALL: Architecture Codex examines the Minneapolis avant-garde theater building and how the building fits the style of theatrical productions.

POKING THE OCULUS: Architecture Codex examines the Oculus and how Starchitects are different from most architects who ever lived.

VILLA JELLO: Architecture Codex compares the modern corporate headquarters with Palladian Villas.

IS THE POPE CATHOLIC? : Architecture Codex looks at Meier's modern church, La Chiesa di Dio Padre Misericordioso, in Rome, the home of traditional church architecture.

OF MIES AND MENS WAREHOUSE: Architecture Codex looks at Mies' buildings at IIT and compares them the big box retail stores

SAFE HAVEN FOR OLIGARCHS AND TOURISTS: In this video Architecture Codex looks at development at Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan and examines what drives the NYC Real Estate Market and what makes a real NY neighborhood.

YOU DESERVE A BREAK TODAY: In this video Architecture Codex looks at the epitome of fast food design, the original McDonald's prototype by Stanley Clark Meston and how the McDonalds Brothers and Ray Kroc changed how America eats.

THE POWER AND THE GLORY: In this video Architecture Codex looks at Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, describing the impact it has had on people visiting it and compares the progress made on the building since 1980.

WHAT IS THIS CHANNEL ABOUT? Michael Molinelli, AIA NCARB LEED ap briefly outlines the goals and approach of this video series about architecture as seen by a practicing architect, full of insight, information and pompous opinions with a touch of humor.

THE EERO PORT: In this video Architecture Codex looks at Eero Saarinen's masterpiece TWA Terminal at JKF airport, both the original and the restoration and how airline travel has changed since it was built.