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Unit eight. Page 76. Watch the lecture. Part B
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listen for main ideas. Okay. Today we're going to
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talk about Frank Gehry, one of my favorite
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architects. If you see in any of the buildings
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he's designed, like the dancing House in Prague,
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you'll know why. It's a wonderful, colorful
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building near the river. Many tourists go to see
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it. But today we'll consider Frank Gehry's work
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not as tourists, but as architects. It's
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understood that architecture is both the science
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and the art of designing buildings. We use science
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to make sure that the building is strong, and we
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use art because we want the building to be
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beautiful. In other words, we think about the
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aesthetics or artistic value of the building. Now
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here I want to mention Vitruvius, the Roman
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architect who lived in the first century BCE. He
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said that a building must have three fundamental
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characteristics. One meet its intended use. To be
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sound, which means strong and three beautiful.