How Buildings Shape Human Life

Architecture shelters the body, protects the family, and forms a neighborhood. Architect Feng Guochuan leaves grand palaces and monuments aside to tell the history of ordinary places where people have lived.

Thirty lively stories travel from caves and timber nests to courtyard houses, colonial homes, modernist villas, and experimental apartments. Along the way, listeners learn to see the built world—and themselves—with an architect's eye. Audio is in Chinese.