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An account of the building of New Delhi over three decades. Discusses the commissioning of Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker and the difficulties they faced. Shows how architecture, as an instrument of the...
Geoffrey Baker uses the house he designed for himself near Newcastle upon Tyne, to explain some of the practical constraints and architect faces in the design of any building and to suggest the role played...
Looks at the most infuential buildings and architects of the 1980s, loosely grouped under the new architectural expressions such as ‘post-modern’, ‘high-tech’ and ‘rationalism’. Some of the...
Introduces the contemporary architecture of Japan, where architects and designers enjoy great public fame and prestige. Looks at world-renowned architects Arata Isozaki and Fumihiko Maki and at the new...
The most criticised aspect of the recent work of the architectural profession has been mass public housing. From the 1930s onwards architects have imposed grandiose theories about how people should live in...
Considers the relationship between design order and biological order in nature and man, and includes a method of ‘landscape appraisal’. Although prepared for the Indian subcontinent, examples are...
Twelve houses built in Britain between the 1950s and 1990s by architects including Richard Rogers, John Miller, John Winter, Michael Hopkins, and Tom Jestico, together with a little-known house in Germany by...
Using contemporary photographs, looks at a range of exhibits, showing the French emphasis of craftsmanship and exotic materials and considering in what ways the architecture of the French and international...
The Bauhaus school of design, craftsmanship and architecture, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919 and closed by the Nazis in 1933, revolutionised modern design. This film examines the personalities, teaching...
Looks at urban growth and the influence of designs by Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Mies Van der Rohe. Philip Johnson comments on American architecture and James Stirling describes post-war town planning...
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