Architecture - Quo Vadis?
- Synopsis
- Looks at some of the most influential buildings of the 1980s including the Humana Building in Louisville by Michael Graves, the neighbouring American Life Building by Mies Van der Rohe, Arata Isozaki’s work on the Museum of Modern Art in Los Angeles, Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s Insurance Building in London and Norman Foster’s Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Looks at Paris where political will is shaping a project to celebrate the bicentenary of the French Revolution, which involves the building of three new museums, an opera house, a concert hall, a Franco-Arab institute and a modern communications institute.
- Series
- Architecture at the Crossroads, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.
- Year of production
- 1986
- Availability
- Sale
- Uses
- Architecture students at all levels.*
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Keywords
- architecture - American; French architecture
Credits
- Producer
- Peter Adam
- Writer
- Peter Adam
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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