300 Years of Housing

Synopsis: This film provides a brief introduction to the evolution of UK housing over the last three hundred years. It replaces an earlier film ‘A Brief History of Housing’, which has now been discontinued. Using a variety of archive footage, archive photographs, graphics and newly filmed video, it shows how housing styles and construction have changed since 1700, and explores some of the forces which brought about that change.
Demise of timber frame, 16th century stone buildings. Covers: Queen Anne housing and rise of classicism; Baroque housing, the rise of the Georgian terrace, Regency housing; Working class housing, back to backs, terraces; Improvements to Victorian housing, ‘villa’ in the suburbs; Early council housing, garden city estates; Speculative development in between the Wars, 1940s prefabs; Post war system building, high rise, 19670 and 1980s estates, moving back into the city.
Series: Building History and Conservation, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2002
Year of production: 2002
Notes: A DVD version should be available shortly.
Uses: Students of the built environment.
Subjects: Architecture; Civil Engineering & Building
Keywords: construction engineering; domestic architecture; history of architecture; houses

Name: University of the West of England, The Video Project
Contact: Duncan Marshall or Steve Brown
Email: Steve.Brown@uwe.ac.uk
Web: http://environment.uwe.ac.uk/video/index.htm External site opens in new window
Phone: 0117 328 3008
Address: Faculty of Environment & Technology
Coldharbour Lane
Frenchay Campus
Bristol
BS16 1QY
Notes: A continuing series of video productions on domestic building construction and another on building history and conservation. Sale on DVD or as Windows Media, Quicktime or Flash files.

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