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
Distribution Formats
- Type
- VHS
- Format
- PAL
- Price
- £65.00
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 30 minutes
- Year
- 2005
Sponsor
Distributor
- Name
University of the West of England, The Video Project
- Contact
- Duncan Marshall or Steve Brown
- 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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