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Jessica Rutherford, Keeper of Applied Arts at the Brighton Museum, discusses examples of French and British furniture of the 1920s in the Brighton collection, showing some of the ways in which French design...
Looks at three houses designed by one of the leading modernist partnerships in England in the 1930s: Connell, Ward and Lucas. The houses are ‘High and Over’ in Amersham, New Farm in Haslemere, and Moor...
Traces the genesis of the design for this key Expressionist building in Mendelsohn’s letters and sketches from the front during World War 1. He points to some of the daunting technical problems that had to...
Shows the evolution of Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘prairie house’ type, culminating in the Robie House built in Chicago in 1908. Demonstrates Wright’s masterly organisation of space and his concern for...
Hans Scharoun is best known for his Expressionist designs in the years following World War 1, for his housing at Siemensstadt and Breslau in the late 1920s, and for his work after World War 2. Less well...
Looks at some of the consequences for housing of the architectural changes introduced between 1890 and 1939.
Shows the similarities and differences between Behrens and Gropius by looking at their work in two German factories built just before World War 1. Also traces the continuity of classical architectural ideas...
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...
Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, built at Poissyi near Paris between 1929 and 1931, is one of the most impmressive monuments of the International Style. In a detailed analysis fo the building, it is related...
Shows three stations designed by Charles Holden for London Underground’s Piccadilly Line - Cockfosters, Oakwood and Southgate. They are seen as structures perfectliy fitted for their function and also as...
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