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Traces the development of the ‘Siedlungen’ (housing estates) built in Berlin during the 1920s through the work of Taut, Scharoun, Gropius, Hring and Bartning. Shows that, despite the large scale of...
Looks at Hill House, built in 1903 at Helensburgh near Glasgow for the publisher Walter Blackie. Indicates how the design responded to the needs of the particular client and suggests ways in which the design...
Looks at Deanery Gardens, Sonning (1899) and notes Lutyens’ empirical approach to planning and the supremely English character of his work.
Looks at two very different developments to illustrate the differences and the common factors in the design of flats in the 1930s. TGhe huge municipal Quarry Hill estate in Leeds, designed by R A H Livett,...
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.
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