History of Architecture and Design - Season 1 Episode 18 Wood or metal : English furniture of the thirties
Television broadcast 18 examines the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens, who Amyas Connell one said would ultimately be regarded as the greatest English architect of the twentieth century. When we think of the way British architecture was purged of its former traditional romantic expression by modernists such as Connell, this viewpoint may appear curious. In looking at Deanery Gardens, Sonning (1899), Dr. Geoffrey Baker here notes Lutyens’s empirical approach to planning and discerns a supremely English character in Lutyens’s work.
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An architect at work : Fletcher's Well Ponteland
Universal International Exhibition : Paris 1900
Charles Rennie Mackintosh : Hill House
Industrial architecture : AEG and FAGUS factories
Frank Lloyd Wright : the Robie House
R. M. Schindler : The Lovell Beach House
Erich Mendelsohn : the Einstein Tower
Bauhaus at Weimar 1919-1925
Berlin Siedlungen
The Weissenhof Siedlung 1927
International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris 1925
Adolf Loos
Le Corbusier : the Villa Savoye
English flats of the thirties
English houses of the Thirties
Hans Scharoun
English furniture : technique and design
Wood or metal : English furniture of the thirties
The London Underground
Moderne and modernistic
The other tradition
Mechanical services in the cinema
The semi-detached house : the suburban style
The housing question
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