History of Architecture and Design - Season 1 Episode 21 The other tradition
In television broadcast 21, Geoffrey Baker examines the persistence of academic classicism in British architecture of the 1920s and 1930s, exemplified in such buildings as Manchester City Library and Liverpool Cathedral. Despite growing support during the 1930s for the ideology of the Modern Movement, examples of the style were comparatively rare in Britain. Focusing on the new headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects, built during the 1930s, Geoffrey Baker shows how conservative traditions were modified by modernist tastes.
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Season 1
Episode
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
Episode 25