History of Architecture and Design (1975) is a talk web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch History of Architecture and Design online in HD.
History of Architecture and Design — Storyline
Between 1975 and 1982, The Open University broadcast a series of televised courses on the genealogy of the modern movement: A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890–1939. Through twenty-four programs aired on BBC 2, the course team aimed to offer students and viewers a critical understanding of the intentions and views of the world that fuelled the modern movement, and to present some of the alternative traditions that flourished alongside it. The course nevertheless avoided the more dismissive positions of its contemporaries, while engaging political issues of its day such postwar urban planning and the housing question.
Cast & Crew
History of Architecture and Design — Series Details
| First Air Date | 1975-02-15 |
| Seasons | 1 |
| Episodes | 25 |
| Genre | Talk |
| Language | English |
| Status | Returning Series |
History of Architecture and Design — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: An architect at work : Fletcher's Well Ponteland (1975-02-15) — In the first broadcast, Dr. Geoffrey Baker uses the house he designed for himself, Fletcher’s Well near Newcastle upon Tyne, to explain some of the practical constraints an archite
- E2: Universal International Exhibition : Paris 1900 (1975-03-01) — Television broadcast 2 is intended to act as a sort of summary to the mainstream developments in architecture and design in Europe up to 1900. Tim Benton looks at some of the archi
- E3: Charles Rennie Mackintosh : Hill House (1975-03-08) — Sandra Millikin takes a close look at Hill House, perhaps the most perfect of Mackintosh’s houses, built in 1903 at Helensburgh, near Glasgow, for the publisher Walter Blackie. Bes
- E4: Industrial architecture : AEG and FAGUS factories (1975-03-15) — In television broadcast 4, Tim Benton compares the industrial buildings by Peter Behrens for the AEG (General Electrical Company of Germany) in Berlin with the almost exactly conte
- E5: Frank Lloyd Wright : the Robie House (1975-04-05) — In television broadcast 5, Sandra Millikin discusses the Robie House built in the Hyde Park district of Chicago in 1909. The residence represents a culmination of the house type wh
- E6: R. M. Schindler : The Lovell Beach House (1975-03-29) — In television broadcast 6, Sandra Millikin discusses the highly original contribution of Rudolf Schindler to the modern movement, which is frequently attributed to his Beach House
- E7: Erich Mendelsohn : the Einstein Tower (1975-04-19) — Television broadcast 2 looks at one of the very few completed Expressionist projects, Erich Mendelsohn’s Einstein Tower, near Potsdam, built between 1918 and 1922. It analyses Mend
- E8: Bauhaus at Weimar 1919-1925 (1975-05-03) — In television broadcast 8, Bauhaus objects from the period and a model of the Haus am Horn are examined in the studio. Tim Benton talks with George Adams, who was a student at the
- E9: Berlin Siedlungen (1975-04-19) — The most notable success of the New Objectivity in architecture was the solution of most of the problems posed by mass housing in Germany. In Television broadcast 9, Tim Benton tra
- E10: The Weissenhof Siedlung 1927 (1975-05-17) — The Weissenhof Siedlung, built in Stuttgart in 1927 for the housing exhibition sponsored by the Werkbund, proved to be a turning point in the self-identification of the Internation
- E11: International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, Paris 1925 (1975-05-31) — In television broadcast 11, Tim Benton provides a detailed look at the Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts of 1925. Benton offers a close reading of the buildings and
- E12: Adolf Loos (1975-06-07) — In television broadcast 12, Tim Benton looks at a number of buildings in Vienna designed by Adolf Loos, including the Goldman and Salatsch store, Kniže’s, the Scheu house and the M
- E13: Le Corbusier : the Villa Savoye (1975-06-14) — In television broadcast 13, Tim Benton visits Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, built at Poissy near Paris from 1929-1931, one of the most impressive monuments of the International Styl
- E14: English flats of the thirties (1975-07-12) — In television broadcast 14, Tim Benton looks at two very different developments to illustrate the differences and the common denominators in the design of flats in the 1930s. The h
- E15: English houses of the Thirties (1975-07-19) — In television broadcast 15, Geoffrey Baker looks at three important houses by the architectural partnership Connell, Ward and Lucas, the first firm to bring the International Style
- E16: Hans Scharoun (1975-07-26) — Hans Scharoun is best known for his expressionist designs in the years following the First World War, for his housing at Siemensstadt and Breslau in the late 1920s, and for his wor
- E17: English furniture : technique and design (1975-08-09) — Television broadcast 17 analyses the structures and the processes of production in wood and steel furniture around 1930-34, concentrating on the work of Heal and Son and Pel Limite
- E18: Wood or metal : English furniture of the thirties (1975-08-16) — 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.
- E19: The London Underground (1975-06-30) — In television broadcast 19, Geoffrey Baker visits three stations designed by Charles Holden for the London Underground’s Piccadilly Line (Cockfosters, Oakwood, and Southgate). At a
- E20: Moderne and modernistic (1975-09-13) — Looking back at British architecture in the 1930s, there were a significant number of buildings which looked modern to the lay man, although purist advocates of modern architecture
- E21: The other tradition (1975-09-20) — 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 Manchest
- E22: Mechanical services in the cinema — In television broadcast 21, Stephen Bayley takes the cinema as the paradigm of mechanical servicing in architecture. One particular cinema is singled out for detailed analysis: the
- E23: The semi-detached house : the suburban style (1975-10-11) — A case could be made for the argument that in the English suburbs, land developers and speculative builders—by wanting to build individualistic houses in vernacular styles away fro
- E24: The housing question (1975-10-18) — Housing has been the most distinctive interest of the Modern Movement in architecture; yet, despite the good intentions of the theorists, the results of this interest have not alwa
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does History of Architecture and Design have? 1 season(s) with 25 episodes.
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