Ten films examining the main themes running through the world of contemporary architecture (1986)
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Air Date: 1986-01-12
First transmitted in 1986, a look at how some young architects are reacting against modernist sterility with an exube...
Air Date: 1986-01-19
We are living in an age of experiment. The 80s have seen a rich crop of radical and controversial ideas about the for...
Air Date: 1986-01-26
The newly-acquired oil wealth has brought an unprecedented boom to the Middle East and, as a consequence, a massive p...
Air Date: 1986-02-02
Modern architecture has revived the concept of the open 'galleria' and the 'atrium'. All over the world the tradition...
Air Date: 1986-02-09
Next year the once devastated inner-city of Berlin sees the most exciting and historic event in present-day city plan...
Air Date: 1986-02-16
In Japan architects and designers enjoy a public fame and prestige far greater than any painter or sculptor. Three qu...
Air Date: 1986-02-23
Stop the Bulldozer asks if conservation at all costs is inhibiting contemporary architecture. Conservationists have b...
Air Date: 1986-03-02
Houses Fit for People looks at housing and where the modern movement went wrong with their high-rises and modern conc...
Air Date: 1986-03-09
'Texas is a marvellous place to build, it's the last American state, a great country, a separate country. They have t...
Air Date: 1986-03-16
This has been a series about change - in the attitudes of contemporary architects, in public awareness, in the ways t...