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Architecture and Modernism

Dr Elain Harwood is a historian with Historic England and a Trustee of the Twentieth Century Society. A presentation organised by the Twentieth Century Society. source

Architecture: The origins of modernism. A c20 Presentation

Dr Alan Powers is joint editor of the journal Twentieth Century Architecture and of the monograph series Twentieth Century Architects. Chair of the Twentieth...

Le Corbusier At The AA – Part 2

Lecture date: 2008-11-28 Le Corbusier gave his only formal lecture in the UK on 18 December 1947, coinciding with the AA's centenary year. To commemorate...

Le Corbusier: The Architecture Of Reinvention – Part 2

Lecture date: 2001-03-10 Le Corbusier's apparent dominance of twentieth-century architecture resulted from his interaction with a broad range of media - painting, drawing, architecture, city...

Margaret Crawford: The Situationist in relation to consumer society (February 16, 1994)

John Kaliski introduces Margaret Crawford. Crawford proposes to discuss architecture’s relationship to consumer society and the avant garde’s relationship to architecture, illustrated by the Situationist...

Rosemarie Haag Bletter: Expressionist architecture (1986)

The video begins mid-lecture; audio and image are not crisp. Rosemarie Haag Bletter discusses the expressionist movement after World War I, focusing on Erich Mendelsohn...

Joseph Rykwert on the roots of modernism

The winner of the Royal Gold Medal 2014, the celebrated architect, critic, historian and writer Joseph Rykwert talks to the RIBA's Head of Awards...

The Appearance of Modern Architecture: Rowe contra Kaufmann

Lecture date: 2004-01-22 How can we specify the characteristics of modern architecture? This question has particular force in relation to the growing interest in organicism...

Jorge Francisco Liernur: Austral Group, a C.I.A.M. brigade in the far South (January 19, 2011)

Marcelo Spina introduces Jorge Francisco “Pancho” Liernur, Dean of the School of Architecture at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. Liernur outlines the...