Title & Author:

How Modern Architecture Came to England / [presented by] Maxwell Fry (Fry, Drew & Partners).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (30 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Maxwell Fry -- Werkbund Exhibition Building, Cologne, 1914: Walter Gropius & Albert Meyer -- (Left) Siemenstadt Housing, Berlin: Gropius. (Right) Housing, Berlin Zehlendorf: Bruno Taut -- Fagus Shoe-Last Factory, Alfeld-An-Der Leine, 1911: Gropius & Albert Meyer -- Highpoint Two (Foreground) & High Point One, London: Lubetkin & J. Tecton -- MARS Plan For London -- Frankfurt Kitchen: Ernst May Et Al -- Penguin Pool, London Zoo: Lubetkin & Tecton -- MARS Announcement 1934 -- Delegates At First CIAM Congress, 1928, La Sarraz -- Interior Of Boots Factory, Nottingham: Sir Owen Williams -- Sun House, London: Maxwell Fry -- Kensal House, London: Maxwell Fry -- BBC Studio, London: Wells Coates -- Ekco Radio: Wells Coates -- Sassoon House, London: Maxwell Fry -- Impington Village College, Herts: Gropius & Fry -- Impington Village College: Plan & Main Concourse -- MARS 1938 Exhibition Catalogue: Cover & Drawing -- Flats, Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart: Mies Van Der Rohe -- Open-Air School, Amsterdam: Bijvoet & Duiker -- CIAM Membership, 1929 -- Tugendhat House, 1930: Mies Van Der Rohe -- Tugendhat House: Living Room.

Summary:

The late Maxwell Fry began practising architecture in the early 1930s, a pioneer of the Modern Movement in Britain. Instrumental in engineering Walter Gropius' escape from Nazi Germany and bringing him to work in London, he designed with him a number of buildings before Gropius departed for America. Fry conveys in his talk something of the excitement and optimism he and his colleagues experienced in the 1930s, with new materials coming on the market, and new ideas filtering from the continent of Europe. He tells of the birth in 1928 of CIAM (Les Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne) and in 1934 of its British offspring the MARS Group (Modern Architectural ReSearch), and of their subsequent influence.

Subject:

Architecture, Industrial Great Britain.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture industrielle Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Industrial.
Architecture, Modern.
Great Britain.

Added entries:

Fry, Maxwell, 1899-1987, narrator.