This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
15 November 2017 to 1 April 2018
The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture
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This exhibition will explore the third-year undergraduate arts course, “A305: History of Architecture and Design, 1890–1939,” offered by the Open University via television and radio broadcasts that aired from 1975 to 1982. Beyond its many innovations in new forms of higher education, the Open University—founded in 1969 with headquarters in Milton Keynes, UK—was a key(...)
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25 January 2018
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3 March 2018
Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
16 November 2017
Counter-tour: Tim Benton’s Cut
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Soon after the opening of The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, Tim Benton presents another reading of the new exhibition through a counter-tour. Rather than a tour through the galleries that gives voice to the curator’s ideas, counter-tours propose critical, subversive, corrective, or alternative versions of a given project through encounters(...)
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A305 data chart.
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1 broadsheet ; 59 x 42 cm
Milton Keynes : Open University Press, [1975]
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Milton Keynes : Open University Press, [1975]
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1 sheet : illustrations, plans ; 63 x 60 cm
[Milton Keynes] : Open University Press, [1975]
A305 History of architecture and design, 1870-1939 : RSV radio programme 17 : RSV radio programme 23.
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1 sheet : illustrations, plans ; 63 x 60 cm
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[Milton Keynes] : Open University Press, [1975]
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1 online resource (1 video file (24 min., 40 sec.)) : sound, black and white
[Milton Keynes] : Open University ; [London] : BBC TV, [1975], ©1974
Open University, Architecture & design. A305/20, Moderne and modernistic / presented by Geoffrey Baker ; with the voice of Alexander John.
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1 online resource (1 video file (24 min., 40 sec.)) : sound, black and white
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[Milton Keynes] : Open University ; [London] : BBC TV, [1975], ©1974
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1 online resource (1 video file (50 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2018]
Live annotation : Jonathan Bignell interrupts Open University course A305, episode 1, "An architect at work".
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1 online resource (1 video file (50 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color
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[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2018]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 17 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color
[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2018]
Live annotation : Charlotte Lydia Riley interrupts Open University course A305, episode 23, "The semi detached house".
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 17 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color
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[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2018]