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

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Fry, Maxwell, 1899-1987, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Industrial--Great Britain.

Architecture, Industrial.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (30 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 19, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.