Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Air, Light, and Utopia: The Modern Movement in Architecture

Air, Light, and Utopia: The Modern Movement in Architecture

Combining interviews with leading architects, historians, and conservationists with location footage from all over Europe, this program examines the Modern Movement in architecture, from its emergence after World War I until World War II. The first half of the documentary explores the movement’s origins and ideology, spotlighting the Bauhaus in Germany, Le Corbusier in France, the Functionalists in Holland, and the Constructivists in Russia. The second half traces the movement’s growth and spread, emphasizing the influence of the social climate and political environment of the interwar years upon building design. (52 minutes)

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Item#: BVL10585
Copyright date: ©1994
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-1815-4
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-6386-8


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