Architecture and design : a third level arts course : English flats of the thirties : Quarry Hill, Leeds : Highpoint 1, Highgate / presented by Tim Benton.

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Main entry:

Benton, Tim, 1945- instructor, screenwriter, speaker.

Title & Author:

Architecture and design : a third level arts course : English flats of the thirties : Quarry Hill, Leeds : Highpoint 1, Highgate / presented by Tim Benton.

Publication:

[Milton Keynes] : Open University ; [London] : BBC TV, [1975]

Description:

1 streaming video file (24 min., 34 sec.) : sound, colour

Notes:
Originally aired on BBC2 as an episode of Architecture & design, in July 12, 1975.
Lecture.
Produced by BBC/Open University; production, Edward Hayward; written by Tim Benton.
Speaker: Tim Benton.
In English.

Summary:

In television broadcast 14, Tim Benton looks at two very different developments to illustrate the differences and the common denominators in the design of flats in the 1930s. The huge municipal Quarry Hill estate in Leeds, designed by R.A.H. Livett, is compared with Highpoint I, an apartment block for upper-income tenants, in Highgate, London, designed by Berthold Lubetkin.

Subject:

Apartment houses England 20th century.
Apartments England 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic England History 20th century.
Appartements Angleterre 20e siècle.
Apartment houses.
Apartments.
Architecture, Domestic.
England.

Form/genre:

Lectures.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Streaming video.
History.

Added entries:

Hayward, Edward television producer.
Open University, producer.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, producer, broadcaster.
Centre canadien d'architecture, host institution.
Centre canadien d'architecture. CCAchannel.

English flats of the thirties : Quarry Hill, Leeds : Highpoint 1, Highgate
A305/14 : English flats of the thirties

Holdings:

Location: Library internet resource 304295
Call No.: 304295
Status: Available

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