Title & Author:

Air, light, and utopia / narration writer, James Allen ; director Boaz Berr ; producers, Noa Karavan Cohen, Boaz Berr.

Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, ©2000.

Description:

1 videocassette (53 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 1/2 in.

Notes:
Additional copyright date on title frames: Artel Productions, 1994.
Modern architecture between two world wars: utopian dreams -- Modern architecture between two world wars: air & light for all.
Cameraman, Graham Day ; online editor, Charlie Phillips ; narrator, Jane Copland ; music, Gavin Greenaway.
Narration writer, James Allen.
VHS.
Chiefly in English. Brief sequences in German and Italian with English subtitles.

Summary:

Examines the Modern Movement in architecture, from its emergence after World War I until World War II. Combines interviews with leading architects, historians, and conservationists with location footage from all over Europe. The first half 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.

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture) Europe.
Architecture and society History.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Europe.
Architecture et société Histoire.
Architecture and society
Modern movement (Architecture)
Europe

Form/genre:

Documentaries and Factual Films
VHS (TM)
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Videocassettes.
Videotapes.
documentary film.
Documentary films
History
Documentaires.

Added entries:

Allen, James.
Berr, Boaz.
Cohen, Noa Karavan.
Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Title on cassette label: Air, light, and utopia, the Modern Movement in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main av 246697
Call No.: NA680 .A3 2000
Status: Available