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Back to the future: the remnants of Modernism's postwar ideals
Royal Academy of Arts
English - April 19, 2017 11:02 - 1 hour - 73.6 MB - ★★★ - 7 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Looking to the future was an essential part of Modernism; its postwar advocates believed that they were building a new and better world. In a second age of austerity, when we face housing shortages once more, do the utopian ideals of postwar Modernism offer any solution?
Speakers:
Peter Barber – architect, principal, Peter Barber Architects, and lecturer, University of Westminster
Farshid Moussavi RA – architect, founder, Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), and Professor in Practice of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Douglas Murphy – architect, architecture correspondent, Icon magazine, and author of 'Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture'
Adrian Forty (chair) – Emeritus Professor of the History of Architecture, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL