Tuesday 28 June 2011

Utopia London

I cannot vouch for this as I have not seen it yet, but Utopia London looks like a must for London's Modernist Architecture lovers.
"......a documentary film by young director Tom Cordell, explores London's recent architectural history through the eyes of those who helped create it and those whose lives were shaped by it. Focusing on the London Cordell knew as a child, the film shows how architects such as Berthold Lubetkin, Neave Brown, Kate Macintosh and John Bancroft were working together in a spirit of optimism to revolutionise life in the city in the wake of the destruction wrought by World War Two war and the poor living conditions inherited from the Industrial Revolution.
The story goes on to explore how the meaning of these transformative buildings has been radically manipulated over subsequent decades, and, in comparing the attitudes of architects and planners then and now, poses the question; where do we go from here?"

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