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The Genius of Design
A new BBC series available on iPlayer, ‘The Genius of Design” records the history of industrial design from the late 19thC. Episode two in particular is interesting as it plots the distinction between...
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‘Blade Runner’ THE postmodern-dystopia
Talking of post-modern dystopia (not that we were) Ridley Scott’s seminal film ‘Blade Runner’ is available on BBC iPlayer until Sunday 14th November. Well worth a watch. An absolutely stunning film...
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Telly Savalas Looks at Portsmouth… in 1981… no really
To anyone born before 1985 Telly Savalas promotiong Portsmouth is just the most bizarre set of cirumstances imaginable. Yet it happened. No this is not a spoof. Still it is an interesting little time...
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The Secret Life of Buildings
Centraal Baheer office complex, Netherlands by Herman Hertzberger Hugely important, and can’t quite believe I missed it. (Thanks to ex-student Emma for poiting it out!) This series on Channel Four, The...
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A potted history of British Housing
This little BBC slideshow “What future for social housing” narrated by Ian Colquhoun gives one a potted history of the Britsih council house. It is in reference to Colquhoun’s 2008 book, which is quite...
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My V&A
Terry Farrell reflects on his personal favourites at the V&A in this video on the V&A’s fb page. I’d recommend everyone “Like” the V&A on fb. I am quite in love with the V&A at the...
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What future?
I have just discovered the Ove Arup sponsored mini-site on the Guardian webpage The Future of Urban LIving. One question/article is rather touching in its naïvety ‘how do we create a holistic urban...
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The 70s revisited
The BBC has just started a four-part series simply entitled ‘The 70s’, Mondays 9pm BBC2, the first provided a interesting reading by historian Dominic Sandbrook of the role of the 1970s in normalising...
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The end of the Red Road
Red Road Flats aerial view from http://www.treasuredplaces.org © Yet another Modernist housing estate is to be given the, as Charles Jencks would put it, “coup de grace by dynamite“. Red Road flats in...
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On the move : aviewfromtheinterior.net
This blog has been moved to aviewfromtheinterior. This is because I didn’t feel the title really reflected the blog anymore, it is more about what attracts me in general in design, architecture, social...
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