A series of eight films
8: Dreams and Awakenings Written and narrated by Sir Hugh Casson
The past 50 years have not been an age of belief, and this has been reflected in 20th-century architecture. Beginning in the suburban setting which evolved during the years between the wars, SIR HUGH CASSON goes on a journey which takes him from the pioneering houses and social experiments of the 1920s and 30s, through the ingenious but austere solutions demanded of architects immediately after the war, and via the brash monuments of the 1960s to what he regards as some of the finest and most humane architectural achievements of this decade.
Title music by SIR ARTHUR BLISS Producer DAVID HEYCOCK
Series producer JOHN DRUMMOND Book (same title), £7.00 from bookshops