A305/15: English Houses of the Thirties

In the context of the exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, the CCA presents twenty-four broadcasts from the course A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939, by The Open University. To learn more about the project, visit www.cca.qc.ca/A305.
In television broadcast 15, Geoffrey Baker looks at three important houses by the architectural partnership Connell, Ward and Lucas, the first firm to bring the International Style to England. The first house, High and Over, at Amersham, was designed by Amyas
Connell; the other house by Connell which is discussed in this programme is New Farm, near Haslemere. The last house, Temple Gardens, Moor Park, was designed and built by Basil Ward in 1937.
Written by Geoffrey Baker and Amyas Connell, directed by Edward Hayward, produced the BBC/Open University, aired 19 July 1975 on BBC2.

[@bjd798]

I enjoyed listening to this video of Amyas Connell very much! Very interesting Architectural history program. He is my grandfather on my mother's side ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyas_Connell ). Amyas Douglas Connell (old man with the beard in the video above). Amyas had four children: James (88 yrs), Graham (died ~2014), Diana (77 yrs) and Kate (Katherine) (~57 yrs). Best wishes to you all, Brendan Darrer (49 yrs).

[@sharidavenport5283]

That's wonderful for you to find this video narrated partially by your grandfather, Brendan! 😊 I'm pleased for you, as he had a very pleasant voice🗣 to listen to! And a Rhoades Scholar🎖to boot! I also enjoy a rather narrow era of architectural history very much, including both later 19th and early 20th century American and British. (It seems that Great Britain did much better financially in the long run during the Great Depression than did the States. But everyone tried their best to come out as well as possible.) 👏👏 😊

[@rskb1957]

Interesting narrative, falling as it does before the Thatcherite revolution of the 80s and the fragmenting of a sense of cultural cohesiveness. There is something more quintessentially English than any narrative that could be given by any English nationalist of the ilk of Nigel Farage.

[@paddyskate]

Design in Britain went downhill when the working classes stopped going to university/art schools

[@doktoruzo]

@@paddyskate.. Did the working classes go to university in the 50's, 60's or 70's? Not many to my knowledge.

[@chriskappert1365]

I think the Internationel Stile works pperfectly for office buildings , because of its stark and clean design , no distraction just concentrate on the work . For a home to live in , I find it to cold , to much hard surfaces , to masculine .