Deyan Sudjic
Building Sights (1988)
Series 1
Personal reflections on the best of 20th Century architecture in Britain.
Released Nov. 1, 1988
Episode 10 min
None+
Genres: Documentary
Keywords: tmdb.architecture
Production Companies: BBC Elstree
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Water Authority Pumping Station
Architect Piers Gough looks at the brand new Water Authority Pumping Station on London's Isle of Dogs, designed by John Outram , that's good enough to eat in ...
Nov. 1, 1988, midnight
S1E2 - Marsh Court
Writer Jonathan Meades revisits Marsh Court, a private house-turned-prep-school designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1904 and with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll. Meades finds the place an ever-changing maze.
Nov. 7, 1988, midnight
S1E3 - Schlumberger Building
Eva Jiricna -- the architect responsible for designing interiors for Harrods, Joseph and parts of the Lloyds building -- visits Schlumberger Cambridge Research (architect, Michael Hopkins 1984) and is enchanted by its modernity.
Nov. 8, 1988, midnight
S1E4 - Byker Wall
Writer Beatrix Campbell visits the successful Byker housing estate in Newcastle, designed by Ralph Erskine in the early 1970s. It's an epic development - both monumental and modest, and Beatrix Campbell describes why it is such an ingenious design solution.
Nov. 15, 1988, midnight
S1E5 - Alexander Fleming House
Stephen Bayley, curator of the Conran Design Museum opening in 1989 argues, in the face of popular opinion, that Alexander Fleming House (Erno Goldfinger, 1962) in London's Elephant and Castle is a building worth preserving in its original design.
Nov. 23, 1988, midnight
S1E6 - Glasgow School of Art
Artist Bruce McLean attended Saturday morning classes at the Glasgow School of Art from the age of 6, and went on to study there in the 1960s. But it is only recently says McLean, that he has realised the influence Charles Rennie Mackintosh's building (1897-1909) had on him.
Nov. 29, 1988, midnight
S1E7 - De La Warr Pavilion
First-year architecture student Sophie Hicks delights in the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, Sussex. Designed in 1933 by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, the building is one of the finest examples of modern seaside architecture in Britain.
Dec. 6, 1988, midnight
S1E8 - Creek Vean
Editor of Blueprint magazine Deyan Sudjic examines Creek Vean in Cornwall. It is a house built in 1966 by Team 4, a group of young unknowns. Two of them are now Britain's best known architects, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.
Dec. 13, 1988, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 10 min.
Season Runtime: 10 min.
Released: Nov. 1, 1988
Last Air Date: July 10, 1996, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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