Architecture on Radio 3
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Painting the Weather
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Le Corbusier
Listen to classic BBC archive interviews with the Swiss-French architect and painter
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Tom Ware
Time Shift Series Editor
It's amazing now to think that, for radical young architects in Britain in the 50s, the place to realise your ambitions was working for local authority Housing Departments. But, inspired by the modernism of Le Corbusier and their own post-War socialist ideals, a generation of architects embarked on a radical programme of social engineering that was to change the face of our inner cities from Victorian slums to shining, high rise concrete blocks.
Carole Lochhead's excellent documentary traces the realisation of this dream - and its ultimate failure in the face of underfunding and the grim realities of council estate life.
