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The big ideas which form the intellectual agenda of our age are illuminated by some of the best minds in the world. Melvyn Bragg and three guests investigate the history of ideas and debate their application in modern life. |
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ARCHITECTURE AND POWER
The role which architecture has played in our public life throughout history, whether in homage to an individual or as a monument to an institution or ideology, has always been a potent symbol of wealth, status and power. From castles to cathedrals, from the pyramids to Canary Wharf, architecture has always served to glorify in some way the animating ideal of the time.
Why is architecture such a powerful form of expression? Have architects concerned themselves mainly with the masses, or restricted their designs to the demands and aspirations of the elite? What can a country’s buildings tell us about its ideas of its own past and present identity?
Guests
Adrian Tinniswood
Architectural historian and author of Visions of Power and His Invention So Fertile – a Life of Christopher Wren, Pimlico, ISBN: 0712673644
Gavin Stamp
Senior Lecturer, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art
Gillian Darley
Architectural historian and biographer of John Soane, An Accidental Romantic, Yale University Press; ISBN: 0300086954
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