Penelope Curtis
Penelope Curtis chooses the Chamberlin Powell & Bon buildings on the Leeds University Campus
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Director of Tate Britain |
Formerly Curator at Henry Moore Institute, Leeds and Head of Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds Museums & Galleries. Author of Patio and Pavilion: The place of sculpture in Modern Architecture.
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The Roger Stevens Building by Chamberlin Powell & Bon
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Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain, chooses the buildings at Leeds University聽built in 1970聽by the brutalist architects Chamberlin Powell & Bon.聽
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Concrete
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Owen Hatherley defends large concrete buildings聽such as聽Park Hill Flats in Sheffield.
From Night Waves 16 Feb 2011 on Radio聽3 聽聽
Robin Hood Gardens
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Lucinda Lambton on the fight to save the Robin Hood Gardens estate in Poplar, London.
From Listed 10 Oct 2008 from Radio 4
罢丑别听厂尘颈迟丑蝉辞苍蝉
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An interview with modernist architects Peter and Alison Smithson on contemporary British buildings.
From Profile 8 Feb 1971 on Radio 4
Photo by Godfrey Argent, 漏 National Portrait Gallery, London
The Barbican
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Michael Oliver visits The Barbican聽in London聽- also designed by Chamerlin, Powell and Bon - before its opening in 1982. Judi Dench and Michael Williams were the first actors to appear on its stage.
From Kaleidoscope 22 Feb 1982 on Radio 4
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The Concrete and the Divine: Jonathan Glancey on the modernist architects who revolutionised church design after WWII.