BEYOND UTOPIA: CHANGING ATTITUDES IN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE (TV)

Summary

This program examines the ideas and theories of six prominent architects and analyzes the changes in the world of American architecture in the 1970s. Critic Martin Filler and historian Rosemarie Bletter discuss the revolution in architecture, in which postmodernism represented a rejection of the dogmas of the International Style. Filler and Bletter examine the lives and works of six of the main theorists and practitioners of postmodernism: Denise Scott Brown, Peter Eisenman, Frank O. Gehry, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, and Robert Venturi.

Details

• NETWORK: SDR (Germany)/Channel 4 (United Kingdom)
• DATE: 1984
• RUNNING TIME: 0:58:30
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T:20139
• GENRE: Arts documentaries
• SUBJECT HEADING: Architecture, American; Art - Analysis, appreciation; International Collection - United Kingdom; International Collection - Germany; Postmodernism
• SERIES RUN: SDR (Germany) and Channel 4 (United Kingdom) - TV, 1984
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Peter Brugger … Executive Producer
• Michael Kustow … Executive Producer
• Michael Blackwood … Producer, Director
• David Schmerler … Associate Producer
• Haag Bletter, Rosemarie … Narrator, Interviews and narration by, Production (Misc.), Consultant
• Martin Filler … Narrator, Interviews and narration by , Production (Misc.), Consultant
• Denise Scott Brown
• Peter Eisenman
• Frank O. Gehry
• Michael Graves
• Philip Johnson
• Robert Venturi