In the context of the exhibition The University Is Now on Air: Broadcasting Modern Architecture, the CCA presents twenty-four broadcasts from the course A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890–1939, by The Open University. To learn more about the project, visit https://www.cca.qc.ca/A305.
In television broadcast 11, Tim Benton provides a detailed look at the Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts of 1925. Benton offers a close reading of the buildings and designs exhibited to explain many of the paradoxical characteristics of French design during this period and to consider, using contemporary photographs, in what ways the architecture the exhibition’s pavilions could be said to reflect avant-garde tendencies.
Written by Charlotte Benton, directed by Nick Levinson, produced the BBC/Open University, aired 31 May 1975 on BBC2.
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