What we're seeing: 'The triumphs and failures of post-war architecture'

April 22nd, 2014

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This collection of television programmes examining the triumphs and failures of post-war architecture, from the BBC archives, is available to watch online.

The collection features a defence of Alexander Fleming House by critic Stephen Bayley, first broadcast in 1988; an introduction by journalist Janet Street-Porter to the house designed for her by architect Piers Gough, first broadcast in 1991; an appraisal of Hauer-King House presented by architect Will Alsop, and a programme about Alton Housing Estate in Roehampton presented by Sir Richard Rogers, both first broadcast in 1996.

For more information on the series, visit BBC Four Collections