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Building on success: Meet Sara McGowan Featuring: audio, OU

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

09 May 2007

Sara McGowan has found her perfect job. Her skills in science and art combine in the design of environmentally efficient and beautiful buildings...  Read more : Building on success: Meet Sara McGowan

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The De La Warr PavilionCreative Commons Image iknow-uk under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

Modernism goes to the seaside.  Read more : The De La Warr Pavilion

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Will AlsopCopyright

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

Can Will Alsopp teach the British to love modernism again?  Read more : Will Alsop

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Richard RogersCopyright

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

An architect who believes in city living - and living as well as possible in the cities.  Read more : Richard Rogers

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Maxwell FryCopyright

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

Fry brought a liberal tinge unusual amongst a socialist-leaning movement.  Read more : Maxwell Fry

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Erich MendelsohnCopyright

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

Some suspect that the architect of the De La Warr Pavilion was never enitrely committed to Modernism...  Read more : Erich Mendelsohn

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Post-war optimism (1945 - 1960)Creative Commons Image Xavier de Jauréguiberry under CC-BY-NC-ND licence

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

The post-war period in modern architecture saw a new style of building for a new era.  Read more : Post-war optimism (1945 - 1960)

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Berthold Lubetkin Used with permission

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

For Berthold Lubetkin, architecture was a means to a political end.  Read more : Berthold Lubetkin

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The Modernist Movement: Arrival (1928 - 1939)Creative Commons Image tpholland under CC-BY licence

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

During the 1930s, modernism moved from being a middle-class dream to a direct influence on working people's lives.  Read more : The Modernist Movement: Arrival (1928 - 1939)

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The Barcelona (German) Paviliondegreezero2000 under CC-BY-SA licence

By The From Here To Modernity team (The Open University)

26 November 2001

Freed from the need for a building to have a function, the pavilion could allow modernism to be at its most extreme.  Read more : The Barcelona (German) Pavilion

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As the Olympic flame wings its way around the UK, the OU's Aarón Alzola Romero asks: just how immemorial is the Olympic torch relay?

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