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In this programme, Dr. Geoffrey Baker, a qualified architect and also a lecturer in Art History at the Open University, describes the process of designing his own house in a village near Newcastle-...upon-Tyne. As he himself says, although his house "was completed thirty years after our period, it does, I think, show how architects' ideas have been completely revolutionised by developments in design techniques which took place between 1890 and 1939". Dr. Baker starts by describing the various elements he wanted in his final design and with the help of his actual preliminary sketches he traces the beginnings of the ideas which led him forward to the finished house. With the help of a scale model he describes his motives for placing each element where it is and concludes by paying perhaps the strongest tribute amongst the many factors that have influenced him to Le Corbusier, whose work and influence is met on many other occasions during the course. The programme attempts therefore to show how the mind of one particular architect works and tries thereby to provide an insight into the mental processes of the architects with whom the students are to become familiar during the rest of the course.
In this programme, Dr. Geoffrey Baker, a qualified architect and also a lecturer in Art History at the Open University, describes the process of designing his own house in a village near Newcastle-...upon-Tyne. As he himself says, although his house "was completed thirty years after our period, it does, I think, show how architects' ideas have been completely revolutionised by developments in design techniques which took place between 1890 and 1939". Dr. Baker starts by describing the various elements he wanted in his final design and with the help of his actual preliminary sketches he traces the beginnings of the ideas which led him forward to the finished house. With the help of a scale model he describes his motives for placing each element where it is and concludes by paying perhaps the strongest tribute amongst the many factors that have influenced him to Le Corbusier, whose work and influence is met on many other occasions during the course. The programme attempts therefore to show how the mind of one particular architect works and tries thereby to provide an insight into the mental processes of the architects with whom the students are to become familiar during the rest of the course.
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