The Age of Concrete
tv show
5 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired September 01, 2016
Genres:
Overview
The show traces the history of architecture and urban planning in Reykjavík in the twentieth century. The series begins in 1915, in the big fire where many wooden houses in the town were destroyed. Then the time of the concrete houses began.
1960
Season 1 - Episode 4 - 0h 28m
Air Date
September 22, 2016
Overview
The 1960s is the time when the aesthetics of modernism become very dominant, from this period there are, for example, houses designed by Sigvaldi Thordarson. There, people assumed that most of the old town would be demolished and large motorways laid through it.