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2 Willow Rd

Bettany Hughes’s Ten Places, Europe and Us

Dec 26, 201623:08Society & Culture

Bettany takes a tour of 2 Willow Road in Hampstead with National Trust volunteer John Escolme. The house was built by Hungarian architect Ernö Goldfinger both as family home and manifesto of his Modernist ideals. Goldfin...

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2 Willow Rd is an episode from Bettany Hughes’s Ten Places, Europe and Us. Bettany takes a tour of 2 Willow Road in Hampstead with National Trust volunteer John Escolme. The house was built by Hungarian architect Ernö Goldfinger both as fam...

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Published Dec 26, 2016, 23:08 long, audio available.

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Bettany takes a tour of 2 Willow Road in Hampstead with National Trust volunteer John Escolme. The house was built by Hungarian architect Ernö Goldfinger both as family home and manifesto of his Modernist ideals. Goldfinger is famous for designing Trellick Tower in West London to solve the post-war housing crisis. Despite its nadir in the 1970s when Trellick became known as ‘the tower of terror’, it’s now something of a cultural icon, although Erno never lived to see its rehabilitation. Bettany explores the way this remarkable tweed-wearing émigré brought the Bauhaus to Britain with Goldfinger’s biographer Nigel Warburton, and how at 2 Willow Rd, he paid homage to our Georgian architectural tradition in what is now considered to be a Modernist masterpiece.For more information about 2 Willow Rd, including opening times and dates, go to: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2 Willow Rd is an episode from Bettany Hughes’s Ten Places, Europe and Us.

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This episode was published on Dec 26, 2016.

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Published Dec 26, 2016 and 23:08 long