Screening | Robin Hood Gardens

Friday, October 4, 2024, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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More than 200 apartments were located in "Robin Hood Gardens." Copyright: Beyer & Dorschner Filmproduktion

More than 200 apartments were located in the "Robin Hood Gardens". Copyright: Beyer & Dorschner Filmproduktion

This event will be conducted in-person in room 315F. Registration is required. 

Please register in advance here. 

Join us at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture for a screening of Robin Hood Gardens, a documentary exploring the rise and fall of a brutalist housing complex in East London.

The now-demolished council estate Robin Hood Gardens has polarized the architectural imagination. Was Alison and Peter Smithson's 1972 brutalist contribution to London’s cityscape a misunderstood masterpiece or a well-intentioned failure? Fifty years on, filmmakers Thomas Beyer and Adrian Dorschner, together with photographer Hélène Binet, capture Robin Hood Gardens shortly before its demolition in 2017. As the controversial East London council estate is honored at the 2018 Venice Biennale, the film revisits the building's critics, champions, and the inhabitants themselves, to explore the true legacy of this concrete utopia.

Adrian Dorschner, born in Leipzig in 1981, studied Architecture in Dresden, Barcelona, and Zurich. He works as an architect and teaches at Architekturwerkstatt St.Gallen/CH.

Thomas Beyer, born in Leipzig in 1983, studied journalism and geography. He has a background as a journalist, director, and trainer, and is a commissioning editor for German TV.

This event is free and open to the public. 

THOMAS BEYER, ADRIAN DORSCHNER | DOCUMENTARY | GERMANY 2022 | 90 MIN. | ENGLISH

 

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