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Robin Hood Gardens
26 April 2023 at 7:00 pm
Dave Barber Cinematheque, 100 Arthur Street
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Directed by Thomas Beyer & Adrian Dorschner
2022, Germany, 90 minutes, English
The now-demolished council estate Robin Hood Gardens often occupies opposing positions within the architectural imagination. Was Alison and Peter Smithson’s 1972 brutalist contribution to the London cityscape a misunderstood masterpiece or a well-intentioned failure? Fifty years on, filmmakers Thomas Beyer and Adrian Dorschner capture the building in all its glory just before the wrecking ball brings an end to the Smithson’s magnum opus. While the controversial East London council estate is honoured at the Venice Biennale, the film revisits the building’s critics, champions and the inhabitants themselves, to determine the true legacy of this concrete utopia. Robin Hood Gardens is dead. Long live Robin Hood Gardens.
Screened as part of the Architecture+Design Film Festival adff.ca.
Sponsored by 1x1 architecture.