Thanks to young Upstart for a loan of this documentary which presents a partisan, engaging defence of modernist public architecture. I mention it here partly as it’s rather interesting, and also as I learnt through it that the 1966 film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was shot on the Alton Estate in Roehampton. This may mean little to non-South West Londoners, but I was tickled to know how this dystopian vision of the future, referenced in the title of this electronic page of toss, was filmed so close to home (and so close to the homes of the current leadership who seem so keen to bring that dystopian vision inches closer to reality).
(Source: vimeo.com)
