The Age of Concrete — Season 1, Episode 2: 1930
Documentary • 31 min • 1 season, 5 episodes
Episode synopsis
The next is 1930, when Iceland became sovereign, Guðjón Samúelsson designed large buildings and looked for a national architectural style. But modernism has also begun to make its way.
About The Age of Concrete
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.