Victorian Voyage, Part IV - The Future

Episode 12 January 04, 2022 00:30:01
Victorian Voyage, Part IV - The Future
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Victorian Voyage, Part IV - The Future

Jan 04 2022 | 00:30:01

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Show Notes

In this final installment of our journey through Victorian architecture, we travel the globe in the wake of the Royal Navy to see how the technologies that allowed the British Empire to grow also made Victorian architecture a global style. Then, we travel to the Wild West of the US to see how this backwards-looking school of design led to the radical new architecture of Modernism.

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