Designing a Legacy on ABC – Tim Ross is on the hunt for great Australian architecture. In this two-part series he journeys to find and share his passion for buildings with people whose lives have all been touched by the power of good design.
From celebrated Australian architects to eccentric American millionaires, and from school kids and surfers to social housing tenants, a cast of great characters show him the amazing buildings in their lives …because Tim knows that when we create architecture, it also creates us.
While Tim is as happy as any of us to ogle at extraordinary homes, his love of design goes deeper than this. While beautiful and luxurious buildings can inspire us, he passionately believes that even the simplest things, when designed well, make our lives better…. and not just the buildings we live in either. There are all sorts of spaces in our lives which can have this effect.
Tim tracks down some of these structures and offers a new story about how our buildings shape us, today and into the future, acknowledging the millennia of human history this is all built upon on this continent.
Episode one, “Country”, deals with our understanding of place and country and how, since the European idea of architecture imposed itself on this continent 235 years ago, it has been slowly coming to terms with the complexity, uniqueness and beauty of the land on which we live.
Production credit: Presenter, Writer: Tim Ross. Executive Producers: Tim Ross and Sally Aitken. Producer: Aline Jacques. Director: Chris Eley. ABC Executive Producer: Madeleine Hawcroft. ABC Manager, Documentaries: Stephen Oliver. A SAM Content and Modernister Films production in association with ABC.
Designing a Legacy – Sunday 4 June, 2023 on ABC and ABC iview
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