The Culture Show BBC2 UK 10PM 10th Feb 2014

[escortmad79]

10PM Tonight! (10th Feb 2014)

Lego - The Building Block of Architecture!

Tom Dyckhoff explores Lego's relationship with architecture, and argues that it has changed we think about buildings.

Just in case you didn't realise it was on

[ultron32]

Is it in USA too?

[AndyC]

I was rather disappointed by it, particularly the comment about modern Lego being reduced to "little more than a jigsaw puzzle" - which just strikes me as a rather lazy opinion formed from nothing other than seeing a large variety of bricks and nothing else.

[Gnac]

I was rather disappointed by it, particularly the comment about modern Lego being reduced to "little more than a jigsaw puzzle" - which just strikes me as a rather lazy opinion formed from nothing other than seeing a large variety of bricks and nothing else.

REVELATION: The BBC isn't as good as people make it out to be, putting in the bare minimum of effort, and regularly abusing "Betteridge's law of headlines", especially when it comes to covering cultural matters which occur outside a particular manifesto, or field of knowledge. It's almost as though they commissioned it in a hurry.

Edited February 10, 2014 by Gnac

[caperberry]

I was disappointed too, a bit simplistic. I expected better of the Culture Show. And some weird omissions, like no mention of Moshie Safdie. Or the existence of the Architecture line. It would have been very relevant to mention Architecture Studio, and also its apparent failure in sales.

But interesting people and nice filming in Billund.

[Gnac]

It would have been very relevant to mention Architecture Studio, and also its apparent failure in sales.

AS interested as I am in both LEGO and architecture in general, I haven't heard much about 21050 in relation to its performance. I am a bit disgusted that it appears to be yet another inspiring thing that was not released in a region where I could easily buy it (MBA as an example). Without knowing more about the decisions which led to this situation, I can only despair at any future attempts to appeal to proponents of the obvious corossover between LEGO prototyping and the aesthetics of architectural design.

BAH!

[Lord Vladivus]

To be honest, I think it wanted to showcase that one guy, not necessarily lego as an architectural tool. I also noticed they mentioned Minecraft, and failed to mention the set based on Minecraft.