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Sep 10, 2012 · Twelve Views of Kensal House 1984, directed by Peter Wyeth | Film review. Film. Time Out says. Wyeth's documentary investigates Maxwell Fry 's ideas when he designed one of Britain's first modern...
Twelve Views of Kensal House: Directed by Peter Wyeth. With Stephen Bayley, Michael C. Burgess, Alice Cole, Gwen Cole. The history of Kensal House, seen through the experiences of its 1980s occupants.
In 1984, a 55-minute documentary, Twelve Views of Kensal House, was filmed on the property by Peter Wyeth. The film called attention to tenants who occupied the building since 1936. It featured Maxwell Fry, Stephen Bayley and Michael C. Burgess. Recognition. Kensal House was a RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner in 1963.
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Overview. The history of Kensal House, in West London, is seen through the experiences of some of its occupants from the early 1980s, who are juxtaposed against archive film. It shows how the house has declined in status since its construction in 1936 – a showpiece for the Gas, Light and Coke Company. Peter Wyeth. Director. Top Billed Cast.
Commentary talks about the cost of maintaining Kensal House’s social facilities as being too expensive to be extended, after the war, across the country: "The decline of Kensal House was the price of the war, a loss of community feeling still being paid for well beyond Kensal House."
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