Joe Gilbert’s latest film, Streets on the Sky, is the first in a series that will look at Robin Hood Gardens, the housing estate in Poplar designed by Peter and Alison Smithson that is threatened with demolition. Timothy Brittain-Catlin speaks about the historic and architectural importance of the estate here:
Joe Gilbert is a prize-winning filmmaker who specialises in short films on Brutalist housing. For more about his work see:
http://joe-gilbert.tumblr.com/
For more about the estate see:
http://www.c20society.org.uk/news/c20-revives-campaign-to-save-robin-hood-gardens/