The show traces the history of architecture and urban planning in Reykjavík in the twentieth century. The series begins in 1915, in the big fire where many wooden houses in the town were destroyed. Then the time of the concrete houses began.
Seasons & Episode
We choose years in the twentieth century and trace the history of architecture and planning in those years or the years around them. The first is 1915, the year of the great Reykjavík fire, when people mostly stopped building out of wood and the age of concrete began.
The next is 1930, when Iceland became sovereign, Guðjón Samúelsson designed large buildings and looked for a national architectural style. But modernism has also begun to make its way.
1945 is the year when the war ends, the city was expanding beyond Hringbraut, there was a big housing problem and the first apartment buildings were built. Churches under construction at this time caused controversy.