Elizabeth Darling, "Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–32" (Lund Humphries, 2026)

Palace of the Ether: Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC, 1922–1932

(Lund Humphries, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Darling is about the

architecture and design of broadcasting in the 1920s and 1930s,

examining the buildings which the BBC occupied in its founding decades,

with a particular focus on Broadcasting House in London. It argues that

these environments were as constitutive of the Corporation’s identity as

the programmes and people that they housed. Borrowing from the

architectural writer Christopher Hussey’s characterisation of

Broadcasting House as a ‘palace of the ether’ Dr. Darling asks how the

immaterial medium of the broadcast was given material and spatial form

by the BBC, and the engineers, architects and designers whom they commissioned.

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