Lets start with a little film (below) on possibly the best and most iconic of film set designers.
Ken Adam, the name doesn't ring a bell? He is the designer of all of those brilliant master criminal
layers in the Bond movies. Think Dr.No and the set of the War Room (photo above) in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
The design style of these sets and the buildings they influenced came to be known as Cold War Modern.
Have a look at the link here to the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition on the Cold War Modern Design.
I really like the the style mainly because all of those Brutalist concrete buildings have mellowed with age and can be viewed from the safe distance of decades. It is rare to get a good biographical film on the life of a designer. Enjoy it.
coldwarmodern. (2008). Ken Adam, designer - Cold War Modern. [Online Video]. Oct 1, 2008. Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Cyp7bIZOM. [Accessed: 22 May 2012].
