Presenting great architecture and promoting sustainability: Channel 4’s Grand Designs
A new study in the journal Design and Culture explores how the programme Grand Designs presents architecture and domestic design to a non-specialist audience. Peter Lloyd (University of Brighton) and Arlene Oak (University of Alberta) focus their study on two episodes of the programme, both of which feature homes made from straw bales. In their view, how Grand Designs and its presenter Kevin McCloud deal with sustainability, notions of expertise and the design process itself are what makes it a unique offering in a