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‘A terrible battle with architecture’: Denys Lasdun in the 1950s, part 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2008

Barnabas Calder
Barnabas Calder
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University of StrathclydeArchitecture Building131 RottenrowGlasgowG4 [email protected]
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Abstract

By 1957, Denys Lasdun was bored:

‘We must try to get away from the sameness of English architecture. If you look at modern Italian work, for example, it is at least clear that architects have engaged in a terrible battle with architecture and certainly many of them have been disastrously defeated; but most English architects seem to have reached a gentlemanly understanding with their art that they should leave each other strictly alone.’

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 59 - 68
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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