For Charles Jencks history was a disruptive, active process, and the mediation of architecture through publication was central to his thinking. As he explained to me, ‘You can write history on the battlefield and you get one kind of history. You ca...
Derek Sugden was a structural engineer, but in his finest achievement – the concert hall at Snape Maltings – he triumphed also as an acoustician. He was a co-founder of both Arup Associates and Arup Acoustics, yet many members may know him best f...
My father Norman Engleback played a significant role in the LCC Architects Department in the 1950s and 60s, and was, according to Jonathan Glancey in his book Twentieth Century Architecture (1999), one of the ‘Young Turks’ of that department. ...
Any chance that the architect Arthur Edwards, who has died aged 97, will be remembered must depend on the ultimate fate of his two published books, The Design of Suburbia (1981) and Images of Eden (2003). Though quite different in topic, they share t...
A few years after helping to design Britain’s greatest post-war building – for Leicester University’s engineering department – James Gowan moved to a stuccoed early-Victorian house in Notting Hill. It was a narrow end-of-terrace house built a...
Derek Walker will be remembered as the Chief Architect of Milton Keynes, a post he held from 1970 to 1974, and as Chief Executive of Central Milton Keynes, 1974-76. Milton Keynes was the last and largest of the UK’s New Town programme and the only ...
One of the Society’s early members, Laury Reynolds, has died aged 96. He and his wife Davina were regular attenders of lectures and visits, and he came on a Nottingham weekend trip aged 90. He was known to many of us as the Treasurer of the Cinema ...
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