Thatcher reviewed in the Architects Journal
April 14th, 2015
High Rise Dreams
A good article from the 11th in the AJ which makes good if uncomfortable reading for those of us who remember the years before it was all dismantled.
The biggest impact on the profession was the closure of the vast majority of public sector architect departments. In-house council teams had employed thousands of architects across the country.
My father was one of them. I remember still his painfully written letter from the 1980s – “I am sitting in a small room, trying to construct a letter to our local councillor on how I can retain my employment as a public architect” or words to that effect. In the years that followed he put his long experience as an architect to good use in the field of health and safety.
If you want to know more about the ethos that governed him and people like him read my page on the LCC and watch the film Utopia London by Tom Cordell
If you copy the title of an article that is unavailable and paste it into Google and then click the link that results eight times out of ten you get the full article displayed.
In the cases where you don’t it’s because you’ve got a cookie stored on your computer telling them that you’ve been there before. This isn’t the place to describe how to delete individual cookies for every browser (it varies a bit) but do some Googling along the lines of “remove cookies for Firefox” or whatever and delete all the cookies for the journal in question.
Then having done that try my first suggestion again. Nine times out of ten you will then get to read the article.
This won’t work for subscription sites like The Times where they have employed more sophisticated methods to collect their subscriptions.