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Viva Space, Hope, and Brutalism

Elain Harwood (1958–2023) and her untimely death, reflecting on her work in Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture.

Guest post: York's architecture and pedagogy was one of enigmatic restraint. Ben Britton discusses the collegiate campus.

Guest post: William Mitchell's Minute Men brought the atmosphere of the stars and space travel to Salford. An artistic tour with Natalie Bradbury.

Shortly after Beloff's The Plateglass Universities, architectural historian Tony Birks published his thoughts on the new universities in 1972.

L. S. Lowry's work features perspectives from the Peel Building as they look across the campus towards a smoggy industrialised City of Salford.

Guest post: architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon understood the fundamentals at the University of Leeds. Lisa Brown investigates.

The time when the Minister of Education, Miss Ellen Wilkinson became the School of Chiropody's first client!

Michael Beloff wrote about the literal and metaphoric changes to the higher education sector in 1968.

Investigative work has uncovered new details about Salford's first student halls of residence at Oaklands Road, designed by Tom Mellor.

Guest post: Barely a week goes by at Sheffield Modernist HQ without an image of The Arts Tower. Helen Angell takes us on a campus walk.