| reference:  http://www.sah.org/oldsite06012004/daah/daah8.html
| 1991: Bristol, Katharine Grace
| BEYOND THE PRUITT-IGOE MYTH: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN HIGH-RISE
| PUBLIC HOUSING, 1850-1970
|
| School: University of California, Berkeley
| Advisor: Evenson, Norma
| Source: DAI-A 53/10, p.3393
| Order No: AAC 9228582, available (356 pages)

Wrecking crew

Channel 4's series Demolition proposes to find Britain's most-hated
building and have it knocked down. This is dangerous ground, writes
Jonathan Glancey

....

Fashion is a fickle thing. What we believe to be masterpieces today
might well turn into tomorrow's horrors. In the early 1960s,
unfashionable Gothic Victorian buildings, such as the Midland Grand
Hotel in London's St Pancras, were saved from demolition by articulate
campaigners, in this case the unlikely pairing of the whimsically
nostalgic John Betjeman and the rigorously modern Nikolaus Pevsner. This
was a time when the height of new buildings rose each year with
hemlines, and to be Mod was seen to be as good a thing in architecture
as it was in pop music and fashion.

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