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Bankside Regained, 1949

Bankside Regained, 1949

A Precinct for Liverpool Cathedral, 1948

A Precinct for Liverpool Cathedral, 1048

The Man in the Street

...But a genius for irregular composition and for the picturesque (in the original meaning of the term) is native to the English character and has informed many of the most important national contributions to the visual arts.

the arrangement of buildings and open spaces in a precinctual or at least courtyard-like manner; the juxtaposition of old and new buildings; the variation of surface materials; and finally the modulation of vistas between the close and far, with a preference for the ‘look-through’, the glimpse and indirect views.

A Programme for the City of London.Part Three

Kenneth Rowntree: the variety of shape, pattern and texture in the ornaments, wallpapers, fabrics, etc, which you buy in the interior furnisher’s shop, should be matched by an equally generous variety of shape, pattern, texture and vegetation in our urban exteriors.

Old Nuremburg (or is it Rothenburg?) comes to the Finchley Road