Sutherland Lyall: The State of British Architecture

"Architectural historians, like those in other disciplines, have to look for tidy patterns and clearly discernible mainstream developments in past events, ignoring the fact that for those who live it, history is a less tidy business altogether. One of the great virtues of Dr. Lyall's stimulating survey of British architecture on the eve of the eighties is that it is a contemporary view, reflecting not the wisdom of hindsight but the immediacy of a present in which many philosophies, ideologies and aesthetic viewpoints are being promoted; usually under the conviction - not uncommon with architects that they represent the only path of righteousness.
Illustrating his text with numerous photographs, Sutherland Lyall examines the neighbourhood make-believe of the neovernacular style, now replacing high-rise as the cliché of local authority architecture; the clinical high technology glitter of Norman Foster and his followers; the knowing and deliberate historical eclecticism of Campbell Zogolowitch Wilkinson Gough and other admirers of Edwardian and late Victorian architecture; and the heroes of the sixties, now grappling with a less than brave new world, where most of the economic and social assumptions of a decade ago have come under fire."

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