Reflections on the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast by REYNER BANHAM
Reader in Architecture in the University of London
Traditionally, historians of modern architecture have concentrated on the changes in structural technique that have helped to produce a characteristically modern style. Dr. Banham argues that the technological revolution in the control of the environment inside buildings by electric lighting and air conditioning should receive equal attention in spite of its less spectacular effect on external style. He takes as his example the Royal Victoria Hospital. Belfast, completed in 1903.