Nine programmes on continuity and change in modern society
4: A Sense of Place and Time by DENYS LASDUN , F.R.I.B.A.
The notion of deliberately preserving things of the past is not more than 250 years old. Architects must build in terms of today's ethos, but they cannot escape the environmental conditions that the past has created. Mr. Lasdun considers some of the problems raised by the presence of the past.
Mr. Lasdun is Architect of the Royal College of Physicians In Regent's Park. London. of a block of flats facing on to St. James's Park. London, and designer of the proposed building for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors tn Parliament Square.
January 31: R. P. Dorc , Professor of Sociology (Far East), London School of Economics These talks are being printed in ' The Listener '