Massive expansion is in progress in our existing universities; six new universities are in different stages of preparation. Yet no one seems to have thought of translating the piece-meal process of expansion into an imaginative joint building programme such as was pioneered in our post-war schools. Are the universities justified in their insistence on individual patronage if it results in lower standards of building and worse value for money? Devised and narrated by THOMAS PAKENHAM , University Correspondent of The Observer
Speakers:
LORD JAMES. Vice-Chancellor of the new University of York
ALAN BULLOCK , Master of the new St. Catherine's College,
Oxford IRENE MANTON , Professor of Botany in the University of Leeds
SIR HUGH CASSON and PETER CHAMBERLIN , architects
ARTHUR Ling , City Architect and Planning Officer,
Coventry ELIZABETH LAYTON , author of a recent report on new approaches to public building
Fourth of a group of programmes on some aspects of public architecture in Britain
Produced by Leonie Cohn