VIEW OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
[From the London Correspondent of “The Press”! LONDON, March 26. People living 2000 years hence would not remember present-day civilisation by the beauty of its buildings because the architecture of today would not last. This is the view of Professor Basil Spence, Hoffman Wood Professor of Architecture at Leeds University and architect of the revolutionary-designed Coventry Cathedral.
Addressing the annual dinner of the Yorkshire branch of the Institute of Structural Engineers at Leeds he said that he thought our civilisation would instead be remembered for the great dams it had built, its atomic power stations, bridges, roads and irrigation schemes.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28259, 23 April 1957, Page 6
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