Peterhouse college, in Cambridge, becomes a lens to re-discuss the complex and contradictory
\nevolution of British urban and architectural culture since the 1930s, marked by the role of the Mars group
\nwithin the Ciam and the contribution of Sir Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson, in the London
\nCounty Council first, and from 1956 in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge.
\nThe essay analyzes two residential buildings, Fen Court by Hughes and Bicknell in 1939-40, and William
\nStone Building, built in 1963-64 according to the design by Sir Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson,
\nthrough drawings and documents, partly unpublished, from the archives of the Royal Institute of British
\nArchitects in London, Peterhouse College and the Martin Center for Architectural and Urban Studies
\nin Cambridge. The role of critics in the opposition between ‘avant-garde’ and ‘traditionalists’ is revealed
\nthrough the figures of James M. Richards, Nikolaus Pevsner and David Watkin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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