In 2014, in a research paper produced as part of the Venice Biennale we asked the question: “who will write the book about Womersley?” Many people could have and almost did, including: Joseph Blackburn, Rebecca Wober, Matthew Wickens and Simon Green - there are a lot of Womersley experts out there. Womersley has attained an almost mythical status amongst architects and rarely has an architectural monograph been more necessary than Neil Jackson’s book. The greatest concentration of Womesley’s buildings are within a 20 minute drive of each other in the Scottish Borders and his buildings shine especially brightly there, where modernism is such a rarity.

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