Building a better tomorrow

Robert Elwall has produced a strongly visual overview of British architecture in the 1950s, using pictures from the archives of the RIBA Architectural Library, of which he is photographs curator. The book starts, not surprisingly, with the Festival of Britain and moves through the decade subject by subject, covering, among ...

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