Why can’t we make architecture intelligible to the general public?

By Eleanor Jolliffe2017-08-01T07:59:00

A 1948 book encourages the lay observer to believe they can engage with architecture. Why are we still struggling with an elitist image nearly 70 years later asks Eleanor Jolliffe

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