Sam Webb

  • Isimeme Etomi’s design for a fish dock in the Makako area of Lagos, Nigeria.
    Review

    Student shows: Canterbury School of Architecture

    2009-07-03T00:00:00

    Canterbury students’ innovative and far-reaching approach to regeneration is impressive

  • Cover from the Penguin edition of Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists: “architects don’t have much idea of the life of people who put up their buildings”.
    Review

    The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists and me

    2005-11-18T00:00:00

    One lunch hour in the summer of 1971 I wandered into Central Books in Holborn and picked up a copy of a book with a picture of a builder on the front cover written by Robert Tressell. It was called The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, priced 15 shillings.

  • The early years
    Technical

    Large panel systems exposed

    2005-02-04T00:00:00

    Hailed as the solution to the housing crisis in the early sixties, large panel systems fell out of favour after the Ronan Point disaster in 1968. Here, architect and LPS campaigner Sam Webb explains how the blocks were constructed and why they are still a problem