On the Building Design website is an article on post-war listed buildings by Elizabeth Hopkirk illustrated by a photograph that shows twenty-four of the country's living "listed" architects (the buildings are listed, not the architects). Only one of the architects is a woman.
Which makes me wonder if brutalist architecture would have taken such a hold in the United Kingdom if the architectural profession had been more gender balanced.
The article quotes Terry Farrell saying: "“There was a lot of rubbish built in the 1950s. I worked for the LCC and there were far more mistakes made then because people were reinventing without testing. There were an awful lot of flaws — technical as well as social".
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/brutalism-was-a-freak-says-architecture-tsar/5061193.article
Which makes me wonder if brutalist architecture would have taken such a hold in the United Kingdom if the architectural profession had been more gender balanced.
The article quotes Terry Farrell saying: "“There was a lot of rubbish built in the 1950s. I worked for the LCC and there were far more mistakes made then because people were reinventing without testing. There were an awful lot of flaws — technical as well as social".
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/brutalism-was-a-freak-says-architecture-tsar/5061193.article
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