Catch up: Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Oxford

30/06/2021

This is a recording of the event that took place on Thursday 25th February 2021 at 18.30.  Oxford: Presented by Professor William Whyte

In 1977 Alan Bullock observed ‘It comes as a surprise to most people to be told that if they want to see a representative collection of the best British architecture of the last twenty years they cannot do better than visit Oxford.’  The big question, of course, is why? What happened to Oxford to turn it from what Howard Colvin once termed ‘a hotbed of cold feet’ into a place that commissioned much more modern architecture?

This is a recording of the event that took place on Thursday 25th February 2021 at 18.30.  Oxford: Presented by Professor William Whyte

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