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Architectural History Volume 57: January

Subject Areas: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press - Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 2059-5670
SJR: 11

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‘Brutalism Among the Ladies’: Modern Architecture at Somerville College, Oxford, 1947-67

2016 Architectural History

doi:10.1017/S0066622X00001465

In 1945, Janet Vaughan, a distinguished haematologist, became Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, her Principalship lasting until her retirement in 1967. Described in her obituary as ‘a woman of extraordinary vitality and not a little impatience’, Vaughan — awarded the DBE in 1957 — played...
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Graeme Shankland: a Sixties Architect-Planner and the Political Culture of the British Left

2016 Architectural History

doi:10.1017/S0066622X00001477

Graeme Shankland (1917–84) conforms in many ways to the popular image of a 1960s planner with his lyrical advocacy of inner city motorways and his suggestions of enormous programmes of renewal in ‘outworn’ Victorian city centres. As an advocate of the belief that ‘our problem in Britain is that...

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