AS: Society at the moment asks architects to build these new homes for them but I<\/p>\n
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mean this may be really stupid we may have to rethink the whole thing it may<\/p>\n
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be that we should only be asked to to repair the roofs and add the odd<\/p>\n
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bathroom to the old industrial houses and just leave people where they are to<\/p>\n
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smash it up in complete abandon and happiness so that nobody has to worry<\/p>\n
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about it anymore<\/p>\n
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PS: We still feel under an obligation to give the absolutely that the to provide<\/p>\n
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the best possible quality irrespective of what people expect and what treatment<\/p>\n
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it it’s going to get.<\/p>\n
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Narrator: Yet another building site in the East End of London. An East End rebuilt almost<\/p>\n
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out of recognition to those who knew it before the war but this site is<\/p>\n
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different there are no tower blocks for one thing. It’s by allison and peter<\/p>\n
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smithson virtually the only british architects to have an international<\/p>\n
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reputation and whose influence on architecture since the war’s been out<\/p>\n
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of all proportion to the relatively small amount of their work to be built.<\/p>\n
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their school at Hunstanton Norfolk and the economist office building in St<\/p>\n
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James’s London embodied significant innovations but their chief interest<\/p>\n
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is housing and they’ve done much important theoretical work on it. This<\/p>\n
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site at Poplar however represents the first opportunity they’ve had to put<\/p>\n
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their ideas on housing into practice and inevitably perhaps it’s very far from<\/p>\n
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being just another lot of council flats.<\/p>\n
PS: We regard it as a demonstration of a more<\/p>\n
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enjoyable way of living in an old industrial part of a city it is a model<\/p>\n
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an examplar of a new mode of urban organization and we think we have here a<\/p>\n
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site big enough so that when it’s finished you’ll be able to smell feel<\/p>\n
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and experience the new life that’s being offered through your full range of<\/p>\n
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senses.<\/p>\n
AS: A general objective when we get a new site is to knit together what is<\/p>\n
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good in the surroundings by the insertion of a new building to inject<\/p>\n
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thereby new life even to buildings and things that are old and tired. Right from<\/p>\n
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the start we began to identify with a site to put down mental roots hooking<\/p>\n
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onto rosebay willowherb, the children overturning wrecked cars, the smell of<\/p>\n
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curry on the stairs, rejected tenements, oddments of past character or obvious<\/p>\n
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large identifying fixes of the district or the city or even the region in our<\/p>\n
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case, the big power stations. In the late forties and early fifties when we first<\/p>\n
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started thinking about housing the lack of identity and the lack of a pattern,<\/p>\n
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any pattern of association we used to talk of objects as found, that is<\/p>\n
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anything and everything can be raised by association to become the portrait of<\/p>\n
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the ordinary and in this way an industrial site is very easy to identify<\/p>\n
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with compared with a semi detached housing estate a site on an industrial<\/p>\n
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blight or ones industrial heritage depends how you look at it can very<\/p>\n
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easily be used to renew a district to re-identify and become a real piece<\/p>\n
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of urban renewal. This is something to do with urban scale and that industrial<\/p>\n
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sites are somehow forthright and honest. This may be a personal thing as coming<\/p>\n
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from the Northeast we see the ships as connectors of people to their district<\/p>\n
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and to the world outside. On this side the ships can be a decoration to the<\/p>\n
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urban scene – the ships on the Thames approach the Isle of Dogs turn at right<\/p>\n
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angles and go past. The river is the biggest fix of all a big geographical<\/p>\n
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fix there are also two historical fixes which affect our site. The East India<\/p>\n
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dock of 1806 and the 1844 railway.<\/p>\n
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AS: When we started work three and a half years ago and you could still walk up to<\/p>\n
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the fifth floor the now-demolished tenements you could look over the<\/p>\n
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upcoming roar the tunnel traffic into the East India dock. Calm sheet of water a<\/p>\n
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few ships. Now when we’ve reached the fifth floor level again it’s being<\/p>\n
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filled and when you should be able to see it from the houses you won’t be able<\/p>\n
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to. We’ll be left with a handful of China shards on the site maybe ballast from<\/p>\n
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the East Indiaman, maybe cargo fallout used locally<\/p>\n
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This is not to say we relied on the East India dock or any other fix for<\/p>\n
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support.<\/p>\n
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We realize you’re in a situation of flux and change. The life has gone from the<\/p>\n
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two historical fixes on site and the ships on the terms are literally passing<\/p>\n
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either down to TIbury if the container port opens or to Antwerp and<\/p>\n
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Delta port if it doesn’t. We realize you have to be strong enough to be<\/p>\n
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self-supporting. Big enough to be self-supporting, that you have to carry<\/p>\n
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the full responsibility for renewal of your part of the district and ultimately<\/p>\n
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of the city<\/p>\n
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PS: The site is bounded on three sides by very heavy traffic on the left the<\/p>\n
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northern approach to the Blackwall tunnel at the bottom the east in your<\/p>\n
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dock road which shared you to grow from a four-lane to a six-lane highway and on<\/p>\n
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the right by Cotton street the main feeder road to the Isle of Dogs.<\/p>\n
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We’ve tried to overcome the problems of this high level of traffic noise in a<\/p>\n
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number of ways. At the edge of the back line of payment as near as we can get<\/p>\n
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the source of noise we put an acoustic wall which is higher than motorcars<\/p>\n
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which throws the noise back towards the road instead of allowing it to pass<\/p>\n
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through towards the building. But to stop it looking like a prison, the wall panels<\/p>\n
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have angle gaps between them – so if you walk along you can seek keep seeing<\/p>\n
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through but there is no direct path for sound to pass through. Inside this a line of<\/p>\n
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trees helps to break up the sound of traffic, and the building’s themselves<\/p>\n
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have been deliberately organized to create an area in the center of the site<\/p>\n
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protected from noise. A stress-free zone. The buildings are not organized like<\/p>\n
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filing cabinets one after the other.<\/p>\n
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The site has been split like a kipper with the same functions on the inside in<\/p>\n
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each building on the outside we put the noisy next to the noisy that is the<\/p>\n
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walkways or decks and the living rooms – but the living room themselves are<\/p>\n
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protected by these vertical pieces which stop noise traveling across the face of<\/p>\n
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the building and by designing the windows so that they can check in a<\/p>\n
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position that admits air at the top but present prevents the entry of direct<\/p>\n
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noise at the bottom. With these various devices we can get the noise level in<\/p>\n
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the living rooms down to a reasonable level. On the inside away and protected<\/p>\n
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from noise we place the bedrooms and the kitchen. The kitchens are so planned that a<\/p>\n
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mother can keep an eye on a two to three year old child playing out on the access<\/p>\n
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deck on one side and also from time to time<\/p>\n
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look down on the other side into the into these play spaces which are<\/p>\n
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intended for the somewhat older children. In the middle of the stress free zone<\/p>\n
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the ground is modeled upwards to discourage people from playing football<\/p>\n
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and so making excessive noise though provision for<\/p>\n
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football is made elsewhere on the site. The mound doesn’t look very large on the<\/p>\n
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model but it is in fact two stories high and it will be surprising eminence<\/p>\n
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within the flat landscape of the site. There is already in London one place<\/p>\n
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that has a central stress-free zone and that is Gray’s Inn. Gray’s Inn is still an<\/p>\n
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extraordinarily civilized place. It has become more livable as traffic has got<\/p>\n
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worse by contrast to the areas surrounding it.<\/p>\n
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Its little pool of calm in central London is one of the real discoveries<\/p>\n
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almost of the last 10 years. The idea that one could having rooms,<\/p>\n
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chambers there looking out onto this quiet central tree-filled area is marvellous.<\/p>\n
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AS: London has these simple good spaces but above this scale there’s virtually nothing.<\/p>\n
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London really has never faced up to being more than a collection of villages.<\/p>\n
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PS: No, the idea that you could have a collection, a scatter of events<\/p>\n
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as a city it is quite acceptable to us providing of course that the<\/p>\n
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communication systems work well. But, when the city becomes big when the city<\/p>\n
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becomes an urban region the scale of the parts, the scale of these events that the<\/p>\n
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pieces of the scatter, the scale of them’s got to be increased so that it<\/p>\n
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matches the scale of the urban region and that the scale of the communication<\/p>\n
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systems the scale of its leisure areas the scale of the zones of operation of<\/p>\n
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the city all about to get bigger and more obviously structured and inter<\/p>\n
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related to one another<\/p>\n
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Structured and interrelated so that they can be read as easily by ordinary people<\/p>\n
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as we hope our building will be read. This site is just big enough for us<\/p>\n
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to say and for people to read a whole sentence in the language of architecture.<\/p>\n
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The language of architecture is something that can both explain and<\/p>\n
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enhance the use of a building.<\/p>\n
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Thus in an old building you recognize where the door is because it<\/p>\n
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is identified by portico. In a new building we have to produce equivalent<\/p>\n
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symbols which indicate where you’re supposed to walk in, where you drive, where you bring<\/p>\n
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the dust cart and so on.<\/p>\n
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On this site we’ve cut moats in the ground on the traffic side of the buildings and<\/p>\n
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there all vehicular movement and garaging take place. So coming to the<\/p>\n
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building as a walker from a bus stop<\/p>\n
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you never come into contact with vehicles and conversely the driver of the<\/p>\n
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dust card has no fear of knocking down an old lady.<\/p>\n
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Similarly the building’s themselves explain how they are intended to be used.<\/p>\n
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These long horizontal recesses can only be decks for walking along, and the entry<\/p>\n
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points to them by way of lifts and stairs the vertical movements are clearly<\/p>\n
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indicated by the change of scale and volume. On the decks there are what we<\/p>\n
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call \u201ceddy places\u201d outside the front doors where the dwelling takes a piece<\/p>\n
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of the deck for itself so your doormat is not kicked aside by the passers by<\/p>\n
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and you can put out a few pots of plants or leave parcels. This \u201ceddy places\u201d is out of<\/p>\n
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the general flow of movement along the deck. The deck itself is wide enough for the<\/p>\n
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milkman to bring his cart along, or for two women with prams to stop for a talk and<\/p>\n
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still let the postman by, and the building also explains its use in that<\/p>\n
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wherever you need to take hold of something or move around some woodwork<\/p>\n
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of concrete element then there’s a smooth rounded corner. Its form will<\/p>\n
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respond we hope to the way people want to live now with their equipment, their<\/p>\n
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domestic appliances, and their cars. In a way it would be like the first Georgian<\/p>\n
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Square in london it will be to outsiders something that they can, they can<\/p>\n
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immediately see is a new form and to the people who live in it it’s it offers a<\/p>\n
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a place with a special character that in which will release them and change them<\/p>\n
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and be capable of being lived in generation after generation. At the turn<\/p>\n
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of the century architects dreamed of garden cities and in every town and village in<\/p>\n
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England we see council houses built, built, and building right up till<\/p>\n
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today which are the children of the garden city idea – and in the twenties in<\/p>\n
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the heroic period of modern architecture the models, the prototypes, developed on<\/p>\n
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the continent for a simple clean sun giving architecture are now being built<\/p>\n
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in England in the Sixties. What we have now is people living in these clean<\/p>\n
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sun-drenched boxes with fitted carpets inside and vandalism outside.<\/p>\n
AS: The<\/p>\n
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realities of our working life are going to be traffic, noise, air pollution,<\/p>\n
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vandalism, lack of quality.<\/p>\n
PS: And the theory developed in the twenties and thirties<\/p>\n
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the simple architecture in which there will be few cars. This, this dream this<\/p>\n
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model has been overrun. Overrun by the glut of the supermarts and the glut<\/p>\n
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on the roads.<\/p>\n
AS: The accuracy of the brief given to architects makes for the reality. It<\/p>\n
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aids the architect’s accuracy in pinpointing the dream.<\/p>\n
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The brief given to our outside architects by the Greater London Council<\/p>\n
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is continually being revised by feedback from tenants and from their own<\/p>\n
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maintenance people. The GLC are probably the world’s best briefers of Architects<\/p>\n
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in this sense certainly I, I’ve never heard of any better. But although this is<\/p>\n
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done very responsibly the building of this mutated dream by all the people<\/p>\n
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concerned, it seems that the GLC really got very small thanks from Society for<\/p>\n
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this because when we take foreign visiting architect around these sites<\/p>\n
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they’re literally horrified at the amount of vandalism we see.<\/p>\n
PS: But<\/p>\n
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funnily enough that doesn’t seem to change one’s own attitudes towards<\/p>\n
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building. That is that we we still feel under an obligation to give the absolutely<\/p>\n
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that the – to provide the best possible quality irrespective of what people<\/p>\n
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expect and what treatment it it’s going to get,<\/p>\n
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nevertheless it’s very depressing for the contractors and the buil, the<\/p>\n
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builders, the contractors, the subcontractors and the architect to feel<\/p>\n
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that all the effort they’re putting in is going to be – much of the effort that<\/p>\n
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that they put in is going to be smashed up.<\/p>\n
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AS: I mean society at the moment asks architect to build these new homes for<\/p>\n
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them but I mean this may be really stupid we may have to rethink the whole<\/p>\n
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thing it may be that we should only be asked to to repair the roofs and add the<\/p>\n
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odd bathroom to the old industrial houses and just leave people where they<\/p>\n
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are to smash it up in complete abandon and happiness so that nobody has to worry<\/p>\n
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about it anymore. You know we may be asking people to live in a way that that<\/p>\n
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is stupid. They may be just want to you know be left alone.<\/p>\n
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PS: One of the men are inside said that this<\/p>\n
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what we were trying to do with too good for the people that were going to live<\/p>\n
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in it and we find this a unacceptable but to say that it’s too good but one<\/p>\n
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wonders why that’s what why one feels like that and I suspect that it’s partly<\/p>\n
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historical, that is that architects have always felt the need to build not for<\/p>\n
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the occupying generation but for, to sort of body out the ideals of their period in a<\/p>\n
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way that they could be felt by the by generations that follow. In the East<\/p>\n
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London there are five or six very famous churches. One of them is close to this<\/p>\n
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site St Annes Limehouse by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Now Hawksmoor couldn’t have<\/p>\n
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cared I suspect why he was asked to build these churches. They were built<\/p>\n
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buy having a coal tax with which the program for building them<\/p>\n
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was abandoned halfway through<\/p>\n
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in fact the things that happened him, the way the money was raised very similar to<\/p>\n
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the situation now, but he built in the best possible way and the building has<\/p>\n
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lived on through 10 or 15 generations into the present carrying the kind of ethos<\/p>\n
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of the early 17th century to us now and we feel in the same way an<\/p>\n
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obligation which is outside of the present financial or economic situation<\/p>\n
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to build for successive occupying generations.<\/p>\n
AS: Unless a building outlasts<\/p>\n
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its first users we get no body of choice that is there’s no pool of housing from<\/p>\n
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which people can choose how to live, where they want to live<\/p>\n
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and more important you get no buildup of a comparable body of quality. This was<\/p>\n
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the situation we stepped into after the war completely vandalised environment of<\/p>\n
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anything will do, make do, you know there were no possible standards because<\/p>\n
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there was nothing – nothing decent to compare things to. Therefore maintenance<\/p>\n
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of quality objects is a real cultural necessity. Londoners are not particularly<\/p>\n
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good at this I don’t think they really know about it, that is if culture of cities was a<\/p>\n
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criteria for joining the common market, any African state would have as good a<\/p>\n
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chance as Londoners have.<\/p>\n
PS: If we’re not to be torn apart by our differing<\/p>\n
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individual natures as makers and destroyers society has to to to to make<\/p>\n
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a framework so that the that the the makers can get ahead of the destroyers.<\/p>\n
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AS: Although it’s not the architects business to talk about, think about up mechanisms<\/p>\n
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for changing the responsibility for housing in order to combat vandalism it<\/p>\n
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is our duty to speak about it in order to safeguard the architects dream of what<\/p>\n
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housing could be like and there are obviously understood ways, such as giving<\/p>\n
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a tenant full responsibility for keeping the house and the outside the<\/p>\n
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door step and the grounds in perfect condition to hand onto the next<\/p>\n
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generation who after all are an extension of ourselves they’re not some<\/p>\n
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nebulous character<\/p>\n
PS: At the moment there is a terrific lack of fit between those<\/p>\n
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things which people own, the way people treat things they own and the, the way<\/p>\n
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they think about and treat what is in the public<\/p>\n
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area of ownership.<\/p>\n
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This is reflected terribly obviously in the, when you go to any, any dwelling<\/p>\n
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any house in any part of the country the inside is almost always well-kept well<\/p>\n
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furnished, clean. The outside, particularly in state housing. Broken lifts, smashed-up<\/p>\n
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glass in entrance halls, all the things we all know, know about. The architect is in<\/p>\n
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a strange situation, but he can recognize that the peoples aspirations about how<\/p>\n
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they wish to behave.<\/p>\n
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That’s a funny way of putting it, are<\/p>\n
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changing that is in spite of the vandalism, that people are learning to<\/p>\n
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expect a style of life which has more quality, and in a sense more control<\/p>\n
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and this is most clearly seen in the leisure pattern.<\/p>\n
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Ironically enough an opportunity to extend this leisure pattern on a huge<\/p>\n
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scale is being missed not far from our site.<\/p>\n
AS: The scale of the London Docks is the<\/p>\n
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sort of scale we’re talking about this is an area equal to medieval London and<\/p>\n
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yet it’s a tiny area scene in the whole greater london in region. A few water<\/p>\n
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parks at that scale not needing grass-cutting no trouble with<\/p>\n
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footballers wearing the surface off. This water as leisure pleasure structured<\/p>\n
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housing groups is the european fashion at the moment. For Tower Hamlets such a fashion<\/p>\n
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is an economic bonanza like having an oil well in the back garden, or backyard<\/p>\n
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in their case. France has a regional plan<\/p>\n
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which is Rousillon to Languedoc virtually Marseille to the Spanish border<\/p>\n
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of water pleasure structured towns. As well as this there’s development all<\/p>\n
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along the coast, and architects Spoerry has built his dream of what housing could be<\/p>\n
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like in relation to water using for this town traditional provincaI materials<\/p>\n
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and the peasant language of architecture, but his dream was of a pedestrian town<\/p>\n
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and the house owners in Port Grimaud take the cars into load\/unload but take them<\/p>\n
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outside to park. Therefore this town is a pleasure to use, it works it’s a real<\/p>\n
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economic success the sort of place you can take your children to to the beach<\/p>\n
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and they can go get an ice cream and you just don’t have to worry about it – and it<\/p>\n
25:06<\/p>\n
only started in June 1966. We, we could allow ourselves such<\/p>\n
25:14<\/p>\n
pleasures in London we needn’t be so puritanical about the fact that<\/p>\n
25:19<\/p>\n
the dock water is right next the River Thames and so near the Lea Valley leisure<\/p>\n
25:25<\/p>\n
pleasure grounds. Venice sinks in the mud, they’ll be round collecting to save it.<\/p>\n
25:32<\/p>\n
Prop it up. We could have a a new Venice in London. It’s virtually the same size if<\/p>\n
25:42<\/p>\n
you take from St Katharine’s dock by the tower to East India Dock which is by<\/p>\n
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our site.<\/p>\n
25:50<\/p>\n
The people who will live in Robin Hood gardens will use this way out of London<\/p>\n
25:56<\/p>\n
in their cars. They’re the privileged few in our society they enjoy the welfare<\/p>\n
26:06<\/p>\n
state they don’t have heavy taxes to give them angst and it’s not for them to<\/p>\n
26:13<\/p>\n
worry about the quality of the motorway, the fact that the fences are inconsistent the<\/p>\n
26:20<\/p>\n
lampposts are ugly or there are too many signs the bypassed and the bypasses are<\/p>\n
26:29<\/p>\n
unprotected, the generation younger than ours extremely depressed about the lack<\/p>\n
26:36<\/p>\n
of quality in the road program, considering so<\/p>\n
26:43<\/p>\n
many roads are being built in Germany and in America. It’s as if we were a country of<\/p>\n
26:48<\/p>\n
ostriches but our attitude to motorways, ring ways is at last, a chance of a great reversal.<\/p>\n
PS: A chance<\/p>\n
27:01<\/p>\n
at last to get all traffic out of domestic environments. We are longing for<\/p>\n
27:08<\/p>\n
the day in which the motorway pattern and the mass transit system lines can settle<\/p>\n
27:15<\/p>\n
down so that we can get on with the job of rebuilding a quiet more humane living<\/p>\n
27:22<\/p>\n
environment.<\/p>\n
AS: Society at the moment asks architects to build these new homes for them but I 0:22 mean this may be really stupid we may have to rethink the whole thing it may 0:26 be that we should only be asked to to repair the roofs and add the odd 0:31 bathroom to the old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estates-under-threat","category-housing-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}