PCL: Building Architectural education in the 1960s

Tanis Hinchcliffe’s rescheduled lecture, PCL: Building Architectural education in the 1960s will now take place this Thursday (7th May 2009)
6.30pm, Room M421
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road, London NW1. (opposite Madame Tussauds, nearest tube Baker street)

On the 10th May 1960, almost exactly 49 years ago, the then London County Council announced proposals for the development of the Polytechnic:

“Proposals for the establishment of a college of architecture and building as part of a scheme for the reorganisation of Regent Street Polytechnic…we have approved in principle proposals for the transformation of the Polytechnic into a federal institution, composed of three colleges, namely a college of architecture and advanced building studies, a college of engineering and science, and a college of commerce… Each of the three constituent colleges would have the fullest possible measure of independence and would, it is hoped, attract principles and staff of the high quality.”

(Source: Ethel M. Wood, ‘A History of the Polytechnic’, 1965)