Contents

Introduction

The Forties

Context: A Burgeoning Modernism

The Foundation of the Centre

Educating Architects and the Public

The Fifties and Sixties

Context: Affluence, Consumerism and Sprawl

Bursting into Print Paul Walker and Justine Clark

The Gallery Damian Skinner

The Battle for Town Planning

The Seventies and Eighties

Context: Commercial City

The Centre as a Protest and Lobby Group

The Recognition of Heritage Values

The Nineties and Beyond

Context: Leisure City

Exhibiting Architecture

Turning Sixty

Notes

Select Bibliography

Architectural Centre Presidents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Index