Architecture for Everyman

Patrick Nuttgens likes modem architecture. Amid the cries of woe he looks at the achievements of post-war British architects and finds much to admire. It's no good expecting anything like St Paul 's Cathedral to be built in the 20th century. There isn't the money nor the need for it. What society wants are schools, hospitals, shops, airports, service stations and homes - buildings which respond to the technology of the times and needs of the people who are going to use them. To prove his point, Nuttgens takes us on an odyssey from a housing estate in Leeds to an insurance company in Ipswich, a leisure centre and hospital in Swindon, a school in Edinburgh, a Darlington factory, London's National Theatre and the extraordinary headquarters of the Halifax Building Society.