Research in architecture and urban studies at Cambridge in the 1960s and 1970s: what really happened

摘要

There has been much recent historical interest in the research that went on in Cambridge (England) from the mid-1960s at the centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies (LUBFS), with articles published by the historians Mary Louise Lobsinger and Sean Keller.1 Leslie Martin, former chief architect of the London County Council, became Head of the Cambridge Department of Architecture in 1956. He and Lionel March set up the centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies in 1967. There had been research in building science and architectural history going on at Cambridge before that, but the programme of LUBFS was of a different kind and on a different scale. The centre grew fast and by 1973 had some 18 researchers and an equal number of PhD students.