BUILDING APPRAISAL

摘要

Do Patel Taylor's new Silberrad Student Centre and its substantial extension to the existing library block representthe death of a great, half-century-old experiment, or reasonable modulations of Brutalism through time? In the 1960s and 70s this compact campus was a stark demonstration of architectural otherness and a hotbed of socio-political objection. Along with the University of Sussex, Essex was regarded as fundamentally fractious. Wivenhoe, where many of the latter's students lived, had a suitably grungy sobriquet: Sociology-on-Sea.