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September 27th, 2015

27/9/2015

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     “I was in London at the LCC, extraordinarily fortunate to be sitting right in the middle of the birth of Brutalism… and like so many architects, came home brimful of ideas and determined to force them onto an unsuspecting public.”

Between 1953 and 1955, Miles Warren was employed by the London County Council Architects Department - the largest and most progressive architectural practice in the country. He was put to work draughting for the Alton West Estate - a Corbusian-influenced project in the southwest of the city.

     "I was hired, and with the greatest good luck joined a group that was to produce some of the best London City Council architecture in its heyday.”

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