Journal 6: The Sixties

The Sixties is based on a conference held by the Society in 1997, covering architecture in relation to decorative arts and design in the 1960s. As usual with the Twentieth Century Society's journal, the articles are by experts who write in an approachable manner, often opening up new research on unexpected subjects. Now you can read about why the campus of Essex University is similar to the urban ideas promoted by the Prince of Wales, why people sat on the floor in the 1960s for the first time, who really designed the work of architect Owen Luder, why Biba was such a special shop, and why Gavin Stamp stopped wearing leather waistcoats and listening to Bob Dylan. We are specially pleased to be publishing a new piece of writing by Peter Smithson called 'The Spaces in Between', as well as articles by well-known authors on the sixties such as Lesley Jackson, Jonathon Green and Simon Sadler.

Contents

All Dressed Up: The Sixties Youth Revolution in retrospect Jonathan Green
Fab Fash Pop: "the look" of British Design during the early 1960s Lesley Jackson
When we sat on the floor: Furniture in the Sixties Jane Dillon
The Most "In" Shops for Gear Kate McIntyre
The Space Between Peter Smithson
WhiteLight/White Hea: Rebuilding England's Provincial Towns and Cities in the Sixties Elain Harwood
Modern Architecture for the Masses: The Owen Luder Partnership 1960-67 Rodney Gordon
Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury: A Good Bit of City? Patrick Hodgkinson
Modernism, Medicice and movement in 1960s Britain Jonathan Hughes
The Counter-Modernist Sublime: The Campus of the University of Essex Jules Lubbock
The Brutal Birth of Archigram Simon Sadler
I was Lord Kitchener's Valet or, How the Vic Soc Saved London Gavin Stamp

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