Let the good times roll: 1970s

By and Peter Murray Peter Murray 2010-09-14T10:20:00

Foster Associates’ Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts

My last leader as editor of BD was written in May 1979. “I took over shortly after the three-day week,” I wrote, “and followed the profession into the abyss of the worst slump since the 1930s.”

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