Royal Festival Hall

By Hugh Pearman Hugh Pearman Hugh Pearman 2007-05-30T00:00:00

‘For the first time in 12 years British architecture is enjoying a little freedom from the shackles of austerity,’ wrote my predecessor in this chair, Eric Leslie Bird, in May 1951.

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