First published at 11:01 UTC on March 21st, 2018.
Aged just 25 and fresh out of the RAF, Ian Nairn burst onto the architectural scene with Outrage, a blistering attack on the soulless destruction of Britain by shoddy post-war planners. Published in the influential Architectural Review in June 1955,…
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Aged just 25 and fresh out of the RAF, Ian Nairn burst onto the architectural scene with Outrage, a blistering attack on the soulless destruction of Britain by shoddy post-war planners. Published in the influential Architectural Review in June 1955, it led to the formation of the Civic Trust, whose remit was to tackle the 'subtopian' eyesores Nairn had so graphically exposed.
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