The Sound of the Sixties: Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

During the major planning drive by the University of Leeds that took place after World War II, architects were employed to draw up plans to expand and develop the campus. Many architectural plans were made, alongside two large bound proposals prepared by the architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, who are most famous for their concrete brutalist architecture in places like the Barbican - the grade II listed complex of housing, education, office and exhibition space located in the City of London, completed in 1976. Much of the text of the reports that Chamberlin, Powell and Bon submitted to the university is oriented towards a section of the campus referred to as "the precinct". The precinct area includes plans for a number of very large buildings and vast car parking zones. This 3 minute film is an acoustic psychogeographical response to the area called the precinct and features two of the most impressive of the buildings designed by the architects: the Worsley Building and the Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre (now a Grade II listed building).

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Education

Tags:

• chamberlin powell and bon
• university of leeds
• psychogeography
• tina richardson

[chipmastermorris]

very good film Tina!

[KATSEYE1]

mesmerisung! like walking through a mondrian and a tapias!