Projects
Demolishing Whitehall
In 1965, the architect Leslie Martin submitted to Harold Wilson’s Labour government a plan to rebuild London’s government district, Whitehall. Presented to an administration which had been elected on the promise of remaking Britain in the ‘white heat’ of technology, the plan’s architecture embodied the 1960s idea of an imminent jet age that seemed not just possible but imminent. Our co-written book, Demolishing Whitehall, tells the story of the Whitehall plan and investigates its inherent tensions between ideas of technology and history, science and art, socialism and elitism.
ARC People: Adam Sharr
Key Collaborators: Stephen Thornton, Politics, Cardiff University