Architecture was the subject chosen for the second outing by the class. Two locations in Cambridge were offered, the University developments on the Sidgwick Site and West Cambridge. I led a group of five in the former on the afternoon of Thursday 5th November. We had to cope with the bad lighting from heavily overcast skies. Overall the site was adversely impacted on by the extensive construction work on the Stirling Building. Each person was asked to submit two or three pictures to be shown to the class.
I had 57 to choose from. In editing them down to three I didn’t look for any particular theme, other than wanting ones that seemed the best of a dull bunch. They were:
- the Raised Faculty Building of 1959-61 by Casson Condor Partners;
- the Law Library of 1995 by Norman Foster; and
- the 2018 Dorothy Garrod building at Newnham College by Walters & Cohen.
