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Miles Glendinning

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation and Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include the award-winning Tower Block (with Stefan Muthesius), Architecture’s Evil Empire, and Modern Architect, on the life and times of Sir Robert Matthew.

Jane Thomas

Jane Thomas is Curator of Architectural Collections at the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, repository of the Sir Basil Spence Archive. In 2007 she co-curated the major retrospective exhibition ‘Back to the Future: Basil Spence 1907–76’.

Louise Campbell

Louise Campbell is Reader in Art History at the University of Warwick, specializing in late nineteenth and twentieth-century architecture. Her publications include Coventry Cathedral: art and architecture in post-war Britain and an edited volume Twentieth-Century Architecture and its histories.

Roderick Easdale - Country Life, April 2012

It is a large and ambitious book, with contributions from David Walker, Clive Fenton, Robin Skinner and Brian Edwards, but is clearly organised with topic-based essays and a well-illustrated list of works. It keeps the needs of a general reader in mind – and gives excellent value for money.

Hugh Pearman - RIBA Journal

At his busiest – at the turn of the 1960s – Spence made himself even busier by being elected RIBA President, though he missed out on the Royal Gold Medal despite being nominated several times. The Institute has paid him back, all these years later, with this handsome book, edited by leading academics from Warwick, Edinburgh College of Art, and the RCAHMS repository of the Spence archive. The cover price is remarkably reasonable for a book of this size and scope.