ADH 2020: Shortlist Interview - Otto Saumarez Smith
In the lead up to the Annual Lecture and Awards Ceremony, our President, Neil Jackson, interviews the authors shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. In this interview, Neil is joined by historian Otto Saumarez Smith to discuss Boom Cities.
Dr Samaurez Smith reflects: ‘The SAHGB has been a huge support and influence on my becoming an architectural historian. I am therefore thrilled and proud to be shortlisted for the Alice Davies Hitchcock award, a prize that has been won by many of my intellectual heroes.’
Model of the ambitious plan for Whitehall, 1965; Leslie Martin, Whitehall, A Plan for the National and Government Centre (1965). © Open Government Licence
Otto Saumarez Smith’s Boom Cities: Architect- Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain' is published by Publisher: Oxford University Press. You can purchase the book here.
Follow Otto on Twitter @osaumarezsmith
