The Layman’s Guide to Classical Architecture Quinlan Terry, edited by Clive Aslet and with an introduction by HRH the Prince of Wales (Stolpe, £30)
TRAINED IN THE BLEAKLY GREY era of the late 1950’s, the classical architect Quinlan Terry has achieved a remarkable legacy. At the time he embarked on his architectural career, the profession was locked firmly in the postwar austerity of flat-roofed perfunctory modernism, with planar walls of exposed aggregate concrete or unadorned “stretcher bond” brickwork.
This was the “machine age” of mass production of buildings, and it is sometimes hard to remember how restrictive this period must once have been, as so much has happened since. To the more hard-line practitioners
