ABSTRACT
Peter Jay argued that each individual should have as much control of the details of his environment as possible and the Architectural Review concluded that an architect with the ability to see problems as a whole, rather than a physical scientist, was best placed to integrate environmental components. It argued that, contrary to the idea of interior design as a ‘separate activity’, the architect should operate more in harmony with people and their needs. The list of extenuating anxieties from the 1960 article is interesting, particularly fear of appearing non-brut, or failing to conform to the Brutalist aesthetic that so appealed to architects’ machismo. Architects and designers can still become nervous about Postmodernism, fearing that alignment with it throws doubt on their commitment to macho Modernism, but to reject it is to deny the broader aesthetic shift that has transformed architecture and design in the last 40 years.
