ABSTRACT
In Colin St John Wilson memoirs J. M. Richards, editor on the Architectural Review from 1949, recalls that the London County Council (LCC) attracted 'the best of the young architects, who were prepared to sink their individuality in pursuing a social as well as an architectural ideal. Leslie Martin had probably caught the name of the articulate young architect Wilson already. Just before moving to LCC he had acquired some fame as one of the first architecture newspaper columnists, writing for Observer at the invitation of its editor, David Astor. Wilson argued that early post-war work of the LCC had completely failed to match the new 'spirit of socialism, welfare and reconstruction' or the radicalism of J. H. Forshaw and P. Abercrombie's County of London Plan of 1943, which had been accepted by the Council in 1945. Some 100 architects from across the various LCC divisions gathered in a hired room in a public house next to the LCC building.
