ABSTRACT
The enterprise was driven by a precocious spirit of experiment. All previous models of university design were denounced, from the collegiate examples of Oxbridge, to the adventitious complexes of the Redbricks, and even the parkland campus-type then being planned at the new University of Sussex. Lasdun announced he had never done ‘anything like it before’, while his clients insisted ‘Lasdun had no brief ’. A fresh understanding of university education was sought, one which engendered a vision of architecture and landscape integrated as one.3
