ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney when he returned back to Britain. In Denmark Rod Hackney was grown used to informed dialogue between the public, architects and the state. In Britain there were two simultaneous monologues, the public in opposition to official policy. Faith in the state machine and the better way offered by Modernist architecture had been badly shaken. During the busiest building years construction workers had been given the bonuses to complete jobs quickly, and so, as Ronan Point proved, instead of waiting for the delivery of parts they had improvised to earn more money. The concept of the client as patron of the arts was seen as outmoded and therefore sacrificed. In Victorian times the best materials and the craftsmen were used to create anything from the factories to hotels as the objects of beauty and permanence.
