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Another of my anti-hero architect, James Stirling's apparent
fiasco's, social housing in Runcorn. Even when I visited in
1977 and the second phase (the low-rise fibreglass terraced housing)
was nearing completion, the entire development was roundly condemned
by the architectural community as an unfair experiment on the
under-privileged. As I wandered around the high-rise first and
then the low-rise parts, I talked with the local residents who
seemed rather less critical. Perhaps they were just too proud
to admit they were living as guinea pigs or maybe they really were
happy with their shiny new homes. So exploitative experiment in
industrialising social housing construction, or misunderstood
architectural masterpiece...or somewhere in between? |
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