Letter from London

摘要

A jolly round of anniversary parties has cheered the architectural scene this autumn, not least ADP's 50th, celebrated last week in the Royal Festival Hall. Having been invited to say the proverbial few words, I turned to the AJ from 1965 and as ever found a mixture of content that partly seemed to come from another planet (the registration board suspending a practice for daring to contact London borough architects offering its services) and partly could have appeared this week (about housing, infrastructure, education and so on).