Letter from London

摘要

The recent BBC television series on the five British architects who have shaped at least part of the modern world was a reminder that it is easy to take for granted groups of talented people who are more or less contemporaries. One wrongly assumes they are part of a natural order, rather as athletics fans became accustomed to the idea that because we had Coe, Ovett and Cram, we would dominate middle-distance running forever.