WE ALL HAD A WONDERFUL VENEER OF BRAVADO - BUTEVERYBODY WAS RACKED WITH DOUBT

摘要

Those two 40 Under 40 events in 1985 and 1988 were, in their way, defining events for the current architectural generation of those over 50, writes Sutherland Lyall. Roughly two-thirds of the winners are now, if not exactly household names, somewhere on that gravelly ramp between C-list and the top of the B-list. Given their relative youth at the time, a surprising number have stayed true to their original practices. Steve Baker, for example, moved from Arup Associates, but only in the exodus following Peter Foggo, to become a director in his new practice, Foggo Associates. Paul Collinge is still Aldington, Craig and Collinge, although he is now the only principal in the practice. John Jenner is still at Greenhill Jenner. Pierre d'Avoine is still Pierre d'Avoine Architects. Ken Moth is still with BDP. Others, such as Will Alsop and John Lyall, have split up with the fierce heat of hostile divorce. David Chipperfield and Kenneth Armstrong, who appeared in the first 40 Under 40 exhibition, had already gone their acrimonious ways by the time the second one took place. Others parted more amicably. Lazenby and Smith, for example, broke up the partnership when Doug Smith decided that he wanted to work in a better climate and disappeared to the Bahamas - he is still practising there to this day.