PD and the AR; Without me knowing, my colleagues commissioned this article from one of our most prolific, experienced and insightful contributors. He describes the last 25 years of the AR from the outside (almost): I owe him many thanks. PD.(reflections)(Peter Davey)(Biography)
From: The Architectural Review
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Date: 3/1/2005
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Author: Jones, Peter Blundell
Peter Davey established his editorial skills on the AJ before moving on to the AR in the late 1970s, but it was not until the issue of December 1980 that he became Managing Editor. The magazine had somewhat lost its way, cowed by the onset of Post-Modernism and split by bickering and soul-searching among its various editors. Lance Wright had tried bravely to take on the crisis with a series of leaders and correspondence in 1976-77 asking 'What is Architecture?', but this just further ...
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