I think this duplex may have inspired our own home when Benson and Forsyth designed it back in the 70s because there are many similarities to be drawn ,but there is a key difference, LC was able to use better materials.
In the 21 years I have spent in the UK, I have heard many people criticise LC and modernists making them responsible for the social abandonment which followed the occupation of many of the UK estates in the 70s... Putting in the same bag good as well as bad designs and tower blocks as well as houses, the blame fell on the buildings. This I find to be unhelpful because there are in fact many case studies we could learn from and build on.
Nowadays , of course, it is a given that moving people away from everything they hold dear and familiar while providing them no guidance or mental health support to adapt to their new lives is a recipe for disaster. There is hardly a building in the planet to which anyone could seamlessly move into without requiring some form of period of adaptation and support.
In the 70s, however, British society found easier to blame the emerging tension on modern Architecture and allegedly egotistic architects and so the myth developed.
I don't know our profession will ever recover from this but I hope we find a way to convey the value we can bring to the table to, among other things, help drive agendas which have longer term thinking.
For instance, i'd love to remove the stigma attached to social housing and explore ideas which can help meet the housing demands which are required while building communities which can work together.
