PP/3/5/3/19 - Engineering Art, 6/12/65
Reference code
PP/3/5/3/19
Level of description
Item
Title
Engineering Art, 6/12/65
Date/s
1965
Quantity & Format
5 leaves
Personal name
Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
Happold, Edmund
Snow, C. P.
Happold, Edmund
Snow, C. P.
Subject
Tate Gallery
Design Centre
Ove Arup and Partners
Council of Industrial Design
National Engineering Laboratory
Engineering design
United Kingdom. Ministry of Technology
Design Centre
Ove Arup and Partners
Council of Industrial Design
National Engineering Laboratory
Engineering design
United Kingdom. Ministry of Technology
Creator
Beck, Derek.Creator
Pritchard, John Craven,Administrative/Biographical history
recipient
Scope and content
Refers to the increase in interest in `design' over the last 30 years as indicated by the Design Centre, and the parallel decline in the prestige of the engineering designer. Mentions C.P. Snow's `The Two Cultures', Sir Herbert Read, Edmund Happold of Ove Arup, the Ministry of Technology, the National Engineering Laboratory, the COID and the Tate.