Essex Architecture - Creating a University Episode 4
The first Vice-Chancellor and the campus architect Kenneth Capon were appointed on the same day in October 1962. In this, the fourth in our Creating a University series of podcasts, staff and students from the early days talk about the vision these two men had for “a harmonious composition of towers and terraces floating in the lap of its wooded valley”. They reminisce, too, about life at the University of Essex before the buildings went up – with lectures in Nissen huts and departments based in the old stable blocks at Wivenhoe House. Interviewees - Dawn Ades, Professor of Art History - Sir John Ashworth, founding Professor of Biological Sciences - Peter Haine, Physics student, 1964-67 - Jules Lubbock, Visiting Professor in the Department of Art History - Gabriel Pearson, Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies for over 30 years - James Sutherland, structural engineer and designer - Peter Townsend, founding Professor of Sociology (died 2009) - Margery Wilson, Literature student, 1971-74