Philippa Tristram

Philippa Tristram most recent book, Living Space, is discussed by Peter Campbell in this issue. She is a senior lecturer in English at the University of York.

Letter

Tiananmen Revisited

19 November 1992

The intensity of feeling expressed by correspondents reacting to my article confirms that it was necessary to write it. A.C. Grayling, Professor MacDougall and Denis MacShane do not address the issues; they preclude discussion. Although my sympathies naturally lie, as theirs do, with the victims, I do not feel that this exonerates me from considering all other points of view. It is alarming when an...

Four Walls

Peter Campbell, 20 April 1989

The Picturesque, with its cottages ornées and simulations of Tuscan rusticity, is hard to take seriously. Yet it accompanied a radical change in English architectural thinking. This happens...

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