Proud Denys Lasdun shows off his UEA designs

Terrific archive footage courtesy of the East Anglian Film Archive, of Denys Lasdun in 1963 showing off and discussing his student flats for the University of East Anglia. As with his 50s East London flats and his 70s National Theatre, he spends a lot of time talking about the flow of the buildings, how people might happen across each-other and how they might become social spaces. Great footage too of the model and the snowy site. Here's the Lasdun film.

The archive is packed with gems. Here's a half hour documentary from 1974 showing the finished halls, as part of a film made by the Netherlands about the university, packed with interviews and terrific shots of the insides and outsides of Denys Lasdun's buildings, and a glimpse of student life from the era of Malcolm Bradbury's university satire The History Man. Here's the documentary.