Denys Lasdun interview from 1976

The National Theatre building on the South Bank of the Thames opened in 1976. It had been designed some years before for a different site, further along the river where the London Eye now sits, and to include a mirror building, whch would have been an opera house.

Here is some terrible quality but still fascinating interview footage with the architect Denys Lasdun taken in 1976, in which he discusses the philosophy behind his work, and in particular the National Theatre and UEA ziggurats for which he is best known.

It's not really worth watching, per se, but it's definitely worth listening to, as the image quality is so bad but the surviving audio is okay.