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• Letter: Diane Haigh obituary

  04-10-2022 19:16
  Not only was Diane Haigh influential in the architectural world, but her drive for holistic, sustainable designs led her to value the role of landscape architecture. This was recognised by her honorary fellowship from the Landscape Institute in 2012, after working with me as a “critical friend” on one of our publications.As a member of CABE’s national design panel, I felt that Di as director did more than anyone to champion the role of landscape architects in the design review
  
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• Sam Webb obituary

  04-10-2022 18:21
  Architect and safety campaigner who listened to tenants’ views on postwar tower blocksWhen he was aged six, Sam Webb accompanied his father to the grounds of the Tate gallery in London, to see an exhibition of prototype factory-built homes that gleamed with promise for better postwar social housing. That show, in 1943, resonated with him: three years earlier, during the blitz, he had seen the windows of his family’s house and shop in East Finchley, north London, blown away. It was a
  
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