We Were There: How Black Culture, Resistance and Community Shaped Modern Britain Scottish Architecture shows what a vital contribution

shows what a vital contribution they can still make at every stage of an architectural project

quantity surveyors and construction managers

reanimate and remake the urban environment as a site of radical social transformation

Through beautiful photographs

showcased by the likes of the Seagram Building and Farnsworth House

We Were There: How Black Culture, Resistance and Community Shaped Modern Britain Scottish Architecture shows what a vital contributionFrom the late 1970s to the early 1990s Britain was in tumult: rocked by Margaret Thatchers radical economic policy, the rise of the National Front, widespread civil unrest. With anti immigration policies in the political mainstream, Black lives were on the frontline of a racial reckoning. But it was also a time of unrivalled Black cultural creation, organising and resistance. This was the crucible in which modern Britain came into existence. We Were