Education in Transition
The University of Salford: The ‘White Heat’ of Modernity.
Institutional aspirations of a modern university. The 1963 campus masterplan and significance to the University of Salford, the City of Salford and Plateglass Universities.
An MPhil project focused on the architectural landscape during the expansion of higher education in the 1950s and 1960s, featuring updates and guest posts.
Recent posts.
Campus as art gallery
William Mitchell’s Minute Men brought the atmosphere of the stars and space travel to the Allerton Building. Natalie Bradbury takes us on a tour of the ‘campus as an art gallery.’
Architecturally grounded and focused, Building the New Universities.
Several years after the Plateglass Universities, a book which has become instrumental to understanding the new 1960s universities, architectural historian Tony Birks wrote Building the New Universities.
Capturing The Modern Backdrop: Shirley Baker exhibition
From January to April 2023, the Modern Backdrop is running a small exhibition of the work of the Salford-born social documentary photographer Shirley Baker at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford.
University of Salford and the 'White Heat' of Modernity 