The unseen universe; or, Physical speculations on a future by Balfour Stewart; Peter Guthrie Tait

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36 The school had a high proportion of foreign students at the time the subject studied there. The subject experienced no gender or race discrimination there; the majority of her friends were not British. The school encouraged a high level of individual responsibility, independent study and innovation, sometimes well beyond the boundaries of the traditional professional model. The subject graduated with the highest award of the school. She met the editor of this book there. Four of the five referees that supported her last application for employment are ex-students or teachers of the school.

The Architectural Association is a private school with fees set in the region of £9, 000 per annum. Fees for British architecture students at other British schools are in the region of £3,000 per annum and are usually paid by the state. Fees for overseas students at other British schools of architecture are in the region of £5,000 to £9, 000 per annum and are normally paid by the student. Scholarships are available at the Architectural Association for talented students with limited financial means but at present these cannot support the majority of the student body.

249–54. The architectural equivalent of treating ‘notes as indeterminate, inherently unstable sonic frequencies rather than…fixed phenomena’46 is a critique that strikes right at the heart of the discipline. Irrationality, disorder, instability? Architecture, as we know, is not in the business of providing these things. At a lecture I gave recently, lan Hall (a musician of African descent and no relation to Stuart) told the audience that at some point in the seventeenth century, someone ‘sat down’ and tried to recreate the lost art of Greek drama.

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