Book: Royal Festival Hall - The Official Record

Published in 1951, hardcover. Just look at these illustrations! Living in London, it's easy to take the Royal Festival Hall for granted. This book, however, serves to remind us of how 'frankly contemporary' (as it says in the foreword) the architecture was. Like the Festival of Britain two years earlier, the book testifies to the modernist boost tired old Britain got after the traumas of a world war, from attention to detail in acoustics to the seating design. A fascinating book.