Denys Lasdun discusses why models are so important for him in order to understand how spaces are connected, and how, ‘this is at the biological centre of architecture’.

Interview with Jill Lever in 1997, Architects Lives, C467/09 

Part 9 [00:23:45- 00:26:03] 
Copyright British Library 

Full interview available at https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Architects-Lives/021M-C0467X0032XX-0001V0

This clip can be listened to at Drawing Matter, https://www.drawingmatter.org/

Drawing Matter is an archive of architectural drawings established by Niall Hobhouse in order to actively promote new ways of thinking about architecture through the process of drawing.  The collection contains many thousands of drawings and spans the period from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Denys Lasdun, ‘Models’

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