| Admin/Biog History | Anti-Ugly Action, was an activist group founded by a group of students from the Stained Glass Department of the Royal College of Art, who demonstrated outside new buildings which they found offensive in the late 1950s.
Stamp wrote three articles on Anti Ugly Action for Apollo, January 2005, Blueprint, January 2007, and AA Files, no 70., 2015. |
| Description | This file includes material concerning Stamp's research into the activist group Anti Ugly Action (AUA) and their campaigns in the 1950s. In particular it contains material concerning Stamp's research for the 2015 AA Files article. It includes correspondence with members of the AUA, including Ken Baynes, William Wilkins, and Barry Kirk.
Of particular interest:
-correspondence from Richard Calvocoressi, dated 26 Nov 1991-7 Mar 2016, concerning John Wood's archive
-Stamp's research notes from interview with Ken Baynes, 12 Nov 2014
-Stamp's research notes from interview with Gerald Nasson, 19 March 2015
-printed pdf of chapter titled 'Anti-Ugly Action' from Adam Smith's unpublished book 'Now You See Her, Pauline Boty, First Lady of British Pop'
Also includes issue 2/6, Summer 1961 of Crossbow, the Bow Group quarterly, which includes an article by John Wood titled 'Architects and Ugliness' |
| Image Caption | Letter from Richard Calvocoressi, dated 26 Nov 1991, concerning John Wood's archive |