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STEPHEN BAYLEY

Architects are almost always fascinated by cars. Not because they have outstanding mechanical aptitude – very few architects I know could explain weight-transfer or droop, for example – but because the generalities and details of car design allow almost endless opportunities for the fuss that architects like to make about the nature of things.

The better part of my own education was in the hands of an architect who was, I think, the first person in Liverpool

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