Interview with John Dryden (b.1945).
After graduation in 1969 as an architect, and unsuccessful job-seeking, John Dryden’s learnt about opportunities to work at Milton Keynes Development Corporation. He describes his interview with Derek Walker, Chief Architect; he arrived in MK in 1971, working initially in the Bletchley area team. He talks of some of the projects they worked on, commenting: ‘Derek Walker’s view was that he wanted the best … and the most original work that he could find.’ Talkiing of Netherfield, he comments it was never designed to use brick, but was intended to be something new and modern.
[From 44 minutes into this interview, to the end, it is difficult to make sense of the rest of the contents, as the tape was skipping and words repeated a lot or distorted.]
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