Lost Futures: The Disappearing Architecture of Post-War Britain explores the rise and fall of buildings constructed in Britain between 1945 and 1979 that reflected the deep-rooted belief in architecture’s capacity to build a better world. Author Owen Hopkins highlights the ideas and values that shaped these buildings' creation – and how changing external contexts, whether social, economic or political, as well as the buildings’ own internal characteristics, played a part in the subsequent demise and destruction of these ‘concrete monstrosities’.

See author Owen Hopkins discussing the subject with Ewan Davis on Newsnight here (skip to 32 minutes, available until 15 March 2017) or scroll down to More Details to see other reviews and features on this fascinating volume.