Rodney Gordon was an architect who is considered to be one of the father's of Brutalism, the British style of Modernist architecture developed in the early 1960s. 

 

We join Rodney as he revisits his first project, The Faraday Memorial, a sleek stainless structure built at the centre of Elephant & Castle in 1959. 

 

He contemplates how he wanted the structure to inspire and capture the imagination as the centre piece of the 1960 redevelopment. Rodney gives us a unique insight into the optimism and excitement of the time and how he took inspiration from the cultural revolutions in music, cinema and art.