Building a Better Tomorrow

Robert Elwall read history at Trinity College, Oxford, and is now Photographs Curator of the British Architectural Library, RIBA. He has curated several architectural and photographic exhibitions including Unlocking the Thirties (1979) and Pavilions Near and Far (1992), as well as Bricks and Beer (1983) and Photography Takes Command: The Camera and British Architecture 1890 1939 (1994) for both of which he wrote the accompanying books. He is the author of Erno Goldfinger (1996), also published by Academy in the RIBA Drawings Monographs series, has published numerous articles on architecture and photography, and edited the CD-ROM Architecture & Design Illustrated (1997).