Malcolm MacEwen
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"In his significantly titled Crisis in Architecture (1974), Malcolm MacEwan criticized writers like Banham for their "failure to realise that, far from living in the 'second machine age', we are in fact entering the first period of human revolt against unrestrained or misdirected science and technology.'" --Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future (2003) by Nigel Whiteley |
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Malcolm MacEwen (24 December 1911 – 11 May 1996) was a Scottish conservationist and communist activist.
MacEwen became disillusioned with the CPGB, and resigned after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. His position at the Daily Worker was untenable, and he instead found work at the Architects' Journal, then in 1964 became editor of the Royal Institute of British Architects' RIBA Journal. There, inspired by his second wife, Ann MacEwen, he opposed prioritising traffic needs in planning, and called for increased public input into architecture, culminating in his book, Crisis in Architecture. By this time, he was Director of Public Affairs for RIBA, a position from which he retired around the end of the decade.
