plate-glass university
English
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editEtymology
editModelled on red brick university, from the use of plate glass in modern architecture. Coined by British barrister Michael Beloff in 1970.
Noun
editplate-glass university (plural plate-glass universities)
- (UK) Any of several universities founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s in the era of the Robbins Report on higher education.
- 2022, Owen Hatherley, Modern Buildings in Britain: A Gazetteer[2], Penguin UK, →ISBN:
- Keele is historically important as the first ‘Plate Glass University’, but also for the vague carelessness of its planning and architecture, which made it a cautionary example, leading to the much more coherent masterplanning and landscaping at the Universities of Sussex (p. 238), Essex (p. 190), York (p. 394), East Anglia (p. 198) and Stirling (p. 508).