corridors/ living space

C.P. Snow first used the phrase 'corridors of power' in his book Homecoming in 1956. It soon became a widespread, conjuring up a world of officialdom, hierarchy, whispers and secret machinations. The advent of open plan was supposed to put pay to all that, but research from Rachel Hurdley reveals the hidden values of corridors. She tells Laurie and archict Jeremy Till about the chance meetings, gossip and happy confrontations which wll be lost if we fail to appreciate the seemingly unimportant passage between doors. And Simon Duncan, Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the University of Bradford talks about the phenomenon of LAT, a form of relationship that keeps partners out of each other’s living space.

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