21 MARCH 1952, Page 5

A photograph of a model may be misleading, but to

all appearance the Central Colleges at Leeds are to be housed in a building looking like nothing as much as an up-to-date textile factory. It may be that the building will be well-appointed internally; it may be that there are adjacent buildings with which it has to conform; the photograph sheds no light on that. But there can surely be some distinction between academic architecture and industrial architecture. Education and mass- production—this building has mass-production written all over it—consort ill together. But no doubt internal operations must not be judged by external appearances.