| Biography | The London County Council School of Building opened in February 1904 as a specialist training college for building workers in Camberwell and Lambeth and gained a reputation as a centre of excellence in town planning, building technology, estate management and building architecture. It was renamed the Brixton School of Building in 1943 and formed part of the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1970, with five of its six departments forming the Faculty of Construction, Technology and Design. The sixth department formed part of the Vauxhall College of Further Education. |