Editing Basil Spence (section)

==Assessment==

[[File:Castro Pretorio - Osborne House ambasciata GB s Sede 051218-01.JPG|thumb|The [[Embassy of the United Kingdom, Rome]]]]

In 2004, following the bequest of Spence's drawings and office papers, the Sir Basil Spence Archive project was begun by the RCAHMS (now part of HES). A centennial exhibition Basil Spence Back to the Future was organised in Edinburgh, Coventry and London in 2007-8. In 2006, he was the subject of a [[BBC Scotland]] documentary, ''Rebuilding Basil Spence'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuartbrown.info/#ArtworksScotland_Spence|title=Researcher – Artworks Scotland, BBC Scotland, 2006: "Rebuilding Basil Spence". Retrieved: 10 October 2021}}</ref> which revised his place in 20th-century British architecture and asked why he had been for so long overlooked. In 2012, the book ''Basil Spence Buildings and Projects'' was published by the RIBA as the culmination of the RCAHMS archive project and the work of the AHRC research project led by Louise Campbell of [[University of Warwick|Warwick University]].

In 1993 Spence's [[Hutchesontown C]] complex was listed by the international conservation organisation [[DoCoMoMo]] as one of Scotland's [[DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments|sixty key monuments]] of the [[post-war]] years, in the same year as it was demolished.

In August 2010, [[English Heritage]] recommended that the Spence-designed [[Sydenham School]] be given [[Grade II listed]] status: the building was due to be demolished to make way for a new building. However the government's decision was that the school was not of sufficient merit to warrant listing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/8685729.SYDENHAM__Head_welcomes_school_s_English_Heritage_listing_failure/|title=SYDENHAM: Head welcomes school's English Heritage listing failure|website=News Shopper|date=24 November 2010 }}</ref>