Such as more Modernist designer, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter and Alison Smithson, Lasdun was much influenced by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but there was a easier, additional definitive influence, as well, from either the likes of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Prior to & fallowing Second World War service in the army, he worked for a while using Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton practice, after which he install his have London-depending practice.

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Lasdun’s projects involved: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (1959-60) Royal College of Physicians, London (1960-64) student housing at a University of East Anglia, Norwich (1962-68) Keeling House (a Grade II* listed building) and Bradley House, Bethnal Green, east London Institute of Education, and a library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Bloomsbury, London Royal National Theatre, London (1967-76) first phase of the European Investment Bank, Luxembourg (1974-80)