This week in 1976, the University's architect Sir Basil Spence died. 

Spence is one of the most important figures in the University's history and many of his iconic campus buildings have won awards or hold listed building status. 

Here is an extract from the original article in the Bulletin published Tuesday 30 November 1976:

Sir Basil Spence

Sir Basil Spence, who died earlier this month, was the architect of the whole of the first stage of the University's building programme. 

Of the many buildings he designed, the University of Sussex was, along with Coventry Cathedral and the Rome Embassy, said to be among his personal favourites. 

It was at Sussex that with his partners he first employed the idiom based on repeated segmental arches which appeared frequently in his later work. His work here is considered by many to be among his best... 

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