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Gordon Brewer talks to writer Own Hatherley about the huge programme of post-war council house building which began in 1951 and the shifting attitude in Britain towards modernist building design. Multi-storey tower blocks are now often seen as monstrosities, and many council houses were taken out of public ownership after Margaret Thatcher allowed tenants to buy them and the modernist movement which inspired much architecture in the 1950s and 1960s is often treated derisively. But is that fair? Image © Jochen Braun