<p>'There is the puzzle which it is the purpose of this book to try to elucidate. On the one hand, we have the alleged deficiencies of suburban taste; on the other we have the appeal it holds for ninety out of a hundred Englishmen, an appeal which cannot be explained away as some strange instance of mass aberration...'<br><br><br>Sir James Richards (1907-1992), editor of the Architectural Review for 34 years, was arguably the leading ad...