The Golden Lane Estate is sometimes referred to as the apprentice piece of the practice and is important for its planned landscape which 'straddles the boundary between the picturesque and the formal'.
[2] Charles Greenberg became an additional partner of the practice in 1960, although he chose not to add his name to the partnership for personal reasons.
(The Corporation is the wealthy municipal administration that has responsibility for the historic core of London, today its central financial district.)
The firm was strongly influenced by the work and ideas of Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier,[citation needed] with the essence of the innovative design being encapsulated by the project architect Leopold Rubinstein who trained with Le Corbusier in Paris.
[citation needed] It is a measure of the importance of the practice in postwar British architecture that many of their works are now Listed Buildings.