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That architects are quasi-engineers and vice versa is nowhere better demonstrated than in this monograph. Philip Powell and Hidalgo (Jacko) Moya were inventive with structures throughout their careers. The two men, fellow students at the Architectural Association, won an international competition and set up practice in 1946 to build Churchill Gardens, the now famous post-war housing scheme in Pimlico. The brief was for high-density housing of 200 persons per acre. Their skill was in designing an uncluttered, relaxed environment while packing the maximum accommodation within the site in blocks of flats with lower maisonettes. The accumulator tower, storing and using...