Letter: Design for life

While I wholeheartedly support the aims of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland (Letters, 20 May), I despair of Mr Leitch and his ilk throughout the art world who pontificate their supposed superiority over the poor, disadvantaged lay populace.

What a tragedy that we are incapable of valuing the merits of such worthy testaments to architecture of the 1960s and 1970s as the Fountainbridge Telephone Exchange, the West Princes Street shelters and the George Square Theatre.

He accuses your leading article of being ill informed. If, from what he clearly perceives as his elevated, informed position applauding Edinburgh's "fine architectural palimpsest" he actually believes this to be the case, I pity him and worry about other treasures he hopes to preserve.

JC Stevenson

South Gray Street

Edinburgh