sentences:  In 1956, Sir Basil Spence was commissioned to prepare a masterplan of the campus for the foreseeable future.This included incorporating the University Road, that split the campus in two and the quarry of Sir Sidney Kimber's brickyard that itself was split by a stream.Unable to remove the road and the private houses along it, Spence designed many of the buildings facing away from it, using contemporary designs working in concrete, glass and mosaic.