Social Structures: Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s Halls of Residence at the University of Hull examines the processes of commissioning, financing, designing and constructing a significant work of university architecture in post-war Britain. Robert Proctor’s case study of the Lawns, built between 1961 and 1968, shows the impact on architectural form of university and government concepts of student housing and of the economic constraints of university building in the welfare state. In its adaptation of traditional building methods, Gillespie, Kidd & Coia’s architecture is so closely and logically related to its social and economic context that the Lawns can be seen as transparent to its historical situation. Proctor argues that an interpretation of the building according to the architectural theories of Team 10 and the New Brutalism can help to explain this building’s architectural expression of its social conditions.