The Tecton Group was a radical architectural group co-founded by Berthold Lubetkin, Francis Skinner, Denys Lasdun, Godfrey Samuel, and Lindsay Drake in 1932 and disbanded in approximately 1950. Tecton has been traditionally translated into English as "carpenter", but is a rather general word that at the time could cover makers of objects in various materials, and builders, from tent makers to stonemasons. The group was one of the leaders in bringing continental modernism to Britain.