Sir Arnold Joseph Philip Powell (15 March 1921 – 5 May 2003 in London), usually known as Philip Powell, was a ground-breaking English post-war architect.
He was educated at Epsom College and then the Architectural Association.
He was the father of "Humane modernism", and is famous for designing the Chichester Festival Theatre. He also designed the Skylon, the Churchill Gardens apartment complex in Pimlico and the main House at Chichester.
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Sir Arnold Joseph Philip Powell (15 March 1921 – 5 May 2003 in London), usually known as Philip Powell, was a ground-breaking English post-war architect.
He was educated at Epsom College and then the Architectural Association.
He was the father of "Humane modernism", and is famous for designing the Chichester Festival Theatre. He also designed the Skylon, the Churchill Gardens apartment complex in Pimlico and the main House at Chichester.
He founded a practice with Hidalgo Moya, Powell & Moya Architect Practice. They won a competition to build Churchill Gardens, Pimlico, a complex that houses 5,000 people in 1,800 flats. They were aged 24 and 23 respectively.
They designed the Skylon Installation at the 1951 Festival of Britain, which sought to instil a sense of positive feeling at a time of postwar depression.
Powell designed a Putney school, a number of Oxford and Cambridge University buildings including Wolfson College, Oxford and at Christ Church, the courtyard at the Museum of...
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