Margaret Justin Blanco White OBE

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(11 December 1911 – 1 November 2001) was a Scottish architect.

Early life and education

Margaret Justin Blanco White was born at 30 Pembroke Square, Kensington, London, on 11 December 1911. Her father was George Rivers Blanco White KC, and her mother was writer

Amber Reeves Amber Blanco White (' Reeves; 1 July 1887 – 26 December 1981) was a New Zealand-born British feminist writer and scholar. Early life Reeves was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, the eldest of three children of Fabian feminist Maud Pember Re ...

. Her brother was Thomas Blanco White, an intellectual property lawyer. She had an older half sibling Anna-Jane whose father was H.G. Wells. Her maternal grandparent were

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and

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. She was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School, London between 1926 and 1929. Blanco White trained at the

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from 1929, alongside students and close friends

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, Jessica Albery, and Mary Crowley (later Medd), where they developed a commitment to housing reform and social concerns which impacted their later careers.

Career

Justin Blanco White designed Shawms, Conduit Head Road, Cambridge in 1938. The building was listed Grade II in 1996, and is built in the Modernist style, although using timber as a facing material. She worked on low cost housing, housing for the elderly, and hospitals when she was Superintending Architect of the

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. Also attributed to Blanco White is 12 Landsdowne, Cambridge, built 1961-1968 in collaboration with David Croghan. Commissioned by Pat Merton in 1958, the building was demolished in 2003 according to the condition of sale to its new owners. In the

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she was appointed an OBE for her work.

Personal life

She married biologist

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in 1936. They had two daughters,

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(married name ''Humphrey'', subsequently Dame and Lady Rees, 1943–), an anthropologist, and

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(married name ''McDuff'', 1945–), a mathematician.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blanco White, Justin 1911 births 2001 deaths Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture British women architects 20th-century Scottish architects Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at St Paul's Girls' School People from Kensington Reeves family