Margaret Justin Blanco White
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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
William Pember Reeves
William Pember Reeves (10 February 1857 – 16 May 1932) was a New Zealand politician, cricketer, historian and poet who promoted social reform.
Early life and career
Reeves's parents were William Reeves, who was a journalist and politician ...
and
Maud Pember Reeves
Maud Pember Reeves (24 December 1865 – 13 September 1953) (born Magdalene Stuart Robison) was a suffragist, socialist, feminist, writer and member of the Fabian Society. She spent most of her life in New Zealand and Britain.
Early life
Re ...
.
She was educated at
St Paul’s Girls’ School, London between 1926 and 1929.
Blanco White trained at the
Architectural Association School of Architecture
The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, commonly referred to as the AA, is the oldest Independent school (United Kingdom), independent school of architecture in the UK and one of the most prestigious and competitive in t ...
from 1929, alongside students and close friends
Judith Ledeboer
Judith Geertruid Ledeboer OBE (8 September 1901 – 24 December 1990) was a Dutch-born English architect. She was most active in London and Oxford, where she designed a variety of schools, university buildings and public housing projects.
Ear ...
,
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
Scottish Office
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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
1973 Birthday Honours
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she was appointed an OBE for her work.
Personal life
She married biologist
Conrad Hal Waddington
Conrad Hal Waddington (8 November 1905 – 26 September 1975) was a British developmental biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist and philosopher who laid the foundations for systems biology, epigenetics, and evolutionary devel ...
in 1936. They had two daughters,
Caroline
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People
* Caroline (given name), a feminine given name
* J. C. Caroline (born 1933), American college and National Football League player
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Places Antarctica
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(married name ''Humphrey'', subsequently Dame and Lady Rees, 1943–), an anthropologist, and
Dusa
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See also
* Dusa (disambiguation)
References
Penaeidae
Prehistoric crustacean genera
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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