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Sir Bernard Melchior Feilden
CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
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(11 September 1919 – 14 November 2008) was a
conservation architect Conservation is the preservation or efficient use of resources, or the conservation of various quantities under physical laws. Conservation may also refer to: Environment and natural resources * Nature conservation, the protection and managem ...
whose work encompassed cathedrals, the
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and the
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.


Biography

Feilden was born in Hampstead, London. He was educated at
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and
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School of Architecture,
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, completing his training at the Architectural Association after the second world war. His love of architecture was inherited from his grandfather,
Brightwen Binyon Brightwen Binyon, FRIBA, (30 May 1846 – 21 September 1905) was a British architect. Life He was born at Headley Grange, Victoria Park, Manchester, the son of Edward Binyon (1791–1855), a sugar refiner and tea dealer, and his wife Jane née ...
(1846-1905), an Ipswich architect and former pupil of
Alfred Waterhouse Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with the Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well. He is perhaps best known f ...
. He joined the practice of
Edward Boardman Edward Boardman (1833–1910) was a Norwich born architect. He succeeded John Brown as the most successful Norwich architect in the second half of the 19th century.Trinity United Reformed Church. He set up an architectural practice, Feilden+Mawson, with David Mawson in 1956, to which offices in Norwich, London and Cambridge were later added. In 1968 Feilden took over as consultant architect to the
University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...
, completing the work of his predecessor
Denys Lasdun Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, CH, CBE, RA (8 September 1914, Kensington, London – 11 January 2001, Fulham, London) was an eminent English architect, the son of Nathan Lasdun (1879–1920) and Julie ('' née'' Abrahams; 1884–1963). Probably his ...
, and creating an arena shaped square as a social space. His work in Britain encompassed
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,
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,
St Paul's Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in London and is the seat of the Bishop of London. The cathedral serves as the mother church of the Diocese of London. It is on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London and is a Grad ...
,
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and St. Giles' Cathedral,
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. Overseas he advised on Jerusalem's
Al-Aqsa mosque Al-Aqsa Mosque (, ), also known as Jami' Al-Aqsa () or as the Qibli Mosque ( ar, المصلى القبلي, translit=al-Muṣallā al-Qiblī, label=none), and also is a congregational mosque located in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is situate ...
, the Taj Mahal, the
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. He was elected Director of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (
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) in 1977. During his mandate he spearheaded safeguarding measures and disaster recovery of cultural heritage in the wake of the 1976 earthquakes in
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and
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(Italy), and the 1979 earthquake in Montenegro. His 1982 publication, ''Conservation of Historic Buildings'' is still an important reference book for architectural conservators. In 1986 Feilden was awarded the
Aga Khan Award for Architecture The Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) is an architectural prize established by Aga Khan IV in 1977. It aims to identify and reward architectural concepts that successfully address the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies in the fields ...
for his work on the Al-Aqsa mosque's dome. He was appointed OBE in 1969,
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in 1976 and was knighted as a
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in 1985. He died on 14 November 2008 at the age of 89.
National Life Stories National Life Stories is an independent charitable trust and limited company (registered as the ‘National Life Story Collection’) based within the British Library Oral History section, whose key focus and expertise is oral history fieldwork. S ...
conducted an oral history interview (C467/78) with Bernard Feilden in 2003-04 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.National Life Stories, 'Feilden, Bernard (1 of 43) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 2004
Retrieved 10 April 2018


References


External links


Feilden+Mawson Website
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