Alan Harold Colquhoun (27 June 1921 – 13 December 2012) was an English architect, historian, critic and teacher.
Biography
Colquhoun was born in
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,
Buckinghamshire
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on 27 June 1921 and attended
Bradfield School
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. He went on to study architecture at the
Edinburgh College of Art
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and the
Architectural Association
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in London. In the Second World War Colquhoun was a captain in the Bengal Sappers and Miners, at Roorkee, India, where he first met future friend and architectural colleague Robert Maxwell. Colquhoun started his career as an architect at London County Council (LCC), and then in the practice of
Lyons Israel Ellis where he designed the Bridgnorth Girls' School in Bridgnorth Shropshire, now listed Grade II.
Work
In 1961 Colquhoun co-founded the architectural practice Miller and Colquhoun, remaining a partner until 1989. Highlight of their buildings are a noted refurbishment of
Whitechapel Art Gallery
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in London,
Forest Gate High School, the Chemistry Building of
Royal Holloway College
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in Surrey, and several houses and housing schemes in London.
Colquhoun taught at the
Architectural Association School of Architecture
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from 1957 to 1964 and at the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster) in the mid seventies. He was appointed as a professor at
Princeton University
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School of Architecture in 1981, becoming Professor Emeritus in 1991.
["Architecture critic and 'superb educator' Alan Colquhoun dies" ''Princeton University News'' 23 December 201]
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/ref> He also was a visiting professor at Cornell in 1969, and at Harvard University, Cambridge University, L'Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, and Trinity College, Dublin. He died in London on 13 December 2012.
Publications
*''Essays in Architectural Criticism: Modern Architecture and Historical Change'' (Oppositions Books, 1985) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 531 libraries It has been translated into French by Michèle Osborn, and also into Turkish, Italian, Catalan, Spanish and Finnish.
*''Colquhoun, Miller and Partners - Architects ''by Alan Colquhoun and John Miller (1988) New York:Rizzoli. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 188 libraries It has been translated into French by as
*''Modernity and the Classical Tradition: Architectural Essays, 1980-87'' MIT Press, 1991. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 448 libraries
*''Modern Architecture'' (Oxford History of Art, 2002) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1021 libraries It has been translated into French by Alan Colquhoun as ''L'architecture moderne.'' and into Spanish by Jorge Sainz as ''La arquitectura moderna : una historia desapasionada'' [Review by Daniel Sherer, in ''Art Journal'' 62(4), 2003.]
He also published works on the architects Michael Graves
Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect, designer, and educator, as well as principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group. He was a member of The New York Five and the Memphis Grou ...
and on Rafael Moneo
José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born 9 May 1937) is a Spanish architect. He won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996, the Royal Institute of British Architects, RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2003 and Venice Biennale, La Biennale's Golden Lion in 2 ...
and the sculptor Celia Scott
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.
References
External links
Alan Colquhoun papers, 1942-2010
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1921 births
2012 deaths
Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art
Architects from Buckinghamshire
English critics
20th-century English educators
English historians
Princeton University faculty
Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture