Neave Brown

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Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate, Camden , London 1968-1979

Neave Brown (born May 22, 1929 in Utica , United States ; † January 9, 2018 in London , England ) was a British architect and university lecturer , who mainly worked in housing construction and was at times attributed to brutalism . With its large terraced housing estates, it is considered one of the pioneers of committed social housing in England.

Life

Neave Brown was born in the USA in 1929 as the son of the British entrepreneur Percy Brown and his American wife Beatrice; his mother worked in publishing. After attending high school in Bronxville , New York, he went to England in 1945 to study at Marlborough College , which he graduated in 1948. After his military service, he studied from 1950 to 1956 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

After completing his training, he worked for three years in the Lyons, Israel and Ellis office, where James Stirling and James Gowan also began their careers. In 1965, Sydney Cook, director of the Camden Architects Department, brought him to his department, where he was responsible for large public housing projects until 1979. His best-known project in Alexandra Road, a complex with over 500 apartments, which has been listed as a Grade II * building since 1993 , resulted in significant budget and time overruns. There was subsequently a two-year public inquiry that marked the end of his professional career in England, even if he was largely exonerated by the result of the investigation. In addition, there was the sharp decline in public housing construction in the Thatcher era from 1979 onwards.

In the following years Brown worked as an exhibition architect, including for the Hayward Gallery . From 1986 to 1993 he shared an office with David Porter (* 1946) and then worked as an architect mainly in Italy and the Netherlands. He also taught at the University of Karlsruhe from 1996 to 1999 .

After his last major project, a housing estate in Eindhoven in 2003, Brown devoted himself to a childhood dream and began studying art at the City and Guilds of London Art School.

Neave Brown received the Royal Gold Medal 2018 from the Royal Institute of British Architects for his life's work .

Projects (selection)

Smalle Haven, Eindhoven 2002, in the background the Vesteda tower
  • 1963–1966: Five terrace houses, 22–32 Winscombe Street, Highgate Newtown, London ( protected as Grade II building )
  • 1971–1977: Dunboyne Road (formerly Fleet Road) housing estate, Camden, London (Grade II)
  • 1968–1979: Alexandra Road Housing Estate, Camden , London ( Grade II * )
  • 1991: Mozzo 2, 24 terraced houses, Bergamo
  • 1994: Zwolsestraat housing estate and 's-Gravenduyn high-rise apartment building, Harstenhoekweg, Scheveningen , The Hague (with David Porter)
  • 1993–2003: Medina housing estate , Smalle Haven development area , Eindhoven

See also

Web links

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literature

  • Mark Swenarton: Cook's Camden - The Making of Modern Housing. Lund Humphries, London 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for the architect of modernism Neave Brown. Floornature, January 18, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b Alexandra Road Estate at Historic England, the website of the English register of monuments.
  3. ↑ cf. David Porter: Remembering Neave Brown, a champion of smart public housing. The Architect's Newspaper, February 12, 2018.
  4. ↑ cf. Neave Brown's website: neavebrown.com.
  5. ↑ Royal Gold Medal 2018 recipient: Neave Brown. Royal Institute of British Architects , accessed January 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ 22-32 Winscombe Street near Historic England.
  7. ^ Dunboyne Road Estate at Historic England.
  8. ^ Anthony McIntyre: Modified Modern. In: The Architects' Journal. Vol. 193, No. 13 (March 27, 1991), pp. 38-43.
  9. ^ Neave Brown: My Kind of Town: Bergamo. In: Architecture Today. Vol. 13 (November 1990).
  10. ↑ s-Gravenduyn. Emporis , accessed February 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Neave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brown, Neave Sinclair
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Utica , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 2018
Place of death London , England