Basil Spence Architect

Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.

Personal facts

Basil Spence
Birth dateAugust 13, 1907
Birth place
Mumbai
Date of deathNovember 19, 1976
Place of death
Yaxley Suffolk

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Architect

Significant building
Hyde Park Barracks London
Coventry Cathedral
Beehive (New Zealand)

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Basil Spence on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/284783/details/greater+london+southwark+camberwell+and+dulwich+dartmouth+road+sydenham+school
  2. http://claytonhirst.wordpress.com/trawsfynydd
  3. http://living.scotsman.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=2808791
  4. http://waleshome.org/2009/10/save-this-beautiful-ruin
  5. http://www.basilspence.org.uk
  6. http://www.codexgeo.co.uk/dsa/architect_full.php?id=M003352
  7. http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/exhibition_frame.asp?id=169
  8. http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/News.cfm?id=28246
  9. http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/basil-spence-archive-exclusive/1801
  10. http://www1.aston.ac.uk/about/news/releases/2010/november/library-development