Sir Evan Owen Williams

Sir Evan Owen Williams
b. London, 1890;
d. London, 1969.
Sir Evan Owen Williams, a famous British architect / structural engineer who produced outstanding reinforced concrete buildings during the inter-war period. He was educated at Tottenham Grammar School and studied engineering at London University. From 1905-11 he was articled to the Electrical Tramways Co., London and in 1912 [...]

Peter & Alison Smithson

Peter & Alison Smithson
Peter Smithson, b. Stockton-on-Tees, 1923;
Alison Smithson, b. Sheffield, 1928.
Peter & Alison Smithson - British famous architects whose polemical ideas have made as big an impact as their buildings. Their work is often associated with an ill-defined and unwarranted denigrator term: Brutalism. Both studied at the University of Durham and worked for a [...]