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Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown RA (20 May 1913 – 9 July 2009) was a British architect. He was educated at the Architecture Association where he was influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. After graduating he worked for architect Ernő Goldfinger and became his lifelong friend. He went on to set up his own successful practice. His involvement with the Modern Architecture Research Group (MARS) led to friendships with other modernist architects and opportunities for work including the 1951 Festival of Britain. He is probably best known for his design input into the Royal College of Art. ==Education and early work== Cadbury-Brown was born at Sarratt in Hertfordshire and boarded at Westminster School. From his childhood he was known as "Jim" after a family friend who had died in the war. Although there was family pressure for him to join the Navy, friends suggested architecture as he had shown an aptitude for maths and drawing. At the behest of the architect F. R. Yerbury he enrolled into the Architecture Association in 1930, aged 17. His first design projects were quite traditional, but after his introduction to the work of Le Corbusier by a friend his work became much more modern. The German magazine ''Moderne Bauformen'' exposed him to German modernism and the work of Walter Gropius. He respected the simplicity of the German designs and their grounding in realism rather than the intectualism of other modernists.〔Harwood (2006), p. 25〕 In 1934 as a fourth-year student Cadbury-Brown met Ursula and Ernő Goldfinger and was delighted by their furniture and collection of paintings. After graduating he spent a year working at Goldfinger's office and became an admirer of his work and lifelong friend.〔Cadbury-Brown (1988), p. 4〕 He learnt first-hand about the composition of materials and detailing〔 and assisted with the design of Goldfinger's Willow Road house.〔 His first solo project came in 1937 when he won a competition to design two travel centres for the Big Four British railway companies.〔 The buildings, one in Queensway and the other in the Strand (both now demolished), were praised by one of the competition assessors (Charles Holden) for their simplicity and practicality. On the back of this commission Cadbury-Brown set up his own office in Clarges Street, London. In 1938 he designed an exhibition stand at the Design and Industries Association at the British Industries Fair at Olympia. His friendship with Ralph Tubbs, whom he had met two years earlier upon joining the MARS Group, led to more work. They collaborated with another to design a bandstand in Weymouth for the MARS Group exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries.〔Powers (2006), p. 15〕 They went on to share offices and to design a display for the British Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair.〔Powers (2006), p. 16〕 Like many of the designers at the MARS Group exhibition, Cadbury-Brown would later be chosen by Hugh Casson to help design some of the pavilions at the Festival of Britain.〔 Also through this association with the group, he received work from Frederick Gibberd to design eighty houses in Mark Hall South as part of the Harlow New Town project.〔Harwood (2006), p. 26〕 In 1947 the sixth meeting of CIAM was hosted by MARS in Bridgwater, Somerset and Cadbury-Brown as secretary〔Powell (1998)〕 had a role in its organisation. MARS at that time was under the leadership of the architectural critic J M Richards who set the theme of the conference to architecture that appealed to the "Common Man".〔 This combination of architecture with sculpture, painting and populism was of great interest to Cadbury-Brown.〔 When war broke out he was already an officer with the Territorial Army, in which he served as a major with the Royal Artillery. During his service he noted that he it made all the way from Normandy to Germany without firing a shot.〔 Whilst working on designs for the Festival of Britain, Cadbury-Brown met his wife Elizabeth Romeyn Elwyn,〔Dunnett (2009), p. 10〕 who was born in the United States on 28 March 1922. As a young American architect in London she was advised that it was unlikely that she would find work, but through her friendship with a cousin of Helena Rubinstein she was introduced to Goldfinger, where she worked as an unpaid intern. At that time she was already married to an English constitutional lawyer, Bill Dale, but after an amicable divorce she married Cadbury-Brown in 1953. Elizabeth joined Cadbury-Brown's office where she was able to use her considerable detailing skills.〔Powers (2006), p. 20〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「H. T. Cadbury-Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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