Bill Howell (architect)
William Gough Howell DFC ARA (1922 – 29 November 1974) was a British architect, the leading force in the firm of , and chair of the architecture department at Cambridge University from 1973 until his death the following year in a road accident.[1]
He was the son of Charles Gough Howell, Attorney-General of Singapore from 1936 to 1942, and his Australian wife, Sidney Gretchen Innes-Noad.[2] He was educated at Marlborough College, before joining the Royal Air Force in 1939. After the war, he studied architecture at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[2]
Howell designed the Houses for Visiting Mathematicians (also known as the Mathematics Research Centre houses), a set of five houses and two flats, built for academics attending mathematical conferences at the University of Warwick, built 1968 to 1969. They are now Grade II* listed buildings.
Howell died in a car accident on 29 November 1974, near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.[2]
In 1951, Howell married fellow architect Gillian Margaret "Jill" Howell, nee Sarson (1927–2000).[2]
References[]
- ^ "A History of the Architecture Department — Department of Architecture". arct.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Howell, William Gough [Bill] (1922–1974)". ODNB. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
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