Justin Blanco White

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Justin Blanco White
Born11 December 1911 Edit this on Wikidata
Kensington Edit this on Wikidata
Died1 November 2001 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 89)
ChildrenDusa McDuff Edit this on Wikidata

(Margaret) Justin Blanco White OBE ARIBA (11 December 1911 – 1 November 2001) was a Scottish architect.[1]

Life[]

Her father was George Rivers Blanco White KC, and her mother the writer Amber Reeves.[2] Her brother was Thomas Blanco White, an intellectual property lawyer. She married biologist Conrad Hal Waddington in 1936. They had two daughters, Caroline (married name Humphrey, subsequently Dame and Lady Rees, 1943–), an anthropologist, and Dusa (married name McDuff, 1945–), a mathematician.

Blanco White trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

She worked on low cost housing, housing for the elderly, and hospitals when she was Superintending Architect of the Scottish Office. In the 1973 Birthday Honours she was appointed an OBE for her work.

Works[]

Justin Blanco White designed Shawms, Conduit Head Road, Cambridge in 1938.[3] The building was listed Grade II in 1996, and is built in the Modernist style, although using timber as a facing material.[4]

Also attributed to Blanco White is 12 Landsdowne, Cambridge, built 1961-1968 in collaboration with . Commissioned by Pat Merton in 1958, the building was demolished in 2003 according to the condition of sale to its new owners.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Goold, David. "Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report (September 30, 2017, 3:34 am)". www.scottisharchitects.org.uk.
  2. ^ Oxford dictionary of national biography. British Academy., Oxford University Press. (Online ed.). Oxford. ISBN 9780198614128. OCLC 56568095.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Bradley, Simon (2015). The buildings of England, Cambridgeshire. Yale University Press. p. 343.
  4. ^ "Celebrating Women Architects". www.english-heritage.org.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Cambridge 2000: Lansdowne Road: 12". www.cambridge2000.com.
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