biography
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Spence, Sir Basil (Urwin)
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| (1907–76)
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Mumbai (Bombay), W India. He studied at Edinburgh and London, and gradually emerged as the leading post-war British architect, with his fresh approach to new university buildings, the pavilion for the Festival of Britain (1951), and most famously the new Coventry Cathedral (1951), which boldly merged new and traditional structural methods. He was professor of architecture at Leeds (1955–6) and at the Royal Academy (1961–8). He was knighted in 1960. |
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