British architect Michael Wilford, who was finest identified for his shiny and vibrant postmodern buildings created along with James Stirling, has handed away on the age of 84.
The information of his passing on Friday tenth March was confirmed right now in an electronic mail to Dezeen from his daughter, Karenna Wilford.
Wilford was born in East Sussex in 1938. He started his architectural profession finding out on the Northern Polytechnic Faculty of Structure earlier than turning into a technician at Stirling’s studio in 1960.
He went on to finish his research on the Regent Road Polytechnic Planning Faculty in London in 1967, earlier than restarting his collaboration with Stirling and founding the Stirling/Wilford partnership in 1971.
After the demise of Stirling in 1992, the follow was renamed Michael Wilford & Companions. He left in 2000, happening to ascertain each Michael Wilford Architects in London and Wilford Schupp Architects in Stuttgart in 2001.
The architect is finest identified for his long-term collaboration with Stirling and their landmark initiatives resembling No 1 Poultry, an iconic pink and yellow limestone-clad constructing that was Grade II* listed in 2016 following a preservation marketing campaign.
Collectively, the duo additionally created the Tate Liverpool – which concerned a conversion of a Grade I-listed Nineteenth-century warehouse into an artwork gallery.
Wilford was additionally behind initiatives together with The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, accomplished in 1984, the WZB Berlin Social Science Middle, accomplished in 1987, in addition to the Lowry Centre in Salford, accomplished in 2000.
He designed the British Embassy in Berlin in 2000 and the State Music Faculty in Stuttgart in 1996, which was awarded the Stirling Prize in 1997.
In 2001, Wilford obtained a CBE – the highest-ranking Order of the British Empire award.
Alongside practising as an architect, Wilford was a critic, exterior examiner and visiting professor at a number of universities, together with Yale College, Harvard College, the Architectural Affiliation and the College of Liverpool Faculty of Structure.
“His unstinting religion in humanity, and his life-long curiosity about all the things inventive that the human thoughts might supply, made him consider that structure retained the eternal risk of manufacturing culturally impressed and socially related environments and settings,” mentioned the Liverpool Faculty of Structure in an announcement.
Wilford is survived by his spouse Angela (pictured above) and 5 youngsters, Karenna, Carl, Paul, Jane and Anna.
He’s the most recent of numerous main architects who’ve just lately handed away. Earlier this month, skyscraper architect Gene Kohn of KPF died aged 92 and Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly handed away aged 78.
