Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon were one of the most important modernist architectural firms in post-war England.

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Formation

The practice was founded in 1952 by Geoffry Powell (1920-1999), Peter (always known as Joe) Chamberlin (1919-1978) and Christoph Bon (1921-1999), following Powell's win in the 1951 architectural competition for the Golden Lane Estate. The three founding partners taught at Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University School of Architecture) when they each entered the design competition with the agreement that should any of them win they would form a partnership with the other two to deliver the project. The Golden Lane Estate is sometimes referred to as the "apprentice piece" of the Practice.

Charles Greenberg became an additional partner of the practice in 1960, although he chose not to add his name to the partnership for personal reasons. He was the only other partner working with CP&B on Barbican. Frank Woods also became an additional partner, and in 1985 the firm name became Chamberlin Powell Bon & Woods.[1]

Main work

Following completion of the Golden Lane Estate they won the commission to design and execute the adjacent Barbican development, also for the Corporation of the City of London, the wealthy municipal administration that has responsibility for the historic core of London, today the central business district.

The firm was strongly influenced by the work and ideas of Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. Other works included schools in London, New Hall, Cambridge (a new college at Cambridge University) and major expansion of the campus at University of Leeds.

It is a measure of the importance of the practice in post-war British architecture that many of their works are now Listed Buildings.

List of works

  • Golden Lane Estate, Aldersgate, London EC1 1952-1961 (Listed GII & G II*)
  • Barbican Estate, London EC2 (Listed G II)
  • Trinity (now Geoffrey Chaucer) School, Theobald Road, London (Listed II* but under threat of demolition by Southwark borough council in 2007)
  • Development at 355 Kings Road for ILEA
  • Bousfield Primary School, The Boltons, Earls Court, London SW5 1954–56[2] (Listed GII)
  • University of Leeds, campus expansion masterplan and many individual buildings (1963-75), the largest collection of buildings by the firm after the Barbican. (Listed G II[3] & G II*[4])
  • University of Birmingham (1966)
  • New Hall, Cambridge. Cambridge University a new college for an ancient university (1962-64, Listed G II*)
  • 30a Hendon Avenue, London N3, the only private house designed by the practice (Listed G II)
  • Of the unrealised works the Zoology Tower for Oxford University, a highly figured 300 ft (91 m) point block which would have been visible all over Oxford.
  • Of the demolished buildings the most significant is a celebrated Seed Factory, Witham, Essex.

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