Cecil Clavering

Cecil Clavering

John Cecil Clavering OBE (17 April 19106 October 2001) was an English architect, best known for his work designing Odeon Cinemas as part of Harry Weedon's architectural practice in the 1930s, and his later work as the architect of the Public Record Office in Kew, London.

Life

Clavering was born and educated in Sunderland, the son of a schoolmaster. At the age of seventeen he was articled to a firm of architects in South Shields while studying architecture at Armstrong College, Newcastle, where he was introduced to the work of Le Corbusier, Willem Marinus Dudok, Erich Mendelsohn and Berthold Lubetkin. With a travelling scholarship he visited the major architecture centres of Italy, Austria and Germany in 1929 and 1930.cite news|title=Cecil Clavering|url=|work=The Times |publisher=Times Newspapers Ltd|page=19|date=2001-10-24|accessdate=]

Clavering's work at the time included the draughtsmanship or design of several cinemas in South Shields and Newcastle upon Tyne.cite news|first=Allen|last=Eyles|title=Obituary: J. Cecil Clavering|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/j-cecil-clavering-729627.html|work=The Independent|publisher=Independent News and Media Limited|page=6|date=2002-01-02|accessdate=2008-06-28] Clavering was unhappy with the classical detailing that was required for the cinemas, however - feeling that such ostentatious decoration was inappropriate in poor areas and also presented practical problems when reproduced in terracotta or faience - and concluded that "the answer appeared to be the new architecture advocated by Le Corbusier and the Germans".cite book|last=Eyles|first=Allen|title=Odeon Cinemas 1: Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation|year=2002|publisher=BFI Publishing|location=London|isbn=0851708137|pages=50|chapter=]

Clavering's opportunity came when Harry Weedon was commisioned to redesign the interior of a cinema being built in Warley for Oscar Deutsch, owner of the expanding Odeon Cinemas chain. Weedon's practice at the time numbered only six architects, none of whom except Weedon himself had any experience of cinema design, so Clavering was recruited to complete the job.

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