- Patrick Nuttgens
Patrick John Nuttgens CBE(
March 2 ,1930 -March 15 ,2004 ) was an English architect and academic.Patrick Nuttgens was raised in
Piggotts Hill , nearHigh Wycombe ,Buckinghamshire , one of 12 children. His father was stained-glass artist Joseph Nuttgens. His mother died when he was 7.One day, when he was 12 and a student at
Ratcliffe College , he walked off the rugby pitch with a terrible pain in his back and, within a day, was paralyzed from the chest down withpoliomyelitis . He also suffered frommultiple sclerosis , which had left him in a wheelchair since 1985.He studied
architecture and painting atEdinburgh College of Art andEdinburgh University . He met Bridget Badenoch, an English Literature student at Edinburgh University; they married in 1954. In 1962, he became director of theInstitute of Advanced Architectural Studies , then professor of architectureUniversity of York . In 1969, he was appointed as the first director of Leeds Polytechnic (nowLeeds Metropolitan University ).He was awarded honorary doctorates by several universities, and was appointed CBE in 1983. His books include "The Story of Architecture", "The Art of Learning: a Personal Journey", "The Home Front: Housing the People (1840-1990)," and "The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Architecture".
Patrick and his wife Bridget had nine children, including
Giles Nuttgens , the award winning cinematographer.
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