Trevor Dannatt 1920-2021

摘要

Trevor Dannatt, who has died aged 101, was a Royal Academician, teacher and prolific writer, and a major figure in the generation of celebrated architects who qualified soon after World War Two. He was closely involved in debate about the language of modernism and 'humanist' architecture, which informed his many thoughtful and sensitive buildings. Dannatt grew up in Blackheath, south London, and attended Colfe's school where his art teacher, Alfred Hallet, introduced him to the work of Le Corbusier. He studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic from 1938. 'Within a few weeks I realised what I wanted to do', he later wrote. 'I was "summoned by buildings".' In 1943 he joined Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, moving on in 1948 to his former tutor Peter Moro, who was associate architect with Sir Leslie Martin at the London County Council Architects' Department, in charge of developing the Royal Festival Hall. In 1952, a year after its completion, Dannatt left the LCC and set up in private practice. He worked informally 'in association with' Martin and Colin St John Wilson, and in 1970 formed Trevor Dannatt and Partners. In 1994, his former student David Johnson became a partner and the firm was renamed Dannatt Johnson.