Norman Engleback 1927 - 2015

摘要

Norman Engleback played a significant role as one of the highly-motivated young turks in the London County Council architects' department in the 1950s and 60s. He was responsible among much else for South Bank buildings including the Hayward Gallery complex, the 1960s extensions to the Royal Festival Hall and the National Film Theatre. His first job in 1943 was in the drawing office at King's Cross for the railway company LNER and he was involved for four years in rebuilding bombed railway structures. There he developed a clear, careful, but rapid draughting technique. His first completed building was a signal box near Mile End. Meanwhile he studied architecture in evening classes at the Northern Polytechnic.