Clough Williams-Ellis is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Clough Williams-Ellis as English-born Welsh architect (1883-1978).
Clough Williams-Ellis was born at Gayton in 1883. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Oundle School and Trinity College.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and military officer.
Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Military Cross, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Knight Bachelor.
That the work was built in United Kingdom shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Clough Williams-Ellis died in 1978, aged 95. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Military Cross
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Knight Bachelor
- Trained at Oundle School and Trinity College
