Colin St John Wilson practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Colin St John Wilson as British architect (1922-2007).
Colin St John Wilson was born at Cheltenham in 1922. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Corpus Christi College and University College London.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect, writer and visual artist.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Knight Bachelor and Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
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.
Colin St John Wilson died in 2007, aged 85. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Knight Bachelor
- Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland
- Trained at Corpus Christi College and University College London
