Philip Hepworth is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Philip Hepworth as British architect.
Philip Hepworth was born at Hampstead in 1890. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Architectural Association School of Architecture and Highgate School.
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.
His best-known building is Waltham Forest Town Hall. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
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.
Philip Hepworth died in 1963, aged 73. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Waltham Forest Town Hall
- Trained at Architectural Association School of Architecture and Highgate School
