Justin Blanco White
Justin Blanco White | |
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| Born | Margaret Justin Blanco White 11 December 1911 Kensington,London, England |
| Died | 1 November 2001(aged 89) |
| Education | Architectural Association School of Architecture |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse | |
| Children | DusaandCaroline |
| Parent(s) | G. R. Blanco WhiteandAmber Reeves |
| Relatives | Maud Pember Reeves(grandmother) William Pember Reeves(grandfather) |
Margaret Justin Blanco WhiteOBEARIBA(11 December 1911 – 1 November 2001) was a Scottish architect.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Margaret Justin Blanco White was born at 30 Pembroke Square, Kensington, London, on 11 December 1911. Her father wasGeorge Rivers Blanco WhiteKC, and her mother was writerAmber Reeves.[2]Her brother wasThomas Blanco White,an intellectual property lawyer. She had an older half sibling Anna-Jane whose father wasH.G. Wells.Her maternal grandparents wereWilliam Pember ReevesandMaud Pember Reeves.[3]
She was educated atSt Paul’s Girls’ School,London between 1926 and 1929.[3]
Blanco White trained at theArchitectural Association School of Architecturefrom 1929, alongside students and close friendsJudith Ledeboer,Jessica Albery,andMary Crowley(later Medd), where they developed a commitment to housing reform and social concerns which impacted their later careers.[3][4][5][6]
Career[edit]
Justin Blanco White designed Shawms, Conduit Head Road, Cambridge in 1938.[7]The building was listed Grade II in 1996, and is built in the Modernist style, although using timber as a facing material.[8]
She worked on low cost housing, housing for the elderly, and hospitals when she was Superintending Architect of theScottish Office.[3]
Also attributed to Blanco White is 12 Landsdowne, Cambridge, built 1961-1968 in collaboration withDavid Croghan.Commissioned by Pat Merton in 1958, the building was demolished in 2003 according to the condition of sale to its new owners.[9]
In the1973 Birthday Honoursshe was appointed anOBEfor her work.[3]
Personal life[edit]
She married biologistConrad Hal Waddingtonin 1936. They had two daughters,Caroline(married nameHumphrey,subsequently Dame and Lady Rees, 1943–), an anthropologist, andDusa(married nameMcDuff,1945–), a mathematician.[3]
References[edit]
- ^Goold, David (30 September 2017)."Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report".scottisharchitects.org.uk.Retrieved30 December2022.
- ^Oxford dictionary of national biography(Online ed.). Oxford: British Academy, Oxford University Press.ISBN9780198614128.OCLC56568095.
- ^abcdefDarling, Elizabeth (11 July 2019),"White [married name Waddington], (Margaret) Justin Blanco (1911–2001), architect",Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,Oxford University Press,doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.112261,retrieved2 October2021
- ^Walker, Lynne (11 July 2019),"Albery, Jessica Mary (1908–1990), architect and town planner",Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,Oxford University Press,doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.112259,retrieved2 October2021
- ^"Medd [née Crowley], Mary Beaumont (1907–2005), architect and educationist".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/104202.Retrieved2 October2021.
- ^"Ledeboer, Judith Geertruid (1901–1990), architect and public servant".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66415.Retrieved2 October2021.
- ^Bradley, Simon (2015).The buildings of England, Cambridgeshire.Yale University Press. p. 343.
- ^"Celebrating Women Architects".www.english-heritage.org.uk.Retrieved8 March2015.
- ^"Cambridge 2000: Lansdowne Road: 12".www.cambridge2000.com.
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- 1911 births
- 2001 deaths
- Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture
- British women architects
- 20th-century Scottish architects
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at St Paul's Girls' School
- People from Kensington
- Reeves family