Houses for Visiting Mathematicians

{{Short description|Academic accommodation in Coventry, England}}

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| caption = One of the houses, located on Warwick University's Gibbet Hill campus

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| location = Warwick University, Gibbet Hill Campus

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| architect = Bill Howell

| architecture_firm = Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis

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| awards = RIBA Architecture Award (1970)

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The Houses for Visiting Mathematicians (also known as the Mathematics Research Centre houses) are a set of five houses and two flats,{{cite news |url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/intnews2/maths_houses_listed/ |title=Maths Houses' Listed Status |date=27 November 2007 |work=CommUnicate |publisher=University of Warwick |access-date=21 October 2012}} built for academics attending mathematical conferences at the University of Warwick.

The buildings are Grade II* listed{{NHLE|num=1392017 |desc=Houses for Visiting Mathematicians, University of Warwick|accessdate=21 October 2012}} and were built between 1968 and 1969 to the design of architect Bill Howell and were opened in June of that year by then Vice-Chancellor Jack Butterworth, Sir Christopher Zeeman and Bill Howell. Their construction was supported by a £50,000 grant from the Nuffield Foundation.{{cite web |url=http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/general/institute/histories-small.pdf |title=The Histories of Mathematics & Statistics at Warwick |last1=Zeeman |first1=Christopher |last2=Harrison |first2=Jeff |last3=Smith |first3=Jill |year=2004 |publisher=Warwick Mathematics Institute |access-date=21 October 2012}}

In 1970, they received the RIBA Architecture Award.

File:MRC Houses blackboard.jpg

The houses comprise a combined living room/kitchen and large study bedroom on the ground floor, and smaller study bedrooms and a bathroom on the first floor. The curved walls of the downstairs study are lined with blackboards, built to the specification that they should be high enough for the mathematician to work but also "low enough for small children to use the bottom bit."{{cite web |url=http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/news/blogs/mead_gallery/emma-mcnallys-drawings-in-the-maths-houses/ |title=Emma McNally's drawings in the Maths Houses |last=Shalgosky |first=Sarah |date=10 December 2012 |publisher=Warwick Arts Centre |access-date=11 December 2012 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130724184042/http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/news/blogs/mead_gallery/emma-mcnallys-drawings-in-the-maths-houses/ |archive-date=24 July 2013 |df=dmy-all }}