John Winter (architect)
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|birth_date= 16 May 1930
|birth_place= Norwich
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| death_place = Cambridge
| occupation = Architect
|practice=John Winter & Associates
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John Winter (16 May 1930 – 12 November 2012) was a British architect born in Norwich who lived and worked in London. He was well known for his modernist designs, and was reported to have never have had a planning application refused.{{cite web|title=Architects: We've got designs on your home|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3360510/Architects-Weve-got-designs-on-your-home.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027090054/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3360510/Architects-Weve-got-designs-on-your-home.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 October 2010|work=Daily Telegraph|accessdate=14 November 2012|date=23 February 2008}}
Winter had two sons, Timothy{{cite web|title=Timothy Winter: Britain's most influential Muslim - and it was all down to a peach|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/timothy-winter-britains-most-influential-muslim--and-it-was-all-down-to-a-peach-2057400.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/timothy-winter-britains-most-influential-muslim--and-it-was-all-down-to-a-peach-2057400.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|accessdate=14 November 2012|date=20 August 2010}} (now Abdul-Hakim Murad), Henry, the football correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, and a daughter, Martha, an artist.
Career
Winter started his architectural career in Norwich where he completed a pupillage under an Arts and Crafts architect. From 1950 to 1953 he studied at the Architectural Association{{cite web|title=OBITUARIES John Winter|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9699534/John-Winter.html|website=Daily Telegraph|accessdate=7 April 2015|date=23 November 2012}} in London and subsequently undertook national service with the Royal Engineers and learned to weld. He returned to education in the U.S. where he studied at Yale and then moved to San Francisco, where he worked for both Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Charles Eames.{{cite web|title=John Winter (1930-2012)|url=http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/PUBLIC/NEWSNOTICES/schoolNews.php?item=704|work=Architectural Association|accessdate=14 November 2012|date=12 November 2012}} Winter eventually returned to great England and joined the office of Ernő Goldfinger, before setting up his own private practice John Winter & Associates.
Winter wrote for various publications throughout his career including the Daily Telegraph and the Architectural Review, and in 1970 published Industrial Architecture: A Survey of Factory Buildings.{{cite book|last=Winter|first=[by] John|title=Industrial architecture: a survey of factory building|year=1970|publisher=Studio Vista|location=London|isbn=978-0289797730}}
The National Portrait Gallery has two colour print portraits of Winter in its collection.{{cite web|title=John Winter|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp72506/john-winter|work=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=14 November 2012}}
Winter retained close links with the Architectural Association during his career, teaching from 1960 to 1964 with students including Jeremy Dixon, Edward Jones and Nicholas Grimshaw, and went on to become a member of Council, Honorary Secretary and as a trustee of the AA Foundation.
Built projects
- 21 Upton Close, Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7PD (1956)
- 2 Regal Lane, London NW1 7TH (1961)
- 10-11 Regal Lane, London NW1 7TH (1961–63)
- Days & Son Offices, Hounslow, London
- 35 Ornan Road, Hampstead, London (1971)
- 12 Alma Road, Wandsworth, London SW18 1AB (1973)
- Morley College, Lambeth, London SE1 7HT (1973–5; 1979–82)
- Virginia Water house, Wentworth (1966)
- 85 Mansell Street, London E1 8AN (1991)
- Cor-ten house, 81 Swain's Lane, Highgate (1969; Grade II listed){{cite web|url=http://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/3034|title=AJBL - John Winter House|work=Buildings Library|publisher=Architects' Journal|accessdate=9 December 2015}}
- Woughton Village housing, Milton Keynes (1974)
- 85 Swain's Lane house, Highgate (1982, demolished 2008){{cite web|title=Veteran Modernist John Winter dies aged 82|url=http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/8638566.article|work=Architects' Journal|accessdate=14 November 2012|date=13 November 2012}}
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Category:20th-century English architects
Category:Modernist architects from England
Category:Architects from Norfolk
Category:Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture