Peter Stead (architect)
Peter Stead (1922–1999) was an English architect. He was awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects and given the Distinguished Flying Cross.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jan/05/guardianobituaries3|title = Peter Stead| newspaper=The Guardian |date = 5 January 2000}}
Background
Stead's family had been engaged in building for several generations. In the early 1950s he and his firm Law Stead were engaged in constructing the modernist house designed by Peter Womersley at Farnley Hey.{{cite news|url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/yorkshire-living/leisure-fashion/homes/design-of-the-times-1-6629814|title=Design of the times|last=Dale|first=Sharon|date=24 May 2014|work=Yorkshire Post|accessdate=7 December 2014}} Later in the decade he worked with Stephen Gilbert on experimental construction designs.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/stephen-gilbert-433409.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220526/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/stephen-gilbert-433409.html |archive-date=2022-05-26 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Stephen Gilbert|last=Westley|first=Hester|date=24 January 2007|work=The Independent|accessdate=7 December 2014}}
Stead was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in 1963-4.{{cite journal |author=AHAS Housing Advisory Services |jstor=23284600 |title=Bertha Turner, Peter Stead and John Turner |journal=Built Environment |date=1979 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=199–201 }}
During the 1970s Stead was a founder of the Centre for Alternatives in Urban Development and wrote a book on "Self-build housing groups and co-operatives: ideas in practice".{{cite web|title=Self-build housing groups and co-operatives : ideas in practice|publisher=OCLC WorldCat|accessdate=7 December 2014|url=http://experimental.worldcat.org/kindredworks/Kindred?sn=16547483}}
An archive of Stead's work is held by the Art Gallery in his home town, Huddersfield.{{cite web|url=http://www2.kirklees.gov.uk/news/onlinenews/newsdesk/fullstory.aspx?id=2063|title=Exhibition with Liadin Cooke - April 17 to June 19|date=5 March 2010|publisher=Kirklees Council|accessdate=7 December 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141207092859/http://www2.kirklees.gov.uk/news/onlinenews/newsdesk/fullstory.aspx?id=2063|archive-date=7 December 2014|url-status=dead}}
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Category:Architects from Huddersfield
Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)
Category:20th-century English architects