Quinlan Terry
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Quinlan Terry (born 24 July, 1937 in Hampstead) is a notable English architect. He was educated at Bryanston School and the Architectural Association.
He works principally in a classical retrospective Palladian style. He holds the Philippe Rothier European Prize for the Reconstruction of the City of Archives d'Architecture Moderne (1982). His design for the library at Downing College, Cambridge won the Building of the Year Award in 1994. In 2003 Terry won the Best Modern Classical House 2003, awarded by the British Georgian Group. In 2005 Terry won the 3rd Annual Driehaus Prize the most prestigious award for outstanding Classical and Traditional architects.
One of his best known works is Brentwood Cathedral in Essex. This rebuilding of an earlier Roman Catholic church utilises the Italian Renaissance style, mixed with the early and short-lived English Baroque style. It has a portico based on the south portico of St Paul's cathedral designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Unusually, all five classical orders of architecture were used in the design.
His works in the USA include the Abercrombie Residence. This classical mansion is based on Marble Hill House, Twickenham, England. Complete with a piano nobile approached by an external staircase, it has a pediment supported by Corinthian columns. The house is constructed of Kasota limestone, with Indiana limestone dressings.
In Gloucestershire, he designed Waverton House, where he used the style made popular by Matthew Brettingham in the 18th century, featuring a central staircase lit from above, surrounded by rooms on both floors.
In 1989, he employed the Gothic style to create a mansion in London's Regent's Park. Ironically, the plan was based on Palladio's Villa Saraceno, which it was felt would convert to the Gothic style.
In the mid-1990s, he designed the restoration of St Helen's (London) after the church building was severely damaged in two IRA bombings. He reworked its previous Tractarian-inspired design into an open Georgian plan informed by the precepts of Reformation theology.
Terry's domestic work, while retrospective, always employs the finest materials: where possible, indigenous stone is used, and the most modern and efficient methods of construction are favoured.
