Graham Winteringham
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[edit] Biography
Graham Winteringham was born in Louth, Lincolnshire and studied at Birmingham School of Architecture after serving in the Royal Navy for the duration of the Second World War.
[edit] Body of Work
Winteringham's main body of work can be divided into two parts: public buildings and heritage building restoration.
[edit] Public Buildings
The 300 seat Crescent Theatre building was designed by Winteringham and built on Cumberland Street in Birmingham in 1964. Featuring a revolving auditorium/stage, the design was quite revolutionary for its time.[1]
In 1972 Winteringham received a Royal Institute of British Architects Award for his design of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, one of the largest theatres of its type in Britain. Opened in 1971 by Princess Margaret, the 901 seat theatre forms the centerpiece of Centenary Square in central Birmingham.[2]
[edit] Heritage Building Restoration
Rosehill House, forming part of the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, has been documented in Emyr Thomas’s book “Coalbrookdale and the Darbys”. By 1979, when Winteringham first produced a detailed restoration report, the house had become uninhabitable. A year later a full restoration programme was undertaken and the building was finally officially opened to the public in 1985 by Sir Adrian Cadbury.[3].
[edit] References
- ^ Crescent Theatre History
- ^ Shaping the Seventies: 1970s Architecture in Birmingham
- ^ Ironbridge Quarterly, Summer 2005
