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Fecha de fin: 01/01/1981
Relevancia: 30
Same As: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Dowson
Descripción: RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Imagen: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Metallurgy-and-Materials-building%2C-Birmingham-University---Philip-Dowson.jpg/300px-Metallurgy-and-Materials-building%2C-Birmingham-University---Philip-Dowson.jpg
Fecha de inicio: 01/01/1981
Descripción larga: Sir Philip Henry Manning Dowson (16 August 1924 – 22 August 2014) was a leading British architect. He served as President of the Royal Academy from 1993 to 1999.
Identificador: Q4167330
Nombre: Philip Dowson
Descripción larga de wikipedia : Sir Philip Henry Manning Dowson (16 August 1924 – 22 August 2014) was a leading British architect. He served as President of the Royal Academy from 1993 to 1999.<br /><br /><br />== Early life ==<br />Philip Dowson was born in South Africa. Having moved to England, he was educated at Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk, from 1938 to 1942 and then went up to University College, Oxford (where he later designed four student accommodation blocks for Stavertonia in North Oxford), to read Mathematics. This was during the Second World War. After one year in Oxford, he joined the Royal Navy and remained in the service until 1947.<br />On leaving the Navy, Dowson proceeded to Clare College, Cambridge, to study Art from 1947 to 1950, and then to the Architectural Association School in London.<br /><br /><br />== Career ==<br />From 1953, Dowson worked with the engineer Sir Ove Arup, becoming a founding partner in Arup Associates in 1963 and rising to be the firm's senior partner and Chief Architect in 1969.<br />Dowson contributed to a large number of major projects, including new buildings for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He died on 22 August 2014, aged 90.National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/71) with Dowson in 2002 for its Architects' Lives collection, held by the British Library.<br /><br /><br />== Honours ==<br />1969 — Commander of the Order of the British Empire<br />1980 — Knighthood<br />1981 — Royal Academician<br />1981 — Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects<br />1993 — President of the Royal Academy of ArtsDowson also served as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.<br /><br /><br />== References ==
Nombre alternativo: Phillip Dowson Sir Philip Dowson Sir Philip Manning Dowson
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