Bryan Robert Avery MBE

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(2 January 1944 – 4 July 2017) was an

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, born in Wallingford, Berkshire. After his childhood years spent in Lymington in the

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, he studied architecture at

Leicester College of Art De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was ta ...

(now the

De Montfort University De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) is a public university in the city of Leicester, England. It was established in accordance with the Further and Higher Education Act in 1992 as a degree awarding body. The name De Montfort University was tak ...

), followed by an MA in the History and Theory of Architecture at

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under Professors

Joseph Rykwert Joseph Rykwert CBE (born 1926) is Paul Philippe Cret Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost architectural historians and critics of his generation. He has spent most of his working life in th ...

and

Dalibor Vesely Dalibor Vesely (19 June 1934 – 31 March 2015) was a Czech-born architectural historian and theorist who was influential through his teaching and writing in promoting the role of hermeneutics and phenomenology as part of the discourse of archit ...

. He established his own practice Avery Associates Architects in 1976. The practice has built a wide range of projects ranging from theatres and museums to offices and educational buildings, many of which have won respected awards. He published a book, ''Fragments of Wilderness City'' () in 2011 which describes his work and theory.

Awards

Avery was awarded the MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2015 for services to architecture. In 2010 Avery was awarded the Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for the Old Bailey office building. In 1999, Avery was awarded the

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's Millennium Products Award for the BFI IMAX cinema in Waterloo, London.

Projects (built)

Museum of the Moving Image The Museum of the Moving Image is a media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios (now Kaufman Astoria Studios), in the Astoria neighborhood in Queens, New York City. The museum originally opened in 1988 as the Amer ...

, London (1988) *Neathouse Place offices, London (1997) * Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London * BFI London IMAX, London (1999) * The London Transport Museum, London (2007) *10 Old Bailey offices, London (2009) *

Repton School Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, independent, day and boarding school in the English public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England. Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school whi ...

Theatre, Derbyshire (2011)

Projects (proposals)

*Oxford Street (1983) *Symbol for Southampton (2006) *Lymington residential, restaurant and gallery development (2011) *Wilderness City *

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hotel, Holborn (2012) *

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Crossrail (2013) * St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington (2014) *No. 1 Undershaft (site of Aviva Tower), City of London (2015)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Avery, Bryan 1944 births 2017 deaths Architects from Berkshire Modernist architects High-tech architecture Alumni of the University of Essex Alumni of De Montfort University