Bryan Robert Avery MBE

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(2 January 1944 – 4 July 2017) was an English

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, born in Wallingford,

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. After his childhood years spent in Lymington in the

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, he studied architecture at Leicester College of Art (now the

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

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under Professors Joseph Rykwert and

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. 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

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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 of Queens in New York City. The museum originally opened in 1988 as the Am ...

, 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, private, boarding and day school in the public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England. Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school which was th ...

Theatre, Derbyshire (2011)

Projects (proposals)

*Oxford Street (1983) *Symbol for Southampton (2006) *Lymington residential, restaurant and gallery development (2011) *Wilderness City * CitizenM 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 from the United Kingdom High-tech architecture Alumni of the University of Essex Alumni of De Montfort University Members_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire