Eldred Evans OBE (16 June 1937 – 6 November 2022) was a British architect. She and her partner

David Shalev David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...

worked on more than 150 projects between 1964 and 2008, including

Tate St Ives Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Mu ...

Notable projects

* Newport High School, 1972 (demolished 2009) *

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, 1988 *

, 1993 * Quincentenary Library,

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, 1995

Personal

Evans was born in London to artists Merlyn Evans and Phyllis Sullivan and grew up in South Africa where the family moved when she was a year old. Evans returned to London to study architecture at the private

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and studied for a year in Yale with

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and

Richard Rogers Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British-Italian architect noted for his modernist and constructivist designs in high-tech architecture. He was the founder at Rogers Stirk Harbour + ...

. Evans met the Israeli architect David Shavlev in 1963 and lived and worked together from 1964. Shavlev dies in 2018, and were survived by their daughter Elantra Evans, who also became an architect.

References

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