Malcolm Quantrill
| Malcolm Quantrill | |
|---|---|
| Born |
31 May 1931 Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Died | 22 September 2009 (aged 78) College Station, Texas, US |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool, University of Pennsylvania and Wroclaw Technical University |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Knight of the Order of the Lion of Finland |
| Practice | Architect, academic and architecture theorist |
Malcolm Quantrill (25 May 1931 – 22 September 2009) was a British architect, academic and architecture theorist. His best known books are The Environmental Memory – Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas (1986) and Finnish Architecture and the Modernist Tradition (1998). He was a specialist in the history of the modern architecture of Finland. He was the first person to write critical monographs in any language on three individual Finnish modernist architects, Alvar Aalto – Alvar Aalto: A Critical Study (1983) – Reima Pietilä – Reima Pietilä: Architecture, Context, Modernism (1985) – and Juha Leiviskä – Juha Leiviska and the Continuity of Finnish Modern Architecture (2001). Already during his lifetime, he acquired a reputation for thorough and innovative scholarship in architecture, bringing a questioning attitude to well-known figures and canonical architectural history.
Quantrill was born on 25 May 1931, in Norwich, the only child of Arthur William Quantrill, a company director, and Alice May Quantrill (née Newstead). He attended school at the City of Norwich School. He graduated with a BA in architecture from the University of Liverpool in 1954. He was a Fulbright Scholar and Albert Kahn Memorial Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, US, earning a Master's degree in 1955. On his return to the UK, he worked in architects' offices in London, qualifying as an architect and becoming a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1961. He received a DSc in Urbanism from Wroclaw Technical University, Poland, in 1975.
Quantrill taught at the schools of architecture at the University of Jordan, the former University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST), University College, London, and the University of Liverpool before becoming director of the Architectural Association school of architecture in London from 1967 to 1969. From 1973 to 1980 he was Head of Environmental Design at the Polytechnic of North London. He was appointed Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University in 1984. He was promoted to Distinguished Professor at the same university in 1986, and upon retirement in 2007 was named Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
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