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Architect Will Alsop Dies
British Architect Will Alsop Dies Aged 70
Will Alsop OBE, one of Britain’s most prominent architects and a prolific painter, was born in Northampton, central England.
He studied architecture in London at the Architectural Association (AA), where he came runner-up in the competition for the Pompidou Centre in Paris, aged 23.

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After graduating in 1973, he worked briefly for Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, who had been instrumental in introducing modernism to Britain in the 1930s,
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He then joined Cedric Price for four years, an architect whose radical visions, always laced with humour, proved to be of lasting influence.
Internationally renowned architect, artist and lecturer Will Alsop approached all his projects and ventures with the unwavering belief that individual and creative design can change and improve lives.
He belonged to a generation of modern British architects who follow no single school of theory. His guiding principle was the notion that joy must be allowed to pervade every sector of his work.
Following parallel research paths as an artist, product designer, film-maker and writer, Alsop’s architecture developed through an inseparable dialogue with sculpture, painting and drawi...