Quinlan Terry

Architect.

Parents friends with modernists Walter Gropius and Barbara Hepworth
During studies at the Architecture Association School (1955-61), he lost illusions about modernism and began collaborating with the then most prominent British traditionalist Raymond Erith
1968-2003 Erith & Terry studio, from 2003 Quinlan & Francis Terry
Father Quinlan and son Francis (*1969) are also sculptors
Emphasis on the ecological dimension of architecture: Modernist architects create "with the wasteful use of oil and gas ... temporary buildings made of inferior materials that must be regularly replaced and that cannot be recycled." However, we "do not design cars or planes or weapons that have to be replaced every twenty years to keep up with the competition. We design cozy places where people want to live in cities and the countryside." (Designing a Sustainable Future, online, cited 29.2.2008, www.qftarchitects.net/essays/design.html)

Realizations
Richmond Riverside, London, 1984-87 - a collection of houses with offices, apartments, and services, inspired by the Italian Renaissance and Baroque and 18th and 19th-century English architecture
Howard Building Downing College, Cambridge, 1985-89 - lecture hall and auditorium for theatrical and musical performances
Maitland Robinson Library, Downing College, Cambridge, 1990-92 - library, "capriccio" of motifs from buildings on the Athenian Acropolis
Residential House, Frankfurt am Main, 1992-94
- inspired by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. On the European continent, pure stylistic historicism is rarer than in Great Britain and the USA, except for Russia.
Regency Park Villas, London, 1988-2003 - villas for wealthy private clients in various styles according to the pattern of nearby villas from the first half of the 19th century by John Nash
- Gothick Villa, 1989-91 - Palladian floor plan and façade inspired by the "Gothick" Revival of the 18th century (Horace Walpole, James Gibbs)
- Corinthian Villa, 2000-02 - inspired by Borromini and radical Central European Baroque, the first Baroque undulated façade in English architecture, original Corinthian capitals by F. Terry. By the way, in September 1989, the Terry family visited dissidents in Prague with philosopher R. Scruton and were excited about the buildings by Dientzenhofer and Santini.
Juniper Hill, Buckinghamshire, 1999-2002 - rural Palladian residence