H. T. Cadbury Brown

Henry Thomas CadburyBrown RA was a British architect. He was educated at the Architecture Association where he was influenced by the architecture of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. After graduating he worked for architect Ern Goldfinger and became his lifelong friend. He went on to set up his own successful practice.

CadburyBrown was born at Sarratt in Hertfordshire and boarded at Westminster School. From his childhood he was known as Jim after a family friend who had died in the war. Although there was family pressure for him to join the Navy, friends suggested architecture as he had shown an aptitude for maths and drawing. At the behest of the architect F. R. Yerbury he enrolled into the Architecture Association in 1930, aged 17. His first design projects were quite traditional, but after his introduction to the work of Le Corbusier by a friend his work became much more modern. The German magazine Moderne Bauformen exposed him to German modernism and the work of Walter Gropius. He respected the simplicity of the German designs and their grounding in realism rather than the intectualism of other modernists.

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