Ted Cullinan - TrustNews July 1991
Winchester College Theatre
The Trust is very fortunate to have Ted Cullinan to speak at the AGM on 21st October. The title of his talk is 'Responsive Modern Architecture'. (See Programme for time and place).
He is an architect well known to Hampshire for his three schools at Fleet, Crookham and Farnborough Grange, for the residence for single homeless people at Basingstoke, and of course for the New Art Centre and Theatre Workshop (right) at Winchester College - all built in the mid-eighties. A Science Park for Southampton University has recently been completed at Chilworth Park.
Ted Cullinan's practice has won numerous awards from the RIBA, Civic Trust and other bodies, for a large variety of building types, which in addition to being innovative and inventive, especially succeed in sensitive and historic surroundings. Current projects include a development of the important site on the south side of St Paul's Cathedral, London; (proposals for this are now on display at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition), a Visitors' Centre for a World Heritage site at Fountains Abbey, and a Theatre complex at Charshalton, Surrey.
Prince Charles has shown considerable interest in the work of Ted Cullinan and in 1988 opened his new Community Care Centre for Lambeth.
Members of the Trust are strongly urged to come and judge for themselves how successfully a skilled modern architect manages to reconcile the latest functional demands of clients with the need to produce humane structures that fit readily into their setting.