Eldred Evans OBE (16 June 1937 – 6 November 2022) was a British architect. She and her partner David Shalev worked on more than 150 projects between 1964 and 2008, including Tate St Ives.[1][2][3][4]
Notable projects
edit- Newport High School, 1972 (demolished 2009)[5]
- Truro Crown Court, 1988
- Tate St Ives, 1993
- Quincentenary Library, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1995
Personal
editEvans was born in London to artists Merlyn Evans and Phyllis Sullivan and grew up in South Africa where the family moved when she was a year old.
Evans returned to London to study architecture at the private Architectural Association and studied for a year in Yale with Norman Foster and Richard Rogers.[6]
Evans met the Israeli architect David Shavlev in 1963 and lived and worked together from 1964. Shavlev dies in 2018, and were survived by their daughter Elantra Evans, who also became an architect.
References
edit- ^ Harwood, Elain (February 8, 2023). "Eldred Evans obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ Waite, Richard (January 27, 2023). "Obituary: Tate St Ives architect Eldred Evans (1937-2022)".
- ^ Jenkins, David (3 February 2023). "Eldred Evans, 1937–2022, OBE whose career began with a competition win while still at Yale". www.ribaj.com.
- ^ "Eldred Evans obituary". The Times. 30 March 2023. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ^ "Newport High School, Bettws, Newport". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. March 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
- ^ Jenkins, David (February 2023). "Eldred Evans 1937-2022". RIBA Journal: 71.
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