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Peter Aldington obituary
Architect of modernist houses who combined an attention to materials with a sensitivity to space indoors and out The architect and gardener Peter Aldington, who has died aged 93, had a following and influence out of proportion to the relatively modest quantity of his buildings over a span of little more than 20 years. The relationship between quantity and quality came mainly from a refusal to compromise. His attention to detail and materials, combined with a sensitivity to space indoors and out, imagining how people would live or work, and his stubborn integrity meant that he never accepted second best. This approach did not make for an easy working life and led to him quitting architectural practice at the age of 53. Aldington’s first solo project was a small village house at Askett, Buckinghamshire, commissioned in 1961 by Michael White, a timber specialist whom he had met while on a c
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Peter Aldington obituary, Architect of modernist houses who combined an attention to materials with a sensitivity to space indoors and out The architect and gardener Peter Aldington, who has died aged 93, had a following and influence out of proportion to the relatively modest quantity of his buildings over a span of little more than 20 years. The relationship between quantity and quality came mainly from a refusal to compromise. His attention to detail and materials, combined with a sensitivity to space indoors and out, imagining how people would live or work, and his stubborn integrity meant that he never accepted second best. This approach did not make for an easy working life and led to him quitting architectural practice at the age of 53. Aldington’s first solo project was a small village house at Askett, Buckinghamshire, commissioned in 1961 by Michael White, a timber specialist whom he had met while on a c
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