Diana Rowntree
Diana Rowntree (14 May 1915 – 22 August 2008) was a British architect and architectural writer.
Diana Rowntree | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 May 1915 |
| Died | 22 August 2008 (aged 93) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford Architectural Association School of Architecture |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse | Kenneth Rowntree |
| Practice | Jane Drew's firm |
Career and life
After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1939, she joined Jane Drew's architecture practice, that at the time worked on a War Office scheme for faux factories designed to divert enemy bombers.[1]
In the mid-1950s Rowntree took on jobs within architectural press, establishing a position as first architectural writer for The Guardian and acting as news editor for the Architectural Design magazine.[2]
In 1964 she wrote Diana's Interior Design: A Penguin Handbook, called a pioneering work with an emphasis on minimalist rationality by The Guardian post mortem. By the mid-1960s she had resumed her own architectural practice in addition to her writing.
Her husband was painter Kenneth Rowntree, whom she married 1939.[1]
See also
Further reading
- Rowntree D. (1994). Buildlings Face the Future. Corbridge, UK: ARCHITYPE.
References
- MacCarthy, Fiona. "Diana Rowntree. As the Guardian's first architecture writer, she was a fervent believer in the moral potency of design". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
- Rowntree, Diana (1964). Diana's Interior Design: A Penguin Handbook. Middlesex: Penguin Books.