Bernard Feilden
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Sir Bernard Feilden, CBE, FRIBA (11 September 1919 - 14 November 2008) was a conservation architect whose work encompassed cathedrals, the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal.
Feilden was born in Hampstead, London. He was educated at Bedford School and The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London.
He joined the practice of Edward Boardman and Son in Norwich, where he designed the Trinity United Reformed Church. He started his own practice in Norwich with David Mawson in 1954. To which were added offices in London, Cambridge and Prague. In 1968 Feilden took over as consultant architect to the University of East Anglia, completing the work of his predecessor Denys Lasdun, and creating an arena shaped square as a social space.[1]
His work in Britain encompassed Norwich Cathedral, York Minster, St Paul's Cathedral, Hampton Court Palace and St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. Overseas he advised on Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, the Taj Mahal, the Konark Sun Temple and the Great Wall of China.
He was elected Director of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) in 1977. During his mandate he spearheaded safeguarding measures and disaster recovery of cultural heritage in the wake of the 1976 earthquakes in Guatemala and Friuli (Italy), and the 1979 earthquake in Montenegro.[2]
His 1982 publication, Conservation of Historic Buildings is still an important reference book for architectural conservators.
In 1986 Feilden was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his work on the Al-Aqsa mosque's dome. He was appointed OBE in 1969, CBE in 1976 and was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in 1985.
He died on 14 November 2008 at the age of 89.
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- ^ Muthesius, Stefan (2000). The Postwar University: Utopianist Campus and College. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 149. ISBN 0333087179.
- ^ "From Rome Centre to ICCROM: Milestones on the Path of the International Centre". ICCROM Newsletter (Rome: ICCROM) 35: 4. October 2009. ISSN 1010-2639. http://www.iccrom.org/pdf/ICCROM_newsl35-2009_en.pdf. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
