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Peter Hugh Girard Chamberlin CBE RA FRIBA (31 March 1919, London [1] – 23 May 1978, Berkshire [2] ), most commonly known as Joe Chamberlin, was a post-War English architect most famous for his work on the Barbican Estate in London. [3]

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Chamberlin was born on 31 March 1919. He attended Bedford School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector. After the War, he attended Kingston School of Art's School of Architecture, qualifying as an architect in 1948.

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He married Jean Bingham in 1940.[ citation needed ]

He became the dominant force in the architectural partnership of Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, responsible for designing the Barbican Estate in London.

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon was a British firm of architects whose work involved designing the Barbican Estate. They are considered one of the most important modernist architectural firms in post-war England.

Barbican Estate residential estate in the City of London

The Barbican Estate is a residential estate that was built during the 1960s and the 1980s within the City of London in Central London, in an area once devastated by World War II bombings and today densely populated by financial institutions. It contains, or is adjacent to, the Barbican Arts Centre, the Museum of London, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Barbican public library, the City of London School for Girls and a YMCA, forming the Barbican Complex.

In 1963, he was awarded the RIBA Distinction in Town Planning; in 1974, he was made a CBE. In 1975, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, becoming a full RA in 1978, two weeks before his death.

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Chamberlin died on 23 May 1978 before the Barbican Estate was completed.

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  1. ↑ "Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006 - findmypast.co.uk". search.findmypast.co.uk.
  2. ↑ "Search Results for England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007 - findmypast.co.uk". search.findmypast.co.uk.
  3. ↑ "Chamberlin, Peter Hugh Girard, (31 March 1919–23 May 1978), architect and planner in private practice with Geoffrey Powell and Christoph Bon, since 1952 - WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO". doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U153090.

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