ARCHITECT OF THE WEEK: Royston Summers

Royston Summers (1931-2012) was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School. After serving in the Intelligence Corps in Germany, he went to Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English and then Classics. He then trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. He was an architect for Cornwall County Council, and was involved in the New County Hall in Truro. The new library in Saltash was his first solo job. In 1964, he set up his own practice in Blackheath, London, and won a Ministry of Housing and Local Government medal for energy-efficient houses for a group of families using passive solar heating. His low density estate in Surrey won the RIBA Architecture Award in 1976 and the DofE diploma for Good Design in 1980. He designed (unbuilt) 52-storey tower blocks for Brixton, and the first solar heated council flats in Lewisham, which, in 1982, won a CIBS commendation for energy use. For other architect profiles, see: our Directory of Architects and Designers

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