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Amyas Connell was New Zealand born architect, who practiced as a partner in architects practice [[Connell, Ward & Lucas]] which was highly influential in UK house building during the 1930s . He was the architect behind the wonderful [['High & Over']], a [['Moderne' Houses| Moderne house]] masterpiece in Amersham Buckinghamshire, famous for being in [[Homes Used In Poirot Episodes| various Poirot episodes]]. He designed [['High & Over']] for Brian Ashmole, then Yates Professor of Archaeology at the University of London. Connell had met Ashmole in Rome three years earlier - when Ashmole was director of the British School there and Connell was a Rome scholar. In designing [['High & Over']] he drew on the recent ground-breaking work of the French architect, Le Corbusier, to create a novel variation on the English country house. <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3314399/The-century-makers-1929.html</ref>. | [[File:AmyrasConnell.jpg|200px|right| Amyas Connell]]Amyas Connell was New Zealand born architect, who practiced as a partner in architects practice [[Connell, Ward & Lucas]] which was highly influential in UK house building during the 1930s . He was the architect behind the wonderful [['High & Over']], a [['Moderne' Houses| Moderne house]] masterpiece in Amersham Buckinghamshire, famous for being in [[Homes Used In Poirot Episodes| various Poirot episodes]]. He designed [['High & Over']] for Brian Ashmole, then Yates Professor of Archaeology at the University of London. Connell had met Ashmole in Rome three years earlier - when Ashmole was director of the British School there and Connell was a Rome scholar. In designing [['High & Over']] he drew on the recent ground-breaking work of the French architect, Le Corbusier, to create a novel variation on the English country house. <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3314399/The-century-makers-1929.html</ref>. | ||
==Connell's Houses== | |||
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File:Highandover.jpg| High & Over is a Grade II listed [['Moderne' Houses|'Moderne']] [[Detached]] house in Amersham, Buckinghamshire. | |||
File:Amyas-Connell-New-Farm-Grayswood-UK-1933.png| New Farm, Grayswood, Haslemere 1933 | |||
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==See Also In Chimni== | ==See Also In Chimni== | ||
Latest revision as of 17:31, 5 June 2017
Amyas Connell was New Zealand born architect, who practiced as a partner in architects practice Connell, Ward & Lucas which was highly influential in UK house building during the 1930s . He was the architect behind the wonderful 'High & Over', a Moderne house masterpiece in Amersham Buckinghamshire, famous for being in various Poirot episodes. He designed 'High & Over' for Brian Ashmole, then Yates Professor of Archaeology at the University of London. Connell had met Ashmole in Rome three years earlier - when Ashmole was director of the British School there and Connell was a Rome scholar. In designing 'High & Over' he drew on the recent ground-breaking work of the French architect, Le Corbusier, to create a novel variation on the English country house. <ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/3314399/The-century-makers-1929.html</ref>.
Connell's Houses[edit]
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New Farm, Grayswood, Haslemere 1933
See Also In Chimni[edit]
ChimniWiki 'High & Over'
Chimni Wiki Homes Used In Poirot Episodes
ChimniWiki Is My House 'Art Deco'?
Other Interesting Web Sites[edit]
A web page dedicated to Connell, Ward & Lucas' Houses in Ruislip
Modernist Britain - a beautiful site celebrating the best buildings of the era
Books We Liked[edit]
References[edit]
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