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Margaret Justin Blanco White OBE ARIBA (11 December 1911 – 1 November 2001) was a Scottish architect. [1] Early life and education. Margaret Justin Blanco White was born at 30 Pembroke Square, Kensington, London, on 11 December 1911. Her father was George Rivers Blanco White KC, and her mother was writer Amber Reeves. [2] .
Margaret Justin Blanco White was trained at the Architectural Association where she graduated in 1934. She began her career designing early modern movement housing designs, predominantly in Cambridge and went on to work on pioneering design proposals for housing, educational and community buildings with Mary Crawley and Erno Goldfinger.
Margaret Justin Blanco White [also known as Justin Blanco White and as Margaret Justin Waddington] was born at 30 Pembroke Square, Kensington, London, on 11 December 1911.
- Aiton & Scott
- Elisabeth Scott
- Jane Drew
- Margaret Justin Blanco White
- Jessica Albery
- Mary Medd
Norah Aiton (1904-1989) and Betty Scott (1903-1983) met as students at the Architectural Association during the mid-1920s. They practised together, initially gaining commissions from their families: a house for Betty’s parents and a significant commission from Norah’s father for offices for Aiton & Co in Derby. What they produced for Aiton & Co was...
Elisabeth Scott’s 1927 competition design for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre marked the beginning of a breakthrough for women architects. Unanimously chosen by the assessors as the winning design, Scott proved that 'a girl architect' could win a prestigious large scale public commission, rather than be confined to small domestic projects. After a...
In 1933, Jane Drew was one of the founders of MARS – the Modern Architectural Research Group - formed to support architects working in the modernist movement. Drew’s work was integral to the introduction of Modernism into the UK. Seeing the difficulties women in architecture faced, she opened an initially entirely female practice which took on larg...
In 1931, M.Justin Blanco White was awarded a travelling scholarship and visited Austria, Russia and Germany and in the following year, undertook a study tour of France. She sat the RIBA final exam in July 1934. She married in Cambridge in 1936, and designed housing in the city including the Shawms house - now Grade II* listed. During the Second Wor...
Jessica Albery (1908-1990) studied architecture at her mother's suggestion, who did not expect her to become ‘a serious professional’. After five years of training at the AA, Albery spent six months on building sites in the City of London, observing buildings under construction, including Sir Edwin Cooper’s Royal Mail Office. In the 1930s, she shar...
Mary Medd (1907–2005), believed in the social benefits of Modernist architecture. She took a user-centred approach to school building, believing form and function should be complementary, and could enhance the school experience. Medd was influenced by educational complexes in Scandinavia and America, where Modernist principles were believed to comp...
5 de set. de 2019 · Less well known is Margaret Justin Blanco White, who studied at the Architectural Association between 1929 and 1934. Here she was awarded travelling scholarships that allowed her to visit Austria, Germany, Russia and France.
13 de mar. de 2018 · Margaret Justin Blanco White argued that the architect should work only for the state, and went on to form part of the team that pioneered social survey research at Middlesbrough, and then enjoyed a long career as Superintending Architect at the Scottish Office.
The photograph is accompanied by ten enlarged copies of the image, and some related items of correspondence, including letter to Waddington (in French and German) from Raimund Koci in 1965 gifting him the photograph as a souvenir of Waddington's stay in Brno, a letter from Waddington's widow, Justin Blanco White, sending the photograph to the ...
