Jack Howe (architect)

Howe was born in Enfield, Middlesex on 24 February 1911, and was a butcher's son. He attended Enfield Grammar School[1] and studied architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic.[2]

Howe worked for Joseph Emberton, and from 1934 onwards for Maxwell Fry, where he worked on Impington Village College and the Westminster Electricity Showroom in Regent Street.[1] Following Walter Gropius's move to the United States in 1937, Howe oversaw the construction of Impington Village College.[2] At the outbreak of the World War II, he worked with Holland, Hannen & Cubitts for the Royal Ordnance factories at Wrexham and Ranskill.[1] He then joined Arcon in 1944 as associate partner, and worked on the design of the Mark 4 prefabricated house,[2] of which 41,000 were later built.[1] He set up his own practice after the end of the war,[2] and designed Highbury Quadrant Primary School and housing at Windmill House, Lambeth, among other buildings, for the London County Council.[1] He worked on the Kodak pavilion at the Brussels World Fair in 1958 and the British Pavilion at the British Trade Fair in Moscow in 1961.[2]

Howe had his first industrial design commission in 1946 from Gent & Co Ltd.,[3] and moved gradually into industrial design from the 1950s onwards.[1] Among his clients were Chubb, for whom he designed the Chubb cash dispenser MD2, which won him the 1969 Duke of Edinburgh's Prize for Elegant Design,[3] Associated Electrical Industries,[1] Thermos, Morphy Richards and Heals.[2]

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