Mary Medd
Mary Beaumont Medd (née Crowley, 4 August 1907 - 6 June 2005) was a British architect, known for public buildings including schools.[1] Medd was the first architect to be employed by Hertfordshire county council.[2] Together with her husband David Leslie Medd (1917–2009), she joined a team of architects commissioned to build schools in Hertfordshire after World War II. Together, the Medds became leading school designers in England and Wales.[3]
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| Born | Mary Beaumont Crowley 4 August 1907 |
| Died | 6 June 2005 (aged 97) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Bedales School |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Hertfordshire county Ministry of Education |
She was the daughter of Ralph Henry Crowley (1869–1953), who worked as Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Education.[4] After education at home, she spent one year at an experimental school run by Isabel Fry, and then was at Bedales School from 1921 to 1926.[5]
As Mary Crowley, working with Cecil George Kemp, she designed three houses at 102, 104 and 106 Orchard Road, Tewin, Hertfordshire, in 1935–36.[6]
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C467/29) with Mary Medd in 1998 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.[7]
References
- Walker, Lynne; Saint, Andrew (24 June 2005). "Mary Medd, Obituary". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- Walker, Lynne; Saint, Andrew (2005-06-23). "Obituary: Mary Medd". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- Harwood, Elain (27 April 2009). "David Medd: Architect who revolutionised school design". The Independent. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- Catherine Burke,About looking: vision, transformation, and the education of the eye in discourses of school renewal past and present, British Educational Research Journal Vol. 36, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 65–82, at p. 66. Published by: Wiley on behalf of BERA JSTOR 27823587
- Catherine Burke,About looking: vision, transformation, and the education of the eye in discourses of school renewal past and present, British Educational Research Journal Vol. 36, No. 1 (February 2010), pp. 65–82, at p. 80 note 10 and p. 68. Published by: Wiley on behalf of BERA JSTOR 27823587
- Gould, Jeremy (1977). Modern houses in Britain, 1919-1939. Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. p. 45.
- National Life Stories, 'Medd, Mary (1 of 11) National Life Stories Collection: Architects' Lives', The British Library Board, 1998. Retrieved 10 April 2018
Further reading
- Burke, Catherine (2013). A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-4094-7190-5.
- Gould, Jeremy (1977), Modern houses in Britain, 1919-1939, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
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