Michael Wilford
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| Michael Wilford | |
 The Lowry performing and visual arts centre in Salford, England |
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| Personal Information | |
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| Name | Michael Wilford |
| Nationality |  United Kingdom |
| Birth date | 1938 |
| Birth place | Hartfield, East Sussex |
| Work | |
| Practice Name | Stirling/Wilford Partnership (1971-1992) Michael Wilford & Partners (1993-2001) Michael Wilford Architects, UK (2001-present ) Wilford Schupp Architekten, DE (2001-present) |
| Significant Buildings | Lowry Centre |
| Awards and Prizes | Stirling Prize (1997) |
Michael Wilford CBE (b. 1938) is a British architect from Hartfield, East Sussex England. Wilford studied at the Northern Polytechnic School of Architecture, London, from 1955 to 1962, and at the Regent Street Polytechnic Planning School, London, in 1967. In 1960 he joined the practice of James Stirling and in 1971 together established the Stirling/Wilford partnership.
[edit] Buildings
- 2000 The Lowry performing and visual arts centre in Salford, England
- 2000 British Embassy in Berlin
- 1994 Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (University for Art and Music), Stuttgart, Germany
[edit] Awards and Prizes
- 1997 Stirling Prize - Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart, Germany
[edit] External links
- Michael Wilford Official website, UK
- Wilford Schupp Architekten Official website, DE
- Michael Wilford at the archINFORM database
- http://www.britischebotschaft.de/building/wilford.htm
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| Stephen Hodder (1996) • Michael Wilford (1997) • Foster and Partners (1998) • Future Systems/Buro Happold (1999) • Alsop/Störmer (2000) • Wilkinson Eyre/Buro Happold (2001) • Wilkinson Eyre/Gifford (2002) • Herzog & de Meuron (2003) • Foster and Partners/Arup (2004) • EMBT/RMJM (2005) • Richard Rogers (2006) |
