Ptolemy Dean
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Ptolemy Dean is a British architect who specialises in the repair of historic buildings and the design of new buildings in sensitive sites.
After leaving Edinburgh University, Ptolemy Dean won an ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) scholarship to document mud adobe structures in New Mexico and Arizona. He then worked for Peter Inskip and Peter Jenkins Architects on a variety of Grade I listed buildings, including Stowe House, Chastleton House and Waddesdon Manor.
He now runs his own practice, Ptolemy Dean Architects, in the Covent Garden district of London.
He has written two books on the 19th century British architect Sir John Soane, and co-written a study of London's Borough Market.
His skills include an ability to produce evocative pen and ink drawings, in a manner inspired by the illustrator Jak and artist Tony Hart.
He appears with Marianne Suhr as the resident "ruin detective" on the BBC Two television programme Restoration, and presents an architectural travelogue, The Perfect Village, on BBC Four.
His magnificently upper-middle class presentational style has been critiqued by AA Gill in the Sunday Times. See: [1]
[edit] Publications
- Ptolemy Dean — Sir John Soane and London (Lund Humphries, 2006) ISBN 0-7546-3926-6
- Ptolemy Dean — Sir John Soane and the Country Estate (Ashgate, 1999) ISBN 1-84014-293-6
- Ptolemy Dean, Sheila Dillon, Henrietta Green and Dominic Murphy — The Borough Market Book: From Roots to Renaissance (Civic Books, 2004) ISBN 1-904104-90-8
[edit] External links
- Ptolemy Dean Architects website
- Ptolemy Dean at the Internet Movie Database
- [2]
- Marianne and Ptolemy from the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings
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