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Categories: Royal Academicians, 20th-century Scottish architects, Architects from Edinburgh, Knights Bachelor, British Army personnel of World War II
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Basil Spence  Basil, Sir Spence  Basil Spence Sir  Basil Urwin Spence  Sir Basil Spence
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Sir Basil Urwin Spence, was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style. Wikipedia
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Sir Basil Urwin Spence, was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style. Wikipedia
Scottish architect Wikidata
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Royal Designer for Industry
Order of Merit
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom
EDUCATED AT
Edinburgh College of Art
George Watson's College
FAMILY NAME
Spence
GIVEN NAME
Basil
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
Museum of Modern Art
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Academy
MOVEMENT
Brutalist architecture
NOTABLE WORK
Beehive
Coventry Cathedral
OCCUPATION
architect
PLACE OF BIRTH
Mumbai
PLACE OF BURIAL
Suffolk
PLACE OF DEATH
Yaxley
SEX OR GENDER
male
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Basil Spence
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Basil Spence
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Basil Urwin Spence, Sir Basil Spence, Sir Basil Urwin Spence
Wikidata Alias
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Basil, Sir Spence, Basil Spence Sir, Basil Urwin Spence, Sir Basil Spence, Sir Basil Urwin Spence, Sir Spence

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