Influential architectural collaboration of architects based in Britain (1932 - 1939)
Tecton Group
The Highpoint II apartment building designed by the group
Practice information
Key architects
Berthold Lubetkin, Francis Skinner, Denys Lasdun, Godfrey Samuel, Lindsay Drake
Founded
1932
Dissolved
1939
Significant works and honors
Buildings
Highpoint Towers, Finsbury Health Centre
The Tecton Group was a radical architectural group co-founded by Berthold Lubetkin, Francis Skinner, Denys Lasdun, Michael Dugdale, Anthony Chitty, Val Harding, Godfrey Samuel, and Lindsay Drake in 1932 and disbanded in 1939.[1][2] The group was one of the leaders in bringing continental modernism to Britain.
Tecton is short for architecton, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων 'master builder, architect'.[3]
^Searing, Helen (2004). "Lasdun, (Sir) Denys 1914-2001". In Sennott, R. Stephen (ed.). Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture. Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis. p. 754. ISBN 1579582435.
^Wilson, Andrew (2020). "The Tecton Group and Architects' Group: Residues of Collective Practice". In Wyatt, Victoria Jackson; Leach, Andrew; Stickells, Lee (eds.). Proceedings of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(PDF). Vol. 36. Sydney: SAHANZ. pp. 430–440.
^Tom Wilkinson, Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made, 2014, ISBN 1620406314, p. 283; incorrectly translated as 'architecture'
The TectonGroup was a radical architectural group co-founded by Berthold Lubetkin, Francis Skinner, Denys Lasdun, Michael Dugdale, Anthony Chitty, Val...
other buildings designed by the architect Berthold Lubetkin and the TectonGroup. The zoo went into receivership in 1977 and was purchased by Dudley Metropolitan...
first substantial building completed to a design by Lubetkin's firm, TectonGroup, and the firm's first building at London Zoo. It was designated as a...
64 Heath Drive, Gidea Park, London, designed by Francis Skinner of TectonGroup. Cholmeley Lodge (apartments), Highgate, London, designed by Guy Morgan...
Bailey, Francis Skinner and Berthold Lubetkin, the successors to the TectonGroup, and was completed in 1962. The nearby Dorset Estate was also designed...
One such house, No. 64 Heath Drive, by Berthold Lubetkin's TectonGroup architectural group, was the special responsibility of Francis Skinner and is now...
Drive, by Francis Skinner, a founding member of Berthold Lubetkin's TectonGroup, was also listed at Grade II in 1997. Thomas Cooke, a Yorkshireman who...
Hampstead. In London he set up the architectural practice Tecton. The first projects of Tecton included landmark buildings for London Zoo, the Gorilla House...
the influential MARS Group from England was represented. In 1935 MARS member Berthold Lubetkin and his practice, the TectonGroup completed Highpoint in...
Early – Spa Green Estate in London, designed by Berthold Lubetkin of the TectonGroup with Ove Arup & Partners. August 20 – Las Lajas Shrine in Colombia, begun...
Finsbury Health Centre, London, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and the TectonGroup. Metropolitan Water Board Laboratories, London, designed by Howard Robertson...
Kingdom: A striking example of Ove Arup's vision for 'total design'". Arup Group. Retrieved 5 April 2024. Wood, Betty. "Lubetkin's legacy: 5 seminal projects...
Stokes (1858–1925) Walter Tapper (1861–1935) Thomas S. Tait (1882–1954) TectonGroup (founded 1932) Sir Alfred Brumwell Thomas (1868–1948) Sir Percy Thomas...
1938–1939 by the German architect Friedrich "Fritz" Abraham Ruhemann and the TectonGroup architect Michael Dugdale for Leo Neumann, like Ruhemann a recent immigrant...
Pillars was built by architect Valentine Harding, who was working for TectonGroup. The company also built Highpoint I and the penguin enclosure at London...
commissioned the modernist house Overshot built by Samuel and Harding of the TectonGroup in Oxford. It was his family home to which he returned between foreign...
worked under Cecil Wood. In England, he worked for Brian O'Rorke and the TectonGroup. After returning to Christchurch, he went into partnership with Wood...
team of Skinner Bailey & Lubetkin, the successor to Berthold Lubetkin's TectonGroup. The Cranbrook estate was the last and the largest of the three housing...
House London Zoo NW1 Concrete-framed building Berthold Lubetkin and the TectonGroup with Ove Arup 1932–3 14 Sep 1970 TQ2809483571 51°32′11″N 0°09′16″W /...
immediate postwar period by the Tecton architecture practice, led by Berthold Lubetkin. Following the dissolution of Tecton, the project was realised by...
members of architectural groupTecton, by Ove Arup and by John Betjeman, a poet and contributor to Architectural Review. In 1936, Tecton members William Tatton...
Russia. The genus is only represented by its type species, Ennatosaurus tecton, which was named in 1956 by Ivan Antonovich Efremov. The species is known...
Evans J.A. (1999). "The Skiddaw Group (English Lake District) reviewed: early Palaeozoic sedimentation and tectonism at the northern margin of Avalonia"...
solely designed by Arup. He then worked as a structural consultant to the Tecton partnership, notably on the Penguin Pool at London's Regent's Park Zoo,...
1934 to work in the Haymarket office of the radical architectural practice Tecton, founded by Berthold Lubetkin, where he worked on the Penguin Pool at London...
with Casea nicholsi, followed by Euromycter rutenus, then Ennatosaurus tecton, then Angelosaurus romeri, then an apical clade of the three Cotylorhynchus...
Sidney R.; Bowring, Samuel A. (1 December 2013). "A Linkage Among Pangean Tectonism, Cyclic Alluviation, Climate Change, and Biologic Turnover in the Late...
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