Patrick John Nuttgens CBE(March 2, 1930 - March 15, 2004) was an English architect and academic. Events 986 - Louis V becomes King of the Franks. 1127 - Assassination of Charles the Good Year 1930 ( MCMXXX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland
Patrick Nuttgens was raised in Piggotts Hill, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, one of 12 children. See also High Wycombe Western Australia High Wycombe (hai ˈwɪk Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. His father was stained-glass artist Joseph Nuttgens. His mother died when he was 7.
One day, when he was 12 and a student at Ratcliffe College, he walked off the rugby pitch with a terrible pain in his back and, within a day, was paralyzed from the chest down with poliomyelitis. Ratcliffe College is an independent Catholic boarding and day school in Leicestershire, England. Rugby football (usually just " rugby " may refer to a number of sports through history descended from a common form of Football developed at Rugby School Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral Infectious disease spread from person to person primarily via He also suffered from multiple sclerosis, which had left him in a wheelchair since 1985. Multiple sclerosis (abbreviated MS also known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata) is an autoimmune condition in which the
He studied architecture and painting at Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University. The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation Edinburgh College of Art (ECA is an art school in Edinburgh, Scotland, providing Tertiary education in art and design disciplines for over two thousand The University of Edinburgh (Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann founded in 1582 is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He met Bridget Badenoch, an English Literature student at Edinburgh University; they married in 1954. In 1962, he became director of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, then professor of architecture University of York. The University of York is a Campus university in the city of York, England. In 1969, he was appointed as the first director of Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Metropolitan University). Leeds Metropolitan University is a University with two campuses in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
He was awarded honorary doctorates by several universities, and was appointed CBE in 1983. His books include The Story of Architecture, The Art of Learning: a Personal Journey, The Home Front: Housing the People (1840-1990), and The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Architecture.
Patrick and his wife Bridget had nine children, including Giles Nuttgens, the award winning cinematographer. Giles Nuttgens is a British cinematographer and member of the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC