Respected Architecture Academic David Dunster Dies at 73
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David Dunster, the inspiring and influential teacher of architecture, has died at the age of 73.Dunster was the Roscoe Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool from 1995 to 2010, when he retired. He was the Head of the Department till 2000. H
Respected Architecture Academic David Dunster Dies at 73
David Dunster, the inspiring and influential teacher of architecture, has died at the age of 73.Dunster was the Roscoe Professor of Architecture at the University of Liverpool from 1995 to 2010, when he retired. He was the Head of the Department till 2000. He is remembered with deep affection and regards from his former students — four of them at the Bartlett are the founders of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Another of his student, Farshid Moussavi, is the architect and Harvard chair.According to the Guardian, Paul Monaghan, one of Dunster’s former students at Bartlett, also the Founding Director, said, “Simon, Jonathan, Peter, and I were very sad to hear this news. David was our tutor at the Bartlett, and a long-time mentor and friend of the practice. He was a great influence on our lives and one of the people who inspired us to set up in practice in the late 1980s. We will miss him.”Dunster was respected for implementing group work for student design projects. Like, in Bartlett, he designated areas of London and invited his students to select a site each and develop their own program for it. He then invited non-architect to express their opinion on the work of the students.David Dunster was born in Kent in 1945 and studied architecture at the Bartlett, UCL, before becoming a lecturer at the institution for nine years. In the 1970s, he joined the architecture firm Dex Harrison Pollard and taught part-time at the Canterbury School of Art and at Kingston School of Art. Dunster was a good teacher and a strong critic of traditionalism. He always encouraged students to think outside the box. He recognized intellectual content in both modernism and post-modernism. He always challenged certainties and introduced unfamiliar ideas to his students, such as those of Italian architect Aldo Rossi. After his criticism of the 1988 film, “HRH The Prince of Wales: A Vision of Britain,” he received many hate mails.Dunster underwent liver transplant in 1998, after which he became occasionally ill. Before Christmas 2018, he again became sick and, in January 2019, succumbed. He is survived by his wife Charlotte Myhrum and son Arthur.https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more
