'Chapters in the varied history of Norwich libraries'. Libraries of lightВ : British public library design in the long 1960s.

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Norwich in the 1960sВ : ten years that altered a city. CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) The conservation movementВ : a history of architectural preservationВ : antiquity to modernity. 'Celebrating a century of Norwich council housing'. 'Norwich Council Housing, 1955-74: David Percival and 'Regional Architectural Tradition ''. '100 facts about Norwich council housing'. Municipal dreamsВ : the rise and fall of council housing. After his wife died in 1987, he married Mauny Wood. They had 5 sonsВ : Richard, Roger, Andrew, Jonathan and Edward. She was the widow of Alan Fay Birley, a pilot officer/observer RAF killed in action in 1942, with whom sheвЂ™d had a child, Michael. In 1944 he married Kathleen Margaret Jenkins in Hendon, Barnet. Дavid attended the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, and qualified as ARIBA in 1938. He was christenedВ David Eyre Percival Driver, but in 1935 at the age of 21 he changed his name by deed poll to David Eyre Percival, as his brother changed his to Michael Percival at the same time. His mother Olive Mary Parkin was an actress. His father, Frank Percival Driver, was a musician, singer and music teacher. Personal life Дavid Eyre Percival was born in 1914 in Marylebone (Westminster) in a British family of artists. OBE of the Order of the British Empire in 1973 for services to architecture. When the Norwich Central Library was opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in 1963, she said вЂњIt is always a very real pleasure to me to visit Norwich, and I am particularly glad that my visit today sees the completion of your Central Library, the fulfilment of many years of careful thought and planning.вЂќ RIBA medal and Civic Trust Award for Norwich Central Library (1963). Д¬ivic Trust Award for 131-133 Rosary Road in Norwich (1960).

Good Design in Housing award from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government for his development at Alderson Place in Norwich (1959).

The Ashbourne and Burleigh Towers (1964).

The Compass Tower (1964), the city's first experiment with eleven-storey tower blocks.

Norwich Central Library (1962), for which he also designed all the furniture, destroyed by fire in 1994.

St Augustine's St Swimming pool (1961), later demolished and replaced by a row of shops.New Housing Group in Rosary Road (1960).Alderson Place (1958), a typically Picturesque integration of human-scale housing and historic context.He then became in 1974 a partner of Edward Skipper, son of George Skipper of Norwich whose practice was founded in 1882, and was able to continue in private practice. He resigned in 1973 under the impact of local reorganisation when the City was due to lose its centuries old independence. Fluent in French, he was active in the Franco Britannique Association of Architects. He also served on the committees of the Royal Institute of British Architects and as President of the City and Borough Architects Society. By the 1970s, Norwich had the highest proportion of council housing of any city in the country. During more than 20 years, he developed a representative range of local authority housing from cottage suburbs to mixed developments to deck-access and high-rise. In 1955 he was appointed City Architect of Norwich, when the City completed its general needs housing programme. He then became Deputy City Architect under Donald Gibson in Coventry. Later as Assistant Chief Architect in East Kilbride (Scotland) he was in charge of planning and contributed to substantial modification of the town master plan. He was involved in the early studies for Cwmbran. He then joined Newport Borough Council Architects Dept in 1947, and later the Ministry of Town and Country Planning in 1948 as Assistant Planning Officer for Wales. David Percival first worked with Kent County Council Architects Dept in 1944.

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