1. Eric Owen Parry was born on 24 March 1952 and is a British architect, designer, writer and educator.
17 Facts About Eric Parry
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Eric Parry's built work includes the restoration and renewal of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Holburne Museum in Bath, 50 New Bond Street, 23 Savile Row, One Eagle Place in Piccadilly, Aldermanbury Square by London Wall, 30 Finsbury Square in London, and the London Stock Exchange.
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Later moving to Britain, Eric Parry was educated at Shrewsbury School.
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Eric Parry later registered with the Royal College of Arts, where he obtained his Master of Arts in 1978.
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Eric Parry completed his formal architectural education at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, where he was taught by Dalibor Vesely and Peter Carl, both of whom he would again later encounter while teaching in Cambridge.
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Eric Parry obtained his Diploma in Architecture by the Architectural Association in 1980.
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Eric Parry taught at the Cambridge Department of Architecture from 1983 to 1997, as a Lecturer in architecture.
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Eric Parry was conferred an honorary Master of Arts by the University of Cambridge, and is a member of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
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In 2006, Eric Parry was elected at the Royal Academy of Arts, and in 2012 received the degree of Doctor of Arts Honoris Causa from the University of Bath.
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In 2024 Eric Parry was made a Vice President of the National Churches Trust.
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Eric Parry began his professional life as a Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge from 1983 to 1997.
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Eric Parry founded Eric Parry Architects in London in 1983.
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Eric Parry designed furniture for the Timothy Taylor Gallery, the Timothy Taylor Table, and for the Four Seasons Hotel Spa in Park Lane.
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In 2015, Eric Parry published Context: Architecture and the Genius of Place describing his approach to architecture.
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Eric Parry previously published two monographs on the practice's work, Volume 1 and Volume 2, with texts by Dalibor Vesely and Wilfried Wang.
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Eric Parry has produced two series of short films reflecting on the City of Westminster and the City of London, as well as on the Holburne Museum in Bath, and on the construction of 4 Pancras Square.
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Eric Parry has hosted a series of seminars documented in film with Joseph Rykwert, Dalibor Vesely, Robin Middleton, Peter Carl, Alberto Perez-Gomez and David Leatherbarrow.