Harold Owen Luder was a British architect who designed a number of notable and sometimes controversial buildings in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s, many now demolished.
11 Facts About Owen Luder
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Owen Luder established his own practice Owen Luder Partnership in 1957, and left in 1987 to form the consultancy Communication In Construction.
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Owen Luder grew up on the Old Kent Road in south London.
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Owen Luder set up his own practice, Owen Luder Partnership, in 1957.
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Owen Luder designed the much-derided Southgate shopping centre in Bath, Somerset, which was demolished in 2007 to make way for a new multimillion-pound development.
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Owen Luder was later given a Rubble Club award for having the best building to be demolished during the architect's lifetime.
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Owen Luder featured in the 2005 BBC Radio 3 broadcast Gateshead Multi-Storey Car Park.
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Owen Luder designed the conversion of a Victorian fire station into the South London Theatre in 1967.
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The OLP built many buildings around South London, where Owen Luder lived for some time, but much wider in the UK.
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Owen Luder is labelled as a brutalist architect but his work is far more extensive, subtle, and influential than that term dictates.
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The Catford Centre, Owen Luder's last surviving town centre of the Tricorn type, was purchased by the local council in 2010 for "regeneration", which may involve demolition of the housing on the site.