13 Facts About Quinlan Terry

John Quinlan Terry CBE was born on 24 July 1937 and is a British architect.

Quinlan Terry was educated at Bryanston School and the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

Quinlan Terry is a well-known representative of New Classical architecture and the favourite architect of King Charles III.

Quinlan Terry has a keen interest in how traditional architecture contributes to the debate on sustainability and has lectured frequently on the subject.

Quinlan Terry continues to practise full time with partner Roger Barrell under the name Quinlan Terry Architects LLP.

The first work by Raymond Erith in which Quinlan Terry had a major role was the new house, Kings Waldenbury, Hertfordshire, completed for the Pilkington family in 1971, when new building in a classical manner was deeply unfashionable with the architectural establishment.

Unusually, all five classical orders of architecture were used and Quinlan Terry has said in lectures that he views classical architecture as an expression of the divine order.

Quinlan Terry is the single most distinguished and prolific architect at work in the Classical tradition in either Britain or the United States.

Quinlan Terry has attempted more completely than any other architect in Britain to pull the rug from beneath the false certainties of Modernism.

In 2003 Quinlan Terry won the Best Modern Classical House 2003, awarded by the British Georgian Group for Ferne House in Wiltshire.

In 2005 Quinlan Terry won the 3rd Annual Driehaus Prize, the most prestigious award for outstanding classical and traditional architects.

Quinlan Terry holds the Philippe Rothier European Prize for the Reconstruction of the City of Archives d'Architecture Moderne.

Quinlan Terry was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to classical architecture.