14 Facts About Roger Westman

Roger Ulick Branch Westman was a British architect.

Roger Westman is best known for his designs of council housing in London.

Roger Westman began his career at Lambeth council's architecture planning department.

Roger Westman worked with Edward Hollamby and Rosemary Stjernstedt on Central Hill Estate, a social housing estate completed in 1974.

Roger Westman designed a large number of homes in Hampstead, Hampstead Garden Suburb, and Highgate.

Roger Westman was an early proponent of sustainable architecture in large-scale building projects.

Roger Westman wrote an article on sustainable architecture in 1982 for the Architects' Journal.

Roger Westman gave guest lectures on architectural history at the AA, Cambridge, Oxford Brookes and Bath until 1999.

Between June and July 1981, Roger Westman exhibited his scheme 'Walls: A Framework for Communal Anarchy' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Roger Westman's exhibition received positive reviews in The Times and the London Evening Standard.

Roger Westman used his hands-on artistic ability to great effect in designing and creating sets at opera houses and theatres including the Royal Opera House, London Coliseum, and the National Theatre.

Roger Westman married Jula, daughter of lawyer and diplomat Rudolf Rabl, in 1965.

Roger Westman was a maternal cousin of Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset and a great-great-grandson of soldier and poet Sir Edward Christopher Richard Ulick Branch KCMG CBE.

Roger Westman was a friend of his tutor John Summerson until Summerson's death in 1992.