Number #37 refers to "A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie from March 2000 for Friends of The Parish of The Ascension Burial Ground, total 49.
An important and prolific architect, but not one who is much sung among the greats of twentieth century building. Unlike most of those who built for the colleges and universities in their great breakout into modernism in the 1950's and after, Roberts was a local practitioner, who also did considerable work in city housing and schooling. He was a Fellow in Architecture at Magdalene College. He executed an extraordinary number of commissions during the 1960's and 1970's and undoubtedly designed more buildings for the Cambridge colleges than did any other architect. After 1964 he was in partnership with Geoffrey Clarke, a distinguished designer not only of buildings but of other artefacta, such as the aluminium entrance gates for Churchill College. Roberts essayed the first non-traditional designs in post-war Cambridge, with his University Health Centre at Fenners, Gresham Road, in 1951. Roberts's earliest college work was at Magdalene (1952-8) where, in Benson and Mallory Courts, he created a small townscape; he refurbished existing houses, and built new infills, to create a street effect, rather than imposing the conventional form of college courtyard. His Castle Hill hostel for Clare College, on Chesterton Lane behind St. Giles Church (1957-8) was a pioneering piece. Again the traditional courtyard was abandoned. Instead he created a single building with an attractive zigzag pattern of diagonals and echelons. Roberts built the Wolfson Flats at Churchill College, for postgraduate students (1968). Sadly this was his least successful work, an unattractive bunker; it was a mistake for Churchill College to abandon its original architect. Roberts had been one of the original competitors to build Churchill College. [Taken from "A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie, Churchill College, March 2000).
An important and prolific architect, but not one who is much sung among the greats of twentieth century building. Unlike most of those who built for the colleges and universities in their great breakout into modernism in the 1950's and after, Roberts was a local practitioner, who also did considerable work in city housing and schooling. He was a Fellow in Architecture at Magdalene College. He executed an extraordinary number of commissions during the 1960's and 1970's and undoubtedly designed more buildings for the Cambridge colleges than did any other architect. After 1964 he was in partnership with Geoffrey Clarke, a distinguished designer not only of buildings but of other artefacta, such as the aluminium entrance gates for Churchill College. Roberts essayed the first non-traditional designs in post-war Cambridge, with his University Health Centre at Fenners, Gresham Road, in 1951. Roberts's earliest college work was at Magdalene (1952-8) where, in Benson and Mallory Courts, he created a small townscape; he refurbished existing houses, and built new infills, to create a street effect, rather than imposing the conventional form of college courtyard. His Castle Hill hostel for Clare College, on Chesterton Lane behind St. Giles Church (1957-8) was a pioneering piece. Again the traditional courtyard was abandoned. Instead he created a single building with an attractive zigzag pattern of diagonals and echelons. Roberts built the Wolfson Flats at Churchill College, for postgraduate students (1968). Sadly this was his least successful work, an unattractive bunker; it was a mistake for Churchill College to abandon its original architect. Roberts had been one of the original competitors to build Churchill College. [Taken from "A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie, Churchill College, March 2000).
Number #37 refers to "A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie from March 2000 for Friends of The Parish of The Ascension Burial Ground, total 49.
An important and prolific architect, but not one who is much sung among the greats of twentieth century building. Unlike most of those who built for the colleges and universities in their great breakout into modernism in the 1950's and after, Roberts was a local practitioner, who also did considerable work in city housing and schooling. He was a Fellow in Architecture at Magdalene College. He executed an extraordinary number of commissions during the 1960's and 1970's and undoubtedly designed more buildings for the Cambridge colleges than did any other architect. After 1964 he was in partnership with Geoffrey Clarke, a distinguished designer not only of buildings but of other artefacta, such as the aluminium entrance gates for Churchill College. Roberts essayed the first non-traditional designs in post-war Cambridge, with his University Health Centre at Fenners, Gresham Road, in 1951. Roberts's earliest college work was at Magdalene (1952-8) where, in Benson and Mallory Courts, he created a small townscape; he refurbished existing houses, and built new infills, to create a street effect, rather than imposing the conventional form of college courtyard. His Castle Hill hostel for Clare College, on Chesterton Lane behind St. Giles Church (1957-8) was a pioneering piece. Again the traditional courtyard was abandoned. Instead he created a single building with an attractive zigzag pattern of diagonals and echelons. Roberts built the Wolfson Flats at Churchill College, for postgraduate students (1968). Sadly this was his least successful work, an unattractive bunker; it was a mistake for Churchill College to abandon its original architect. Roberts had been one of the original competitors to build Churchill College. [Taken from "A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie, Churchill College, March 2000).
An important and prolific architect, but not one who is much sung among the greats of twentieth century building. Unlike most of those who built for the colleges and universities in their great breakout into modernism in the 1950's and after, Roberts was a local practitioner, who also did considerable work in city housing and schooling. He was a Fellow in Architecture at Magdalene College. He executed an extraordinary number of commissions during the 1960's and 1970's and undoubtedly designed more buildings for the Cambridge colleges than did any other architect. After 1964 he was in partnership with Geoffrey Clarke, a distinguished designer not only of buildings but of other artefacta, such as the aluminium entrance gates for Churchill College. Roberts essayed the first non-traditional designs in post-war Cambridge, with his University Health Centre at Fenners, Gresham Road, in 1951. Roberts's earliest college work was at Magdalene (1952-8) where, in Benson and Mallory Courts, he created a small townscape; he refurbished existing houses, and built new infills, to create a street effect, rather than imposing the conventional form of college courtyard. His Castle Hill hostel for Clare College, on Chesterton Lane behind St. Giles Church (1957-8) was a pioneering piece. Again the traditional courtyard was abandoned. Instead he created a single building with an attractive zigzag pattern of diagonals and echelons. Roberts built the Wolfson Flats at Churchill College, for postgraduate students (1968). Sadly this was his least successful work, an unattractive bunker; it was a mistake for Churchill College to abandon its original architect. Roberts had been one of the original competitors to build Churchill College. [Taken from "A Cambridge Necropolis" by Dr. Mark Goldie, Churchill College, March 2000).
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