Basil Spence


 
 

Sir Basil Urwin Spence, (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976), was a notable Scottish architect, most famously associated with Coventry Cathedral, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.

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Spence was born in Bombay, India but was sent back to Scotland to study. He attended George Watson's College in Edinburgh, then the architecture school of the Edinburgh College of Art, before completing his architectural studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London.

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