Ted Cullinan
Edward Horder Cullinan HonFRIAS was an English architect.
Life
Born in central London to Joy, an artist mother, and Edward, a doctor, Cullinan was educated at Ampleforth College, Queens' College, Cambridge, the Architectural Association, where he was in an intake of students under Sir Frederick Gibberd who went on to make a significant contribution to post-war design and architecture in the UK; Sir Philip Dowson, Richard Burton, Ray Leigh, Sir Colin [St John Wilson] and Julian Keable. Roderick Gradidge and Michael Blower were also his contemporaries. After the AA, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley before working for Denys Lasdun where he designed the student residences for the University of East Anglia.Cullinan founded his own practice in 1959. The employee-owned business, Cullinan Studio, was founded in 1965. Notable projects include the Charles Cryer Theatre, Carshalton, the Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre, the Centre for Mathematical Sciences , the Weald and Downland Gridshell and the new library at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
Cullinan was a visiting professor at the University of Nottingham, and was awarded four other professorships at The Bartlett, Sheffield University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Edinburgh.
Cullinan was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1987 New Year Honours. In 2008, he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 2010.
National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview with Edward Cullinan in 2010 for its Architects Lives' collection held by the British Library.
Cullinan married Rosalind Yeates in 1961, and the couple built their own house in Camden Mews, London, by hand. They had three children: Emma, Kate and Tom.