Peter Stead (architect)

Peter Stead (1922–1999) was an English architect. He was awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects and given the Distinguished Flying Cross.[1]

Background

Stead's family had been engaged in building for several generations. In the early 1950s he and his firm Law Stead were engaged in constructing the modernist house designed by Peter Womersley at Farnley Hey.[2] Later in the decade he worked with Stephen Gilbert on experimental construction designs.[3]

Stead was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in 1963-4.[4]

During the 1970s Stead was a founder of the Centre for Alternatives in Urban Development[4] and wrote a book on "Self-build housing groups and co-operatives: ideas in practice".[5]

An archive of Stead's work is held by the Art Gallery in his home town, Huddersfield.[6]

gollark: If your factory is told to make 100K units of winter clothing of any kind they will probably just go for the simplest/easiest one, even if it isn't very useful to have 100K winter coats (extra small) (plain white). Now, you could say "but in capitalism they'll just make the cheapest one", but companies are directly subservient to what consumers actually want and can't get away with that.
gollark: That is why we have the "legal system"./
gollark: With a government.
gollark: Sure they can. Just apply penalties/taxes if you pollute stuff.
gollark: > Tell factories to produce 100K units of winter clothing and give them free choice of a variety of different accepted models.But then you don't know how much stuff each factory will need.

References
  1. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jan/05/guardianobituaries3
  2. Dale, Sharon (24 May 2014). "Design of the times". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  3. Westley, Hester (24 January 2007). "Stephen Gilbert". The Independent. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  4. Built Environment (1978-). Alexandrine Press (subscription required). pp. 199–200. JSTOR 23284600.
  5. "Self-build housing groups and co-operatives : ideas in practice". OCLC WorldCat. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  6. "Exhibition with Liadin Cooke - April 17 to June 19". Kirklees Council. 5 March 2010. Archived from the original on 7 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
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