Two Letters from Percy E. Newton to John Summerson
1993; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 36; Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1568589
ISSN2059-5670
AutoresNeil Bingham, Percy E. Newton,
Tópico(s)Architecture, Modernity, and Design
ResumoThe following letters were written to John Summerson by the architect Percy Ernest Newton in 1948. Summerson first met Newton in or about 1922, the year in which Summerson left school and entered the degree course at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. In the same year, Summerson joined the Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club, which at that time occupied 6 Bedford Square. Several notable architects were members of the club, including Halsey Ricardo and F. C. Eden. Newton was a resident member, an accomplished pianist and frequent performer at the musical evenings. Summerson remembered him as a neat, private, and rather cross-looking man. But Newton was a great talker, always ready to gossip about the past, and in Summerson he found a good listener.
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