Michael Bunney
Illustration — Bunney in the 1910s • Illustration — 22 Meadway in Hampstead Garden Suburb, designed by Bunney in 1909 Michael Frank Wharlton Bunney (1873–1927) was an English architect who was closely associated with the development of Hampstead Garden Suburb. He was born in Venice where his father, John Wharlton Bunney, was doing watercolours for John Ruskin and was Venice correspondent for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. Bunney went to Fettes College, Edinburgh and then studied at the Architectural Association and Royal Academy Schools.
Also recorded as Michael Frank Wharton Bunney · Michael Frank Wharlton Bunney
Michael Bunney
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- Born
- 1873 · Venice.
- Died
- 1927
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- architect · general contractor
- Fields
- architecture · architectural project · civil engineering
- Honours
- Member of the Order of the British Empire
- Languages
- English
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He was articled to Horace Field between 1890 and 1894, becoming his chief assistant between 1895 and 1902, when he went into practice on his own before partnering with Clifford Makins from 1905. He became ARIBA in 1906 and FRIBA 1919 and co-authored, with Horace Field, English domestic architecture of the XVII and XVIII Centuries (pub 1905, rev. Ed. Bunney & Makins designed ninety houses in Hampstead Garden Suburb between 1909 and 1914. During the First World War he was sent by Raymond Unwin with other Hampstead Garden Suburb architects, to work for the Ministry of Health Architects' Department designing housing and public buildings at the new munitions town of Gretna, Dumfries, for which he was awarded the MBE in 1918. He also undertook town planning and designed a beach pavilion in Prestatyn, Flintshire as well as some individual houses in North Wales.
• English Domestic Architecture of the XVII and XVIII Centuries. George Bell and Sons, London, 1905 & 1928. (With Horace Field)
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- 1.ARIBA application 1906
- 2.Who's Who in Architecture, 1914 p.40
- 3.Miller, Mervyn & A. Stuart Gray. (1992) Hampstead Garden Suburb. Chichester: Phillimore & Co. p. 241.
- 4.Bunney Collection. www.historicengland.org.uk.
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