Christopher Nicholson (1904-1948) was a leading British architect and designer of the early Modern Movement in Britain. His most famous works of the thirties were comparable to the advanced modern style of his older brother Ben Nicholson, OM, (1894-1982). Christopher Nicholson was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, from 1917 to 1922 and then went up to Cambridge University to read Architecture. He then taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture, where one of his pupils was Hugh Casson, and they later went into partnership together. In 1990, the Royal Institute of British Architects Drawings Collection acquired Nicholson's complete collection of drawings, records and photographs. A selection was reproduced in Neil Bingham's book Christopher Nicholson (1996), from the early projects through to his major buildings, such as Augustus John's studio and the London Gliding Club, and his designs in the late 1940s for aeroplane livery and radio and television sets. Nicholson was a gliding enthusiast, and he died in 1948 in a gliding accident at Dunstable.
References
- Nicholson at nationalarchives.gov.uk
- Christopher Nicholson at pricefarmer.com
- Christopher Nicholson - RIBA Drawings Monographs No. 4 by Neil Bingham (Academy Editions, 1996) ISBN 1854904450
- Obituary of Sir Hugh Casson
