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George Checkley

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New Zealand architect and teacher, 1893-1960, active in England

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According to Wikipedia, George Checkley was a New Zealand-born architect and academic, who predominantly worked in the UK. He is known for being among the architects to introduce Modernist buildings to the UK, particularly with two of his houses in Cambridge – the White House and Thurso, now known as Willow House . Willow House has been described as "close to being a text-book demonstration of Le Corbusier's architectural principles". After teaching at the University of Cambridge's School of Architecture , Checkley successively headed the Schools of Architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic and the University of Nottingham , where he also established a School of Town and County Planning.

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