Collection: Marcus Whiffen Collection

Description

A collection of circa 1000 negatives taken by Marcus Whiffen for the National Buildings Record during the1940s and early 1950s. Marcus Whiffen was an architectural historian, born in Ross-on-Wye in 1916. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1937 and completed his M.A. at the same university in 1946. From 1937 he worked on the staff of the Architect & Building News and then as the Assistant Editor for the Architectural Review between 1946-1952. In 1952 he emigrated to the USA where he held lecturer positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then at the University of Texas before becoming Architectural Historian at Colonial Williamsburg. In 1960, Professor Whiffen moved to Arizona State University.

As well as his academic work, he served as Director of the Society of Architectural Historians (1969-1971, 1975-1978) and Director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (1963-1968). He died in Phoenix, Arizona in 2002.

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Source: Historic England Archive