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Basil Spence was an architect who designed many buildings in the UK and beyond in the Modernist/ Brutalist style.

He was born in India and was educated in Edinburgh at George Watson’s College between 1919 and 1925.  He has been credited as being involved with the design of several famous buildings including the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral after it was destroyed by bombing during the second world war.  Other notable buildings include, the British Embassy in Rome, Edinburgh University Library, Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks in London as well as St Andrew’s Church Clermiston.