June Park (architect)
(Hilary) June Park (1920–2018)[1][2] was a British architect and author known for her contributions to post-war modernist architecture and architectural writing. She worked independently and in partnership with her second husband, Cyril Mardall.
Early life and education
[edit]June Park was born in Hampstead,[3] the daughter of the renowned British portrait photographers Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory.[1] From 1938 she studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where she was taught by influential figures such as Felix Samuely and Frederick Gibberd.[2]
Life and career
[edit]After graduating, Park worked in the offices of Frederick Gibberd and Edward Mills, and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1944. In 1945 she established her own architectural practice. Her early works in the modernist style included a private house in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire (1947)[4]; two cottages for agricultural workers near Harlow and Roydon, Essex (1948)[5]; and the conversion of two houses for the Finnish Legation in Belgravia, London (1949). She also collaborated with the firm Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall (YRM) on the design of Barclay Secondary School in Stevenage (1947).[6]
In 1951 June Park designed a new house at 7 Fitzroy Park, Highgate, London, for herself and her husband, Cyril Mardall, as well as a slightly smaller house (7a) adjacent, for her mother-in-law.[7][8] Both were concrete framed with brick infill but have since been altered. She also designed the sauna in the basement of the Finnish Seamen's Mission and Church, London, designed by Cyril Mardall in 1958.[9] In the 1970s and 1980s June Park and Cyril Mardall worked in partnership on residential projects in the West Indies and Ireland.[6]
Publications
[edit]June Park authored two books on modernist residential architecture:
Personal life
[edit]June Park's first husband was David Francis Rivers Bosanquet. On 17 January 1947 she married Cyril Mardall (formerly Sjöström), a Finnish-born British architect and co-founder of Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall (YRM). They had one son and one daughter and lived In London. June Mardall died in 2018.[12]
Sources
[edit]- ^ a b "(Hilary) June Mardall (née Park, later Bosanquet) (1920-2018)". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Carullo, Valeria (4 March 2020). "At home with house designer June Park". The RIBA Journal.
- ^ Mardall, June, National Life Story Collection: Architects' Lives, Part 1 of 10. British Library. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ "House at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, seen from the west". RIBApix. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ^ "Agricultural workers' cottages designed by June Park" (PDF). The Architects' Journal. 107 (2766): 149–150. 12 February 1948.
- ^ a b "Park, Hilary June 1920 - 2018". AHRnet: Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ^ "June Park's house, Highgate, London: the garden elevation". RIBApix. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ^ Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002-01-01). London: North. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09653-8.
- ^ Hatherley, Owen (8 February 2024). "In Surrey Quays". London Review of Books. 46 (3).
- ^ Park, June (1958). Houses and Bungalows. Batsford.
- ^ Park, June (1971). Houses for Today. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-0655-9.
- ^ Baker, Anne Pimlott (22 September 2011). "Mardall, Cyril Leonard Sjöström (1909–1994), architect". www.oxforddnb.com. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55126. Retrieved 2025-07-25.
- 1920 births
- 2018 deaths
- Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture
- Associates of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Architects from London
- English architecture writers
- English women architects
- Modernist architects from the United Kingdom
- People from Hampstead
- Writers from the London Borough of Camden