Born in 1929 and educated at Plymouth Art School, Barrie Dewhurst was a Leverhume Scholar at the Architectural Association (AA) from 1951 to 1956. As part of his final year’s studies in 1955-56, he joined the AA Department of Tropical Architecture, graduating with an AA Diploma with Honours.  He is noted in the AA Diploma Roll Book as having moved to Zambia in 1956-57, gaining experience with Clifford Duke and Partners at Lusaka before moving to the US to complete an MA at Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1959. On his return to the UK, in that year, he was placed first in the Sunday Times competition for an extension to the National Gallery, London, winning £2500 in prize money. In November 1966 it was announced that he had been appointed as the inaugural Project Director of the Ian Buchan Fell Housing Research Centre, at the University of Sydney – a two-year appointment. In August the following year however, Dewhurst was badly injured in a car crash in Italy and resigned his post. By 1974 he was back in the UK and was to later establish a private practice in Farnham, Surrey.

Sources

• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Diploma Roll Book, 1924-1963, AA Archives
• Department of Tropical Architecture, student listing, Otto Koenigsberger Collection, Box OK27, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Members List, 1961.
• Architectural Association Members List, 1974.
• ‘Ian Buchan Fell Housing Research Centre’ University of Sydney. https://archives-search.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/23206   retrieved 13/11/24
• ‘International Educational, Cultural and Related Activities for African Countries South of the Sahara’ United States. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. 1961, p271