Ptolemy Dean
Ptolemy Dean is a British architect who specialises in the repair of historic buildings and the design of new buildings in sensitive sites.
Dean is the son of a judge from the Home Counties. He studied architecture first at the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, then continuing with a post-graduate diploma in architecture from Edinburgh University. He studied under late-modernist Professor Izi Metzestein and was profoundly influenced by his tutor Mike Duriez. After finishing these studies, Dean received ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) funding to document mud adobe structures in New Mexico and Arizona. He then worked for Peter Inskip and Peter Jenkins Architects on a variety of Grade I listed buildings, including Stowe House, Chastleton House and Waddesdon Manor. He has also worked for a selection of Britain's more traditionally infulenced architects: Sir William Whitfield, neo-classicist John Simpson, Sir Frederick Gibberd and Richard Griffiths. At Richard Griffith's, he provided heritage assistance in obtaining planning consent for RHWL architects' post-modern influenced extension to St Pancras Chambers.
He now runs his own small practice, Ptolemy Dean Architects, in the Covent Garden district of London.
He has written and illustrated two books on the 19th century British architect Sir John Soane, and co-written a study of London's Borough Market.
His skills include an ability to produce evocative pen and ink drawings, in a manner inspired by the cartoonist Steve Bell and artist Tony Hart.
He appears with Marianne Suhr as the resident "ruin detective" on the BBC Two television programme Restoration, and presents an architectural travelogue, The Perfect Village, on BBC Four.
His magnificently upper-middle class presentational style has been critiqued by AA Gill in the Sunday Times. See: [1].
Publications
- Ptolemy Dean — Sir John Soane and London (Lund Humphries, 2006) ISBN 0-7546-3926-6
- Ptolemy Dean — Sir John Soane and the Country Estate (Ashgate, 1999) ISBN 1-84014-293-6
- Ptolemy Dean, Sheila Dillon, Henrietta Green and Dominic Murphy — The Borough Market Book: From Roots to Renaissance (Civic Books, 2004) ISBN 1-904104-90-8
See also
Tacita Dean (sister).
External links
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