Stillman & Eastwick-Field Partnership (SEF) was an architects' firm based in London, founded in 1949 by the architects John Stillman and John and Elizabeth Eastwick-Field, a married couple. The firm made notable contributions to Britain's post-war reconstruction, first with schools and, hospitals, later with housing and university accommodation. Much of the firm's output displays a restrained 'New Brutalist' manner with robust detailing in brick and exposed concrete.
Elizabeth Eastwick-Field (née Gee) was born on 21 November 1919, and died on 8 March 2003 aged 83. John Eastwick-Field, OBE, was born on 6 December 1919, and died on 30 March 2003 aged 83. John Stillman was born on 27 May 1920 and died on 19 July 2021 aged 101.
The firm's three founding partners met in 1937 when studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
John Eastwick-Field was a tutor at the Architectural Association School of Architecture from 1946 to 1956, was part of the council there from 1956 to 1958, and was President between 1966–67. He was also on the council of the Royal Institute of British Architects for a decade from 1951.
John Stillman and John Eastwick-Field wrote together the book The Design And Practice of Joinery, first published in 1958.
The architects Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw met when working at SEF, before setting up in practice together.
Buildings
Lister House on Vallance Road in Tower Hamlets, 1956 Camden School for Girls, London, 1957 Hide Tower, a tower block of flats on Regency Street in Westminster, London, 1961 Keele University Students' Union, 1963 Mackintosh Hall, a cultural centre in Gibraltar, 1964 LBH Training Centre, Hackney, London, 1964 West of England (Residential) School for the Partially Sighted, Exeter, 1966 Market Harborough, 1966 Trevelyan College, Durham, 1968 Clissold School (now Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form), Hackney, London, 1970 Allington Park, Kent, 1970 Ilfracombe School and Community College Ilfracombe, Devon, 1970 Princess Marina Psychiatric Hospital, Northampton, 1972 Witchwood House, Lambeth, 1976 Development of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, Middlesex, 1976 Working girls' hostel and day centre in Highbury, London, 1977 Girls school, Gibraltar, 1977 Kingswood Nursery School, Dulwich, 1966 (now demolished and called Dulwich Wood Nursery School)
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