Noel Moffett
Irish architect and educator (1912–1994)
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William Noel Moffett (25 December 1912 – 17 May 1994) was an Irish architect and educator, active in London and Dublin.[1][2][3]
- Trinity College Dublin
- University of Liverpool, 1938, 1939
Noel Moffett | |
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| Born | 25 December 1912 Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 17 May 1994 (aged 81) London, UK |
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| Occupations | |
| Movement | The White Stag Group |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Thomas Cullen Young (ex-father-in-law) |
Early life and education
Moffett was born 25 December 1912 in Cork to John Moffett, a merchant, and Emily Beatrix Heron (died 1917).[2][4][5][6] Moffett's father was Irish while his mother was British.[4][5] Raised in a Presbyterian family, Moffett was the fifth of seven siblings.[2][4][5]
Educated at Cork Grammar School and Mountjoy School, Moffett later attended Trinity College Dublin.[2] Moffett graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in architecture in 1938, and in urban planning the following year.[1][2]
Career
Between 1938 and 1939, Moffett worked at the office of Serge Chermayeff.[2][3] During this period Moffett worked on Chermayeff's Bentley Wood house.[2][3] Moffett also worked briefly for the offices of Joseph Emberton and the architecture firm Burnet, Tait and Lorne during the late 1930s.[2] Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Moffett returned to Ireland with his wife Margot Moffett.[2][3] Settling in Dublin, Moffett and Margot became involved with The White Stag Group.[3] Moffett redesigned the interior of the Jammet Restaurant around 1940, and began working for the Dublin Corporation in 1941.[1][3]
In 1944, Moffett set up his own architecture company and private architecture school.[1][3] Sometime between 1949 and 1950, Moffett left Dublin and settled in London and began teaching at the Kingston College of Art.[1][2] In 1960, Moffett and his wife Alina Bolesławicz-Moffett founded Noel Moffett and Associates and worked together as architects and architecture consultants.[7][8][9]
Between 1962 and 1970, Moffett was the head of town planning at the Kingston College of Art].[2] During the 1970s and 1980s Moffett was a visiting architecture professor at Iowa University and Washington State University.[2][10][11]
Personal life
In 1938, Moffett married Marguerita "Margot" Catherine Mary Moffett (née Young; born 1916), the daughter of Thomas Cullen Young.[3][12][13] In 1950, he married Simone Combes,[14] and in 1956 to Alina Zofia Bolesławicz-Moffett (née Bolesławicz; 1920–1998)[a], a Polish architect and educator.[15][16] Moffett had one son.[2]