RIBA Royal Gold Medal winning architect Edward Cullinan, founder of Cullinan Studio, has passed away aged 88.
Cullinan died in his sleep on Monday 11 November. The architect, who was known as Ted, was awarded the 2008 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in recognition of his "inspirational practice and teaching".
Alongside creating buildings that included the Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre and the Weald and Downland Gridshell, which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2002, Cullinan taught at The Bartlett, Sheffield University, MIT and the University of Edinburgh.
Cullinan Studio designed the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Weald and Downland Gridshell
"The news that Ted Cullinan passed away in his sleep on Monday is hard for us to take in," said a statement from the practice. "The inspirational founder of our practice was a true pathfinder for all architects. Ted was designing for climate change 60 years ago with a holistic vision for the practice of architecture that he described as a social act," it continued.
"His legacy is in the buildings and places he transformed, in his model of architectural practice, but perhaps most powerfully in the thousands of people he taught and inspired throughout his long life. We share our deepest sympathies with his family and all his many friends."
Cullinan studied architecture at Cambridge University, the Architectural Association, and the University of California before joining Denys Lasd...