Richard Feilden

Richard John Robert Feilden

In 1978 he set up his own architecture practice in Bath, Somerset, with fellow architect Peter Clegg: now Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. The practice specialised in designing and constructing low-energy housing.^[1] He built his own house in Warleigh, Wiltshire.^[2]

He was known to be outspoken, honest and critical of the problems with building design and wider issues, such as global sustainability. He argued that head teachers should be centrally involved in the design of their schools and criticised the mediocrity of school design.^[2] According to architect Sunand Prasad, Feilden's greatest achievement was to form Feilden Clegg into "a modern form of practice that explicitly embraces the collaborative nature of producing architecture."^[1]

In 1998 he became part of Lord Rogers' Urban Task Force^[2] and, in 2000, was appointed to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.^[1]

Feilden was accidentally killed in Warleigh on 3 January 2005, when a tree fell on him while he was clearing a patch of woodland as a memorial to his father,

Feilden married Patricia "Tish" Nielson in 1975. They had three children.[4]

Richard Feilden Foundation

In 2005, the Richard Feilden Foundation was set up in his memory. The charity is a network of professionals, with expertise of the built environment and education sectors who provide skills and transfer knowledge to enhance educational infrastructure across Africa. It partners with like-minded organisations and individuals to collaborate on building education projects in Africa.^[5]

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