Background
FEILDEN, Bernard was born on September 11, 1919 in London. Son of Robert Humphrey Feilden, Medical Corps, and Olive (nee Binyon) Feilden.
FEILDEN, Bernard was born on September 11, 1919 in London. Son of Robert Humphrey Feilden, Medical Corps, and Olive (nee Binyon) Feilden.
He was educated at Bedford School and The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London.
He set up an architectural practice, Feilden+Mawson, with David Mawson in 1956, to which offices in Norwich, London and Cambridge were later added. In 1968 Feilden took over as consultant architect to the University of East Anglia, completing the work of his predecessor Denys Lasdun, and creating an arena shaped square as a social space. His work in Britain encompassed Norwich Cathedral, York Minster, Street Paul"s Cathedral, Hampton Court Palace and Saint Giles" Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Overseas he advised on Jerusalem"s First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Aqsa mosque, the Taj Mahal, the Konark Sun Temple and the Great Wall of China.
He was elected Director of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) in 1977. During his mandate he spearheaded safeguarding measures and disaster recovery of cultural heritage in the wake of the 1976 earthquakes in Guatemala and Friuli (Italy), and the 1979 earthquake in Montenegro.
His 1982 publication, Conservation of Historic Buildings is still an important reference book for architectural conservators. He was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1969, Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1976 and was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in 1985.
He died on 14 November 2008 at the age of 89.
Royal Institute of British Architects Council 1975-1977. Cathedrals Advisory Commission, Churches Conservation Committee since 1981.
Married Ruth Mildred Bainbridge in 1949.