Background
SHEPHEARD, Peter was born on November 11, 1913 in Birkenhead. Son of Thomas Faulkner Shepheard, and Catherine Emily Shepheard.
architect town planner and landscape architect
SHEPHEARD, Peter was born on November 11, 1913 in Birkenhead. Son of Thomas Faulkner Shepheard, and Catherine Emily Shepheard.
Birkenhead School, Liverpool School of Architecture.
Assistant to Derek Bridgwater 1937-1940. Royal Ordinance Factories, Ministry of Supply 1940-1943. Technology Officer on Greater London Plan, later on Research and Master Plan, Stevenage New Town, Ministry of Town and Country Planning 1943-1947.
Deputy Chief Architect and Planner, Stevenage Development Corporation 1947-1948.
Private practice (Shepheard Epstein & Hunter) since 1948. Visiting Professor, of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania 1959-1970, Professor, of Architecture and Environmental Design since 1971, Dean 1971-1978, Dean Emeritus since 1979.
President R.l.B.A. 1969-1971. President Architectural Association 1954-1955, Institute of Landscape Architects 1965-1966.
Master, Art Workers Guild 1984.
Fellow, Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 1972, American International Assurance 1973.
Royal Fine Art Commission 1968-1971, Countryside Commission 1968-1971.
Married Mary Bailey in 1943.