TIM MOSTYN

Tim studied architecture at the Oxford School of Architecture and at the Canterbury College of Art. He gained the Diploma in Architecture from Canterbury in 1973 and became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1978. After college, he moved from Canterbury to live at 50, Cranley Mews, in South Kensington, with his young family and elderly mother, working with small practices in London, drawing up designs and details for a project of new low cost apartments in Wandsworth for the London Mosque Authority, and for a project in Amsterdam for a developer, converting a large warehouse into apartments overlooking a canal. In 1975, his wife's mother asked him to build a house within the grounds of her property near La Garde Freinet in France, and a year later to design extensions to La Mente, her own house overlooking the picturesque Cork, Oak and Chestnut forests of the Massif des Maures... During the economic depression in the early 1970's, when the British economy relied..

Primary location: Wrexham United Kingdom