About Owen Luder
Harold Owen Luder (7 August 1928 – 8 October 2021) was a British architect who designed a number of notable and sometimes controversial buildings in the United Kingdom in the 1960s and 1970s, many in an uncompromising brutalist design, and many now demolished. He served as chairman of the Architects Registration Board and twice as President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1981–1983 and 1995–1997. He established his own practice Owen Luder Partnership in 1957, and left in 1987 to form the consultancy Communication In Construction. Luder was president of RIBA when Charles III, then Prince of Wales, attacked what he saw as the ugliness of modernism. Luder told colleagues to ignore him and just say "sod you", leading to some critics of brutalist buildings dubbing them "sod you architecture". Some of the Owen Luder Partnership's (OLP) best known buildings are the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, Derwent Tower in Gateshead, and Catford Shopping Centre in London. He set up his own practice, Owen Luder Partnership, in 1957.
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