Biography
Shawn Kholucy trained at the Birmingham School of Architecture, then awarded a Lethaby-Plunkett Scholarship by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and a Scholarship by the European Community to study architectural conservation at ICCROM (UNESCO’s conservation institute in Rome).
Worked in the architectural design offices of Nicholas Grimshaw and Donald Insall. Formerly attached to the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem as its surveyor of Islamic monuments engaged in research for the British Academy’s book on Mamluke Jerusalem published by Scorpion Pica in 1987.
Since 1984 he has been a sole-practitioner; an architect working mainly on mediaeval churches for The Churches Conservation Trust, English Heritage and individual parishes with occasional individual domestic and new design work for private clients.
His architectural work has received two craftsmanship awards from the Suffolk Architects’ Association (1990 & 2006), general awards from the Ipswich Society (2001) and English Nature (1999), and The John Betjeman Memorial Award (2006).
He has lectured on architectural matters at ICCROM; Sintra Conservation School; Oxford Brookes University; York University; and at the Architectural Association as well as to and for the SPAB. He currently contributes to the AA conservation course and receives the SPAB Lethaby Scholars and William Morris Fellows and organises didactic events, visits and tours for members of the SPAB.
He has contributed articles to Traditional Homes magazine; the Transactions of ASCHB (Association for the Study of the Conservation of Historic Buildings); SPAB (SPAB News & Cornerstone) and was a co-researcher and co-author of A View of the Cotswolds published in 2004 by The Whittington Press.
He was a trustee of the SPAB from 1987-1996 & from 1998-2004; and of both the Suffolk Preservation and the Bungay Castle Trusts for about ten years. He has served as a member of the SPAB Main and European Committees; the Council for British Archaeology, Historic Buildings Committee; ICOMOS-UK, Earth Committee; and the Council for the Care of Churches, Executive Committee. He was a founder member of EARTHA (East Anglian Earth Buildings Group); and of the Dance Scholarship Trust (funding the SPAB Lethaby Scholarship). He is currently a Guardian of the SPAB.
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Image Gallery
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Title: Silver & Quince
Dimensions: 50 x 35 cms
Media: Pastel on black paper
Description: Providing a fit setting for this silver was Edward Schroeder Prior's brief for his early work, Manor Lodge.
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Title: Small window
Media: English Oak
Description: Classical inside, Gothic outside, with pargetted over-head adornment. The mullion billetting appears to change from a chequered to an alternating billet as one passes the window - a quiet conceit and an optical illusion.
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Title: An artist's studio
Media: Render, glass, polycarbonate, timber & tin.
Description: A studio & gallery in a sensitive historic setting for a ceramicist cum oil-painter.
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Title: Hall stair
Media: English Oak & Sweet Chestnut
Description: In a new polygonal hall to a mediaeval hall-house, this stair of English Oak treads and Sweet Chestnut risers connects the mediaeval and modern floor levels and picks up on forms, symbols and imagery elsewhere in the room.
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Title: New church refreshment & WC facilities
Media: Brick, flint, steel, timber & teflon fabric.
Description: A servery & shop straddling the boundary wall to serve the coastal church and the green, which also contains and conceals the church's WC.
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Title: Strengthening a 14th C flint tower
Media: Gault clay & lime mortar.
Description: Inserting structural ring beams in flint towers is notoriously difficult, and many are ugly. Three made of gault clay tiles were successfully added to this very fragile Suffolk tower. The work was awarded the John Betjeman Memorial Award for church repairs.
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Title: A new villa
Media: Brick, stone, render & tile
Description: The soaring dining hall with crossing galleries provides a dramatically sculptured top-lit central atrium to this modestly sized modern rural villa.
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Title: Plants woman's new house
Media: Brick, render, flint, tile, timber, & glass.
Description: A small butterfly-plan house for a plants woman.
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Title: Rustam Pasha's tiles
Dimensions: 67 x 40 cms
Media: Watercolour on paper (with computer-aided generation)
Description: Isnik tiles of Istanbul's Rustam Pasha mosque reworked for Jerusalem's St. Andrew's (Scottish) Hospice.