Diana Rowntree

British architect and writer

Diana Rowntree

Born| (1915-05-14)14 May 1915
Died| 22 August 2008(2008-08-22) (aged 93)
Nationality| British
Alma mater| Somerville College, Oxford
Architectural Association School of Architecture
Occupation| Architect
Spouse| Kenneth Rowntree
Practice| Jane Drew's firm

Diana Rowntree (14 May 1915 – 22 August 2008) was a British architect and architectural writer.

## Career and life

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After graduating from Somerville College, Oxford and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1939, she joined Jane Drew's architecture practice, that at the time worked on a War Office scheme for faux factories designed to divert enemy bombers.[1]

In the mid-1950s Rowntree took on jobs within architectural press, establishing a position as first architectural writer for The Guardian and acting as news editor for the Architectural Design magazine.[2]

In 1964 she wrote Diana's Interior Design: A Penguin Handbook, called a pioneering work with an emphasis on minimalist rationality by The Guardian post mortem.[1] By the mid-1960s she had resumed her own architectural practice in addition to her writing.

Her husband was painter Kenneth Rowntree, whom she married 1939.[1]

## See also

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* Women in architecture

## Further reading

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* Rowntree D. (1994). Buildlings Face the Future. Corbridge, UK: ARCHITYPE.

## References

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1. ^ a b MacCarthy, Fiona. "Diana Rowntree. As the Guardian's first architecture writer, she was a fervent believer in the moral potency of design". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
2. ^ Rowntree, Diana (1964). Diana's Interior Design: A Penguin Handbook. Middlesex: Penguin Books.

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