Patrick Nuttgens
Patrick John Nuttgens CBE (2 March 1930 – 15 March 2004) was an English architect and academic. Life. Nuttgens was born on 2 March 1930 the fourth of five children of Kathleen Mary ("née" Clarke) and Jozef Edward Nuttgens, his father was a stained-glass artist. His mother died when he was seven years old. His father remarried and had eight more children, the eldest of whom was named Joseph Ambrose and became a stained glass designer himself. One day, when Patrick was 12 years old, and a student at Ratcliffe College, he walked off the rugby pitch with  a terrible pain in his back and, within a day, was paralysed from the chest down with poliomyelitis. He was hospitalised for nearly two years while he recuperated. He studied architecture and painting at Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh. He met Bridget Badenoch, an English literature student at the University of Edinburgh; the couple married in 1954. In 1962, he became director of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies at the University of York, and later became Professor of Architecture there. In 1969, he was appointed first director of Leeds Polytechnic (later Leeds Metropolitan University, now  Leeds Beckett University). Nuttgens was Hoffman Wood Professor of Architecture at the University of Leeds from 1968 to 1970 and again from 1984 to 1985. He was awarded honorary doctorates by several universities including Heriot-Watt in 1990 and was appointed CBE in 1983. His books include "The Story of Architecture", "The Art of Learning: a Personal Journey", "The Home Front: Housing the People (1840–1990)," "York... the Continuing City" (illustrated by Dr John Shannon), "Leeds: The Back to Front, Inside-out, Upside-down City" (1979) and "The Mitchell Beazley Pocket Guide to Architecture". Over the years, Nuttgens wrote and presented  television programmes on architecture and appearing as a panellist on radio programmes such as the "Round Britain Quiz" and "Any Questions?" In his mid-fifties, he experienced worsening disability mistakenly diagnosed as multiple sclerosis now ascribed to post-polio syndrome. He was in a wheelchair from 1985. He died in 2004. Nuttgens and his wife Bridget had nine children, including the composer Sandy Nuttgens and the Green Party politician and broadcaster Peg Alexander.