Peter Moro
Festival Hall London. Peter Moro was a key figure in the design team for this building.
A talk by DR ALISTAIR FAIR
At The Gallery, and live streamed
Tuesday 26th April, 1900 - 2030
Part of our Post War British Architects series
Peter Moro emigrated from Germany in the late 1930s and spent two years working for Berthold Lubetkin. Briefly interned at the start of the Second World War as an enemy alien, Moro spent the remainder of the war teaching at the Regent Street Polytechnic. Postwar, Moro was a leading figure in the design of London’s Festival Hall. In 1952 he set up in private practice with Peter Moro and Partners. He designed schools and housing for the Greater London Council, and theatres including the Playhouse, Nottingham, and the Theatre Royal Plymouth.
Dr Alistair Fair, FRHistS, is Reader in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh.
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