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Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) was a Russian emigré architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s.

Sustaining his architectural practice Tecton he designed landmark buildings like a Highpoint apartments in Highgate, the penguin pool at London Zoo and Finsbury Health Centre.

Around 1949 he resigned from a post of designer at Peterlee new town and retired to Gloucestershire. His girl Louise Kehoe published the memoir of his life within 1995.

Tecton members
Douglas Bailey Anthony Chitty Lindsay Drake Michael Dugdale Valentine Harding Denys Lasdun Godfrey Samuel Francis Skinner

Associated with Lubetkin
Ove Arup Marcel Breuer Wells Coates

Lubetkin, Berthold (1901-1990)
Brief summary of the work of the Russian architect who moved to England in 1930, and whose most popular work was at London Zoo. From Great Buildings Online.




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