Noel Moffett
Noel Moffett | |
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| Born | 25 December 1912 Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 17 May 1994 (aged 81) London, UK |
| Education |
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| Occupations | |
| Movement | The White Stag Group |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Thomas Cullen Young (ex-father-in-law) |
William Noel Moffett (25 December 1912 – 17 May 1994) was an Irish architect and educator, active in London and Dublin.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
Moffett was born 25 December 1912 in Cork to John Moffett, a merchant, and Emily Beatrix Heron (died 1917).[2][4][5][6] Moffett's father was Irish while his mother was British.[4][5] Raised in a Presbyterian family, Moffett was the fifth of seven siblings.[2][4][5]
Educated at Cork Grammar School and Mountjoy School, Moffett later attended Trinity College Dublin.[2] Moffett graduated from the University of Liverpool with a degree in architecture in 1938, and in urban planning the following year.[1][2]
Career
Between 1938 and 1939, Moffett worked at the office of Serge Chermayeff.[2][3] During this period Moffett worked on Chermayeff's Bentley Wood house.[2][3] Moffett also worked briefly for the offices of Joseph Emberton and the architecture firm Burnet, Tait and Lorne during the late 1930s.[2] Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Moffett returned to Ireland with his wife Margot Moffett.[2][3] Settling in Dublin, Moffett and Margot became involved with The White Stag Group.[3] Moffett redesigned the interior of the Jammet Restaurant around 1940, and began working for the Dublin Corporation in 1941.[1][3]
In 1944, Moffett set up his own architecture company and private architecture school.[1][3] Sometime between 1949 and 1950, Moffett left Dublin and settled in London and began teaching at the Kingston College of Art.[1][2] In 1960, Moffett and his wife Alina Bolesławicz-Moffett founded Noel Moffett and Associates and worked together as architects and architecture consultants.[7][8][9]
Between 1962 and 1970, Moffett was the head of town planning at the Kingston College of Art].[2] During the 1970s and 1980s Moffett was a visiting architecture professor at Iowa University and Washington State University.[2][10][11]
Personal life
In 1938, Moffett married Marguerita "Margot" Catherine Mary Moffett (née Young; born 1916), the daughter of Thomas Cullen Young.[3][12][13] In 1950, he married Simone Combes,[14] and in 1956 to Alina Zofia Bolesławicz-Moffett (née Bolesławicz; 1920–1998)[a], a Polish architect and educator.[15][16] Moffett had one son.[2]
Notes
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Restless Pencil". Exhibitions; Past Exhibitions. Dublin: Irish Architectural Archive. Retrieved 1 January 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Sharp, Dennis (20 May 1994). "Obituary: Noel Moffett". The Independent. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kennedy, S.B. (2005). "Biographical Notes of Principal White Stag Artists and Those Associated With Them". The White Stag Group. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art. pp. 149–154. ISBN 1903811503. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Residents of 4 Coppingerstang". Census of Ireland 1911; Cork; Blackrock; Coppingerstang; House Number 4. Dublin, Ireland: National Archives of Ireland. 1911. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Moffett Household". Census of Ireland 1926; Cork; Cork Number 3 Urban (North East Ward); Wellington Road. Dublin, Ireland: National Archives of Ireland. 1926. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "Emily Beatrix Moffett [Death Index]". Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes 1845–1958. 5 (Q1): 127. 1917.
- ↑ London Metropolitan Archives. "Pitsea Street Estate, 1969". Layers of London. Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
- 1 2 Bolesławicz, Alina; Moffett, Noel (June 1989). "POLAND GLASNOST FOR DESIGN". Landscape Architecture Magazine. 79 (5): 30–31. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "Flats for Old People on the White City Estate". Official Architecture and Planning. 7 (27): 808–810. July 1964. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ Moulton, Kirsten (26 January 1981). "One year later UI's Iranians are scattered around the world". Lewiston Morning Tribune. Lewiston, Idaho. p. 13. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "Mobile homes are architect's challenge". Lewiston Morning Tribune. Lewiston, Idaho. 12 November 1980. p. 12E. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "William N Moffett and Marguerita C M Young". England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. 1a (Q2). London, UK: General Register Office: 119. 1939.
- ↑ Forster, Peter G. (2003). T. Cullen Young: Missionary and Anthropologist. Kachere Monograph no.18 (2 ed.). Blantyre, Malawi: Christian Literature Association in Malawi. ISBN 9990816646. Retrieved 6 June 2026.
- ↑ "William N Moffett and Simone E Combes". England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. 5d (Q1). London, UK: General Register Office: 387. 1950.
- ↑ "William N Moffett and Alina Z Boleslawicz [Bolesławicz]". England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. 5e (Q4). London, UK: General Register Office: 888. 1956.
- ↑ "Alina Zofia Bolesławicz-Moffett". Pamięci Architektów Polskich (in Polish). Warsaw, Poland: Association of Polish Architects; Izba Architektów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. 17 February 2023. Retrieved 6 June 2026.