Architects' Co-Partnership

The Architects' Co-Partnership (ACP) was a firm of English architects, founded in 1939 as the Architects' Cooperative Partnership by recent graduates of the Architectural Association School of Architecture.^[1][2][3] It encouraged teamwork, and set out to be a practice in which all members would be equal.^[1][2]

Dunelm House, Durham, 1966 by Richard Raines and Michael Powers of the Architects' Co-Partnership

The firm filed for insolvency in 2014, and finally dissolved in 2018.^[4]

Notable buildings

Its notable buildings include:

• Brynmawr rubber factory (Michael Powers, 1946–52, with Ove Arup), the first post-war building to receive listed status^[1][5]
• Danegrove Primary School (1949–50)^[6]
• Dunelm House, Durham (Richard Raines and Michael Powers, 1966)^[7]
• "Beehives", St John's College, Oxford (Michael Powers, 1958–60), the first modern student accommodation at the University of Oxford^[8]
• St Paul's Cathedral School, London (Leo de Syllas and Michael Powers, 1962–7)^[9]
• University of Essex, Colchester (Kenneth Capon, 1964)^[10]
• Wolfson Building, Trinity College, Cambridge (1968–72)^[11]
• Levi Strauss & Co. UK HQ and distribution centre, Northampton (1999)^[12]

References

1. "Architects' Co-Partnership". A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Oxford University Press.
2. Powers, Alan (5 Feb 2009). "Obituary: Michael Grice". The Guardian.
3. Ward, Colin; Goodway, David (2003). Talking Anarchy. PM Press. p. 11. ISBN 9781604869057.
4. "Architects' Co-Partnership 1939 - 2018". Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950.
5. Cadw. "Former Boiler House at Dunlop Semtex Factory (Grade II*) (1869)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
6. Historic England. "Danegrove School (Grade II) (1064765)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
7. Historic England. "Dunelm House including landing stage, steps and attached walls (Grade II) (1477064)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
8. Historic England. "St John's College, The Beehives (Grade II) (1278860)". National Heritage List for England.
9. Historic England. "St Paul's Cathedral Choir School (Grade II*) (1391842)". National Heritage List for England.
10. Kucharek, Jan-Carlos. "University of Essex". RIBA Journal Magazine. Royal Institute of British Architects. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
11. Colin, Westwood (1972). "Wolfson Building, Trinity College, Cambridge: the south elevation". RIBAPix. Royal Institute of British Architects.
12. "Jean technology". Architects' Journal. 29 July 1999.