| Richard Twentyman | |
| Birth Place: | Bilbrook, Staffordshire, England |
| Alma Mater: | Cambridge University |
| Other Names: | Alfred |
| Nationality: | English |
(Alfred) Richard Twentyman (1903–1979) was an English architect based in Wolverhampton; chiefly known for modernist buildings around the English midlands.
Twentyman was born in 1903 in Bilbrook, Staffordshire. He was educated at Cambridge University where he studied engineering and then architecture at the Architectural Association in London. In 1933 he joined H. E. Lavender in Wolverhampton[1] and formed Lavender and Twentyman.
He served with the Royal Engineers during World War II.
Twentyman was awarded the RIBA bronze medal in 1953 and received a Civic Trust Award in 1970.
He was an accomplished watercolourist and painter in oils, holding an exhibition of his works at a London gallery in 1978. An oil painting by him, Pigeon Loft, Sedgley, is held by Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The gallery held an exhibition of his paintings and drawings after his death.[2]
Twentyman died on 13 December 1979 aged 76.
Nikolaus Pevsner praised his work at Rubery and Redditch. St Chad's Church, Rubery is described as being a fine Modernist example, and his crematorium at Redditch as a model example for that class of building.[3]