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SIMPSON, John Churchill : Steel in Industry

Iscor News, 1946

Very good in the originazl pictorial portfolio as issued, spinefold defective and torn, the contents clean and bright. Very scarce indeed. John Simpson Churchill (1911-1998) Practised in Durban from 1938 until his retirement from architecture in 1968, Simpson was born in Durban and articled to A Stanley FROST, LRIBA from December 1927 until 1930, studying part-time at the Technical College and registering as an external student at the University of the Witwatersrand. He worked in GE LE SUEUR's office between 1931 and 1934 and was overseas from 1934 to 1938, having won the Emma Smith Travelling Scholarship in June 1934. He went overseas for two years training and spent six months in Italy in 1935, attending Florence University. He later spent two years at the Architectural Association in London in 1935-37. In 1938 he returned to Durban to practice on his own account but in 1939 his practice was interrupted by war. From 1940 until 1944 he was with the Admiralty; after the war he returned to practice, in 1944 rejoining Geoffrey Le Sueur & Partners in Durban where he remained until 1968 working as design partner. Among his buildings, executed as G Le Sueur, in Durban are the Dunlop SA Offices and factory additions in Sydney Rd, Yarningdale and Barcelona on the Marine Parade, the Customs House, Methodist Church in Smith St, University of Natal Library in Pietermaritzburg, Chemistry block at the University of Natal in Durban, the Eagle Building, Smith St and Technical College residences in Manning Rd, Durban. In 1968, his completed decorative mural for the Eagle Life Building in Durban led him to take up painting in a more committed way and, on the encouragement of Everard Read, held several exhibitions. He was responsible for a number of documentary paintings of famous Durban buildings, some of which were reproduced on the Adams's Bookshop calendars.

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