Richard Seifert - British Brutalist Architect

The pioneering British modernist architect Richard Seifert was one of the most successful and influential architects of his generation. During the 1960s and ’70s he changed the face and fabric of London with a powerful series of highly visible and uncompromising brutalist buildings, including - most famously - Centre Point, the Nat West Tower and King’s Reach Tower. Seifert is often described as a modernist version of Christopher Wren in terms of his impact upon the capital, building hundreds of towers, office buildings and hotels in London but also working in other parts of the UK and internationally