Stillman & Eastwick-Field Partnership British architectural firm
Stillman & Eastwick-Field Partnership (SEF ) was an architects' firm based in London, founded in 1949 by the architects John Stillman and John and Elizabeth Eastwick-Field, a married couple. The firm made notable contributions to Britain's post-war reconstruction, first with schools and, hospitals, later with housing and university accommodation. Much of the firm's output displays a restrained 'New Brutalist' manner with robust detailing in brick and exposed concrete.
Elizabeth Eastwick-Field (née Gee) was born on 21 November 1919, and died on 8 March 2003 aged 83. John Eastwick-Field, OBE, was born on 6 December 1919, and died on 30 March 2003 aged 83. John Stillman was born on 27 May 1920 and died on 19 July 2021 aged 101.
The firm's three founding partners met in 1937 when studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture , University College London .
John Eastwick-Field was a tutor at the Architectural Association School of Architecture from 1946 to 1956, was part of the council there from 1956 to 1958, and was President between 1966–67. He was also on the council of the Royal Institute of British Architects for a decade from 1951.
John Stillman and John Eastwick-Field wrote together the book The Design And Practice of Joinery , first published in 1958.
The architects Terry Farrell and Nicholas Grimshaw met when working at SEF, before setting up in practice together.
Buildings
Lister House on Vallance Road in Tower Hamlets, 1956
Camden School for Girls , London, 1957Hide Tower, a tower block of flats on Regency Street in Westminster, London, 1961
Keele University Students' Union , 1963Mackintosh Hall, a cultural centre in Gibraltar, 1964
LBH Training Centre, Hackney, London, 1964
West of England (Residential) School for the Partially Sighted, Exeter, 1966
Market Harborough, 1966
Trevelyan College , Durham, 1968Clissold School (now Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form ), Hackney, London, 1970
Allington Park, Kent, 1970
Ilfracombe School and Community College Ilfracombe, Devon, 1970Princess Marina Psychiatric Hospital, Northampton, 1972
Witchwood House, Lambeth, 1976
Development of Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield, Middlesex, 1976
Working girls' hostel and day centre in Highbury, London, 1977
Girls school, Gibraltar, 1977
Kingswood Nursery School, Dulwich, 1966 (now demolished and called Dulwich Wood Nursery School) References
1 2 3 "John and Elizabeth Eastwick Field" . www.thetimes.com . 5 May 2003. Retrieved 1 July 2026 .1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 John, Stillman (16 April 2003). "Obituary for John and Elizabeth Eastwick-Field" . The Guardian . Retrieved 7 June 2011 . 1 2 "English Heritage Listing Advice Report (Case UID: 170219)" (PDF) . English Heritage. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 7 June 2011 .1 2 3 4 5 Harwood, Elain (22 August 2021). "John Stillman obituary" . The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 1 July 2026 . ↑ Stillman, John; Eastwick-Field, John (1958). The Design and Practice of Joinery . London: The Architectural Press. ↑ Rigg, Lisa. "RIP: demolition begins before English Heritage decides on listing | Workshops by Stillman Eastwick-Field, Morning Lane |" . www.hackneysociety.org . Retrieved 1 July 2026 . ↑ Stillman, John (24 April 2003). "John Eastwick-Field (1919-2003) Elizabeth Eastwick-Field (1919-2003)" . The Architects’ Journal . Retrieved 1 July 2026 . ↑ "An office in Witchwood House, a low rise block of housing incorporating a day nursery, designed by the architects Stillman, Eastwick Field in 1976 (AA085874) Archive Item - John Gay Collection | Historic England" . historicengland.org.uk . Retrieved 1 July 2026 .↑ Bengtsson, Arvid (1972). Adventure playgrounds 44– 45. ISBN 978-0-258-96835-2 OCLC 610052 .