Hugh Casson

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Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday23 May 1910
Died15 August 1999 (age 89)
Place of birthHampstead, London, England, UK
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Biography

Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson CH KCVO PRA RDI was a British architect. He was also active as an interior designer, as an artist, and as a writer and broadcaster on twentieth-century design. He was the director of architecture for the 1951 Festival of Britain. From 1976 to 1984, he was president of the Royal Academy.