Peter Yates (architect)

Peter Yates nominated and successfully campaigned for Berthold Lubetkin to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, 1982

Peter married his second wife Gillian Jessica Eden in 1976. Gillian died in 2015.

Peter Yates curated an exhibition of Le Corbusier Lithographs at the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull in 1976

One man exhibitions: 1975 Ultramarinos, Colbert Gallery, Durham 1976 England! Colbert Gallery, London 1978 England 2, Downstairs Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 1979 Central Sea Paintings of the Mediterranean, Downstairs Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 1982 Paris! Pen Gallery, Blackheath, London 1982 The Lakes Bridge House Gallery, Coniston 1982 Cyclops Rock, Paintings of England, France, Spain, Italy and Greece Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne 1983 Peter Yates Retrospective, Durham Light Infantry, Durham 1985 England, France and Cyclops Rock, RIBA, London 2010 Peter Yates British Landscapes, Margaret Howell, London 2015 Peter Yates Paintings 1939-1982, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Peter Yates married musician Helen Maud Southgate from New Zealand in 1958 and had five children. Helen died in 1972.

In 1953, after a chance meeting in London, Peter Yates moved to Newcastle upon Tyne to form an architectural practice with Gordon Ryder. Initial work included exhibition design and soon progressed onto a series of private domestic architectural commissions. A new multidisciplinary approach which included engineers fuelled their progress. Their buildings were highly regarded. Large scale commissions for industrial complexes for British Gas, Sterling Organics and others followed. Social projects in Newcastle and Sunderland for the Salvation Army, a large social housing project in Kenton as well as various local government and healthcare projects. Ryder and Yates' extensive portfolio of acclaimed buildings won numerous architectural awards over the following three decades from their inception in 1953.

Peter Yates returned to Paris in 1950 as Chief Designer at Unité d’Informations Visuelles, a commercial art studio located in the Old Alhambra night club in the gardens of the Champs Élysées. From here, he contributed to exhibitions across Europe. These included Europa Zug and Atoms for Peace. (Here, Peter collaborated with Pierre Boucher (photographer) [fr] from whom Ryder and Yates later commissioned murals for Norgas House, Killingworth).

Masterplan for Peterlee new town with Berthold Lubetkin in 1948 (where Peter Yates first met Gordon Ryder).

Pyramid Project for the New Crystal Palace with Clive Entwhistle at Ove Arup's office, Soho 1947.

Group exhibitions: Whitechapel Art Gallery (1942, 1943) The Essex Art Club (1944, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49) Royal Academy (1943) Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours / Royal Watercolour Society (1943, 1944, 1946, 1982) Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead Royal Institute of British Architects (1946) Durham Images. Colbert Gallery, Durham Wallsend Arts Centre Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne RIBA NE Reinvigorating the Region (2010)

Peter Yates served as a fireman on the St Paul's Watch in early 1941, during which he painted Wren's churches during the London Blitz. He met the antiquary and architectural historian, Gerald Cobb, while drawing in Ludgate Circus and they became lifelong friends. Peter joined the RAF in July 1941 and was stationed in Wales and Ireland before going to Versailles in 1944 with the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces.

Peter worked as a furniture and model maker during 1937 before attending the London Polytechnic School of Architecture, studying under Sir Hubert Bennett, Peter Moro and Robin Day from January 1938 to April 1941.

Peter Yates (19 July 1920 – 16 November 1982) was a British born artist and architect. Yates was best known for his partnership with Gordon Ryder in the North of England architectural firm, Ryder and Yates.

Peter Yates was born in Leytonstone, East London in 1920. He was attracted to the visual arts at an early age, winning a painting competition in Chicks' Own in 1925. Whilst at Wanstead School from September 1934 to July 1936, he painted a mural, Events at Sea.