John Melvin
John Melvin trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and at the Department of Town Planning, University College London. He has spent almost the whole of his working life as an architect and town planner in Islington, from first working for the Corporation of the City of London to becoming senior Architect Planner for the London Borough of Islington. John has won many awards for his architecture, including a Royal Fine Arts Commission Building of the Year Award and, in 2010, an award from The Oxford Preservation Trust. For many years, he sat on the Bishop of London’s Diocesan Advisory Committee for the Care of Churches and was Chairman of the Fabric Advisory Committee of Guildford Cathedral. He went into private practice in 1970, practising as John Melvin Town Architects and Town Planners. In 1966 he was awarded the Sargant Fellowship at the British School at Rome. In 1997, a retrospective exhibition of his paintings Remembering Rome was held at The Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture. His work has been widely exhibited in the UK and abroad by the RIBA and the British Council. Other exhibitions have included Etruscan Places, paintings by John Melvin, exhibited at the Architectural Association in 2002 and in the University of St Andrews, 2003; and Roma, an exhibition of paintings by John Melvin in the Stone Gallery in 2003.