In 1959 he was appointed the Courtauld’s Conway librarian, teaching at the Courtauld and as a visiting lecturer at Cambridge and the University of East Anglia. Bony’s European outlook and interest in structure was unusual in 1950s Britain and inspired Peter’s great love of French Gothic architecture. After the family moved to Kent, Peter went to Dartford grammar school, then won a scholarship to Selwyn College, Cambridge, in 1946, where he studied history and moral sciences.įrom there he went to the Courtauld Institute of Art for postgraduate study, also attending lectures by Jean Bony at the French Institute. Most of his students could not fully understand the regular solids – the basis of the proportional ratios or their numerical equivalents – in the buildings of that period, but all could appreciate the effect they had on planning and structure, which made studying medieval architecture with Peter, always viewed within the intellectual context of its time, especially rewarding.īorn in York, Peter was the son of John Kidson, a merchant navy radio operator, and his wife, Olive (nee Slater).
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