The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture

Previous Conferences // 1998: Megaform as Urban Landscape // Speakers

21 - 23 June 1998

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Mary Jane Long

After graduating from Yale University in 1964, Mary Jane Long moved to London where she began her professional association with her husband, Colin St. John Wilson. Since then, she has practised extensively both with St. John Wilson and on her own account, as M.J. Long from 1974 and as Long & Kentish Architects from 1994. In her independent career she has specialized in artist studios and reference libraries, her first major work in this last capacity being her 1996 design for the library of the University of Brighton. Much of her expertise in library design was acquired through her collaboration with St. John Wilson on the design of the British Library (1970-1997) which now replaces the British Museum Library as the national repository. Together with St. Pancras Station, which will shortly become the principal terminal for the Channel Tunnel, this building will have a fundamental impact on the surrounding urban fabric. Currently she is at work on new academic buildings for the University of Brighton and a boat and maritime museum for Falmouth. Since 1973, M.J. Long has served as a visiting studio critic at the School of Architecture at Yale University and has been a holder of the distinguished Bishop Professorship of Architectural Design.

Mary Jane Long

British Library, London, England