George Checkley

George Checkley (19 December 1893 – 17 November 1960) was a New Zealand-born architect and academic, who predominantly worked in the UK. He is known for being among the architects to introduce Modernist buildings to the UK, particularly with two of his houses in Cambridge – the White House (1930–31) and Thurso, now known as Willow House (1932–33). Willow House has been described as "close to being a text-book demonstration of Le Corbusier's architectural principles". After teaching at the University of Cambridge's School of Architecture (1925–34), Checkley successively headed the Schools of Architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic (1934–37) and the University of Nottingham (1937–48), where he also established a School of Town and County Planning.

Early life and education Checkley was born in Akaroa, New Zealand, in 1893,

Checkley was described as a "remarkable teacher"; at Cambridge, and Gordon Graham (1920–97), at both Cambridge and Nottingham. They are among the earliest Le Corbusier-influenced, white, flat-roofed buildings in England, in the style also referred to as the International Style or International Modern. (According to Historic England, the earliest "truly convincing essay in the international style in England" was High and Over in Amersham by Amyas D.) Connell, completed in 1930;