English architectural partnership formed in 1946 by Philip Powell (b Bedford, 15 March 1921), Michael Powell (1916–71), who left the practice in 1950 to become Assistant Housing Architect at the London County Council, and Hidalgo Moya (b Los Gatos, CA, 5 May 1920; d Sardinia, 3 Aug 1994). Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya both studied at the Architectural Association, London, and then worked for Frederick Gibberd (1943–5); the partnership was established after they won the Pimlico Housing open competition (1946) to rebuild a large area of housing damaged in World War II. Developed in phases (1946–62), the Churchill Gardens estate was the first attempt by a London council to implement pre-war European housing ideas as defined in the County of London Plan (1944), including modern architectural design and planning ideas such as the concept of mixed development. The high-density layout maximizes the riverfront site yet retains a human scale, and the planning and detailing of the flats was to a very high standard. The estate was one of the most successful post-war housing schemes in England, comparing favourably with contemporary developments in pre-war Swedish Classicist and Art Deco styles.

• Powell and Moya
  • staff
    • Gowan, James
  • works
    • Aluminium, §2(i): Architecture
    • Hospital, §1(iii): Architecture, after 1700
    • Oxford, §1(ii): History and urban development, after c 1535
    • Theatre, §III, 4(ii)(a): Western world: 20th-century architecture