{"id":334,"date":"2020-01-29T11:16:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/?post_type=sites&#038;p=334"},"modified":"2020-01-29T11:20:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T15:20:37","slug":"john-newel-lewis","status":"publish","type":"sites","link":"https:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/sites\/john-newel-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"John Newel Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Newel Lewis was born in London in 1920 to an Irish mother and a Welsh father. He worked as an architect in Czechoslovakia and London before migrating to Trinidad in 1953 when he joined the architectural firm of Mence and Moore as a partner. The firm&#8217;s name was subsequently changed to Newel Lewis Broadbridge Associates and after his death NLBA Architects.<\/p>\n<p>Newel Lewis was one of the founder members of Citizens for Conservation and coined the phrase &#8220;George Brown Uprising&#8221; after the organisation&#8217;s first public protest when plans had been made to demolish the &#8220;George Brown House&#8221;, one of the prime examples of Trinidad and Tobago&#8217;s late nineteenth century homes on the Queen&#8217;s Park Savannah. The house was saved and subsequently restored. Newel Lewis promoted the conservation and preservation of Trinidad and Tobago&#8217;s Architectural Heritage until his death in 1991. His sketches and watercolours continue to be an important record of Trinidad and Tobago&#8217;s architecture and landscape. His newspaper cartoons were a very popular form of local &#8220;<em>picong<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>In 1973 Newel Lewis was awarded the Humming Bird (Gold) medal for his contribution to Trinidad and Tobago in the field of architecture. Included in his publications are:\u00a0<em>Nobody in his right mind<\/em>\u00a0(on the history of Carnival in Trinidad);<em>Ajoupa\/Architecture of the Caribbean<\/em>;\u00a0<em>Killarney Stollmeyer&#8217;s Castle<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Watercolours of the Caribbean<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_336\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-336 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/killarney-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Killarney Stollmeyer&#8217;s Castle<br \/>John Newel Lewis<br \/>Aquarela Galleries 1988<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Newel Lewis was born in London in 1920 to an Irish mother and a Welsh father. He worked as an architect in Czechoslovakia and London before migrating to Trinidad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"site_type":[31],"class_list":["post-334","sites","type-sites","status-publish","hentry","site_type-published-works"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sites\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sites"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sites"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"site_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforconservationtt.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site_type?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}