Hector Corfiato

Notre Dame de France interior

Hector Othon Corfiato (1892 - 1963) was a French architect. He was professor of architecture and director, at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London from 1946–59, and professor emeritus from 1960.

Corfiato graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and established the firm of Corfiato, Thomson & Partners.^[1]

From 1953 to 1955 he was the architect responsible for rebuilding Notre Dame de France, a French Catholic church on Leicester Place in London's Soho, which was grade II listed in 1998.^[2]

His nationality is disputed, "Some alumni claim he was Greek, others Egyptian, while an Architects' Journal article describes him as a ’relatively unknown French architect’. "^[3]

In 2006, his St William of York Roman Catholic church in Stanmore, designed in 1959, was grade II listed.^[4]

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