Chamberlin, Powell and Bon was a British architecture firm active above all in the 1950s and 1960s, best known for the Barbican in the City of London and the campus extension of the University of Leeds. It was founded in 1952 by Geoffry Powell (1920–1999), Peter "Joe" Chamberlin (1919–1978) and Christoph Bon (1921–1999), who taught together at Kingston and had agreed that if any of them won the 1951 competition for the Golden Lane Estate they would form a partnership to build it; Powell won. The firm was strongly influenced by Le Corbusier, and many of its works are now listed buildings. Later partners included Charles Greenberg and Frank Woods, and the practice continued until 1989.
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The Golden Lane Estate (1962) is valued for a planned landscape that sits between the picturesque and the formal. It led to the commission for the neighbouring Barbican Estate (1982), also for the City of London, a job so large that the firm set up a separate company to handle it. Within it stands the Barbican Centre (1982), a brutalist arts centre with a complex multi-level layout, opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
