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Emberton, Joseph
(b Audley, Staffs, 23 Dec 1889; d London, 20 Nov 1956). English architect. He was articled to Chapman and Snape and studied at evening classes at Burslem Art School near Stoke-on-Trent, before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, London, in 1911. While working as an assistant to Trehearne and Norman, he met Thomas Tait, whose partnership with J. J. Burnet Emberton he joined after service in World War I. Tait’s style influenced his early work (in partnership with P. J. Westwood (1878–1958), 1922–6). They designed kiosks for the British Empire exhibition at Wembley, London (1924), and Summit House (1925), Red Lion Square, London. Emberton visited the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris in 1925 and was one of the earliest English architects to work in the Art Deco style (e.g. shopfronts for Lotus and Delta shoes, c. 1927; see Ind, pl. 38). His unified scheme for the Advertising Exhibition (1927), Olympia, London, was a notable step towards high-quality exhibition design, and he added a streamlined façade to the Olympia Exhibition Hall in 1930.
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