MJ Long

National Maritime Museum Cornwall Mary Jane Long, Lady Wilson, OBE (July 31, 1939 – September 3, 2018), known as MJ Long, was an American architect, lecturer and author, best known for her work as a principal architect partner on the British Library in London with her husband Sir Sandy Wilson.

[1] She created a series of purpose-built studios for the artists Peter Blake, RB Kitaj, Paul Huxley and Frank Auerbach, later documenting these in a book.

She moved to Montreal, where she attended Westmount High School, graduating first in class in 1956.

MJ Long was commissioned by RIBA to design the National Maritime Museum, Cornwall.

It was at Yale that she met Colin St John Wilson (Sandy), and in 1965 joined his newly formed architecture practice in London.

A photograph of the British Library showing a blue sky and red bricks.
The British Library, London .
Bust in the British Library